I have an IQAir monitor, but their whole system seems like a PurpleAir copycat. Right now, most of the data on their maps comes from PurpleAir sensors, and it's likely that it's PurpleAir that doesn't care for that.
That said, IQAir is kind of crazy to me. They launched a new dashboard which has a "view as TV dashboard" button, but doesn't let you click it unless you upgrade your plan. The local data access situation is also unclear to me; I bought the sensor after reading that it has a Samba server, but it requires the indoor monitor to display the password to you. I opened a support case to get the password for local analysis, but am beginning to feel like they're not going to give it to me. (Who wouldn't want an indoor air quality monitor? Well I already have one. I've cared about indoor air quality forever, but after wondering for two days why the sky was a weird shade of yellow, I wanted to keep an eye on outdoor air quality as well.)
In that case, it will be UART time. It's definitely Linux running an out-of-date unpatched Samba. Won't be at all difficult to get my data, I'm guessing. The question is... why do they think there's money in a cloud service that shows you dashboards of your own data? They should be bending over backwards to accommodate anyone that wants to contribute to their public site; they are way behind PurpleAir there.
TL;DR I'm certain that PurpleAir is the unnamed company in this article. IQAir is too new to be relevant in the space.
This comment saved me from just ordering a IQAir outdoor monitor. Great timing. I'd like an outdoor unit that supports PoE (which the IQAir monitor has) because I'm definitely not going around replacing batteries all the time, but that seems hard to come by, so I might have to give up my attempts at measuring air pollution from the side of my house.
jrockway|2 years ago
That said, IQAir is kind of crazy to me. They launched a new dashboard which has a "view as TV dashboard" button, but doesn't let you click it unless you upgrade your plan. The local data access situation is also unclear to me; I bought the sensor after reading that it has a Samba server, but it requires the indoor monitor to display the password to you. I opened a support case to get the password for local analysis, but am beginning to feel like they're not going to give it to me. (Who wouldn't want an indoor air quality monitor? Well I already have one. I've cared about indoor air quality forever, but after wondering for two days why the sky was a weird shade of yellow, I wanted to keep an eye on outdoor air quality as well.)
In that case, it will be UART time. It's definitely Linux running an out-of-date unpatched Samba. Won't be at all difficult to get my data, I'm guessing. The question is... why do they think there's money in a cloud service that shows you dashboards of your own data? They should be bending over backwards to accommodate anyone that wants to contribute to their public site; they are way behind PurpleAir there.
TL;DR I'm certain that PurpleAir is the unnamed company in this article. IQAir is too new to be relevant in the space.
tedeh|2 years ago