“A nice project, with a bit of learning to customise the Enviro code for your needs. Mine is based off of the Luftdatten example with a different one from Github which allows you to pump the data out to a Google Sheet in addition. The PM sensor is nice and small, seems to be effective at monitoring PM levels.”
“Plugged everything in and started following instructions from the website. Got the software installed pretty easy, and was able to run the example files. Works great, with relatively easy to follow instructions to get you started”
“This is a very nice board with a lot of sensors, but the software support is not so good. I eventually got a Grafana dashboard working in Fahrenheit (I'm in the US) and showing particles per liter of air because the mass-based measurements aren't sensitive enough in my very clean HEPA-filtered environment. That required adding code to the Python enviroplus_exporter.py to support the particles-per-liter, and designing a new Grafana chart. I probably would not have succeeded at this if I wasn't a professional software expert and Python guru. The bare drivers provided by Pimoroni don't let you use this without writing your own code or adapting existing github projects, none of which worked, or did what I wanted out of the box. It's complicated working with this many sensors. I recommend the enviroplus_exporter.py on the Pi that has the hat, and the poorly documented prometheus time-series database, feeding one of the Grafana dashboards. If you want to see all the sensors, it's that or roll your own visualization. My setup is newer than the stuff I based it on, but I haven't posted it to my github account yet. I'm eh at eirikur dot net.
My best,
Eirikur”
