“Nice little device, The temperature compensation works too hard and shows 15 deg when it's 25.
Google Coral Environmental Sensor shows much more reliable values for temperature reading than this little guy so maybe it's worth looking into how they achieved it. It would be also great to have the libraries for the sound level included, but hopefully it'll come soon.
In general great little board, easy to setup and run.”
“I built this with a pi zero w and the pibow case for the zero w, everything fits nicely. The connector for the PM sensor was very easy on the Enviro+ end - with a nice click into place, but a bit fiddly on the PM sensor end - and I didnt want to push too hard so be careful. Once a clean build of Raspbian is installed and updated, installation was very quick and simple with the all-in-one example doing everything I wanted. Im looking forward to the further tutorial and case for installation, I think the intention is for outdoor monitoring? Pimoroni - if your listening - a quick guide on levels to expect from the sensors would be nice, after a fair few searches on the open internet, its still not clear what approximates normal for PM and GAS. All in all, a superb kit.”
“Really cool little device.
I was able to get it running within only a few minutes of it arriving with the included parts and the available Python libraries.
I also set it up with Luftdaten.
My only wish is that there was a library for pushing this data to a database. I'm running a Influx DB/Grafana setup on a different Pi for monitoring a number of things and would love to add this historical data to that DB.
Something like what balena.io is doing. https://www.balena.io/blog/build-an-environment-and-air-quality-monitor-with-raspberry-pi/#hardwarerequired
Bottom line this is a great little machine and I look forward to having it around for a while doing cool things.”
