ClearAir

A minimalist, DIY PurpleAir clone (by shanet)

ClearAir reviews and mentions

Posts with mentions or reviews of ClearAir. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Wildfire Smoke in Northeastern US Visible on Goes East Images
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jun 2023
    I don't have one personally but I did some research into their hardware when making a DIY clone a few years ago: https://github.com/shanet/clearair

    The EPA published a paper calibrating the sensors PurpleAir uses with their much more expensive sensors and found it was fairly close after applying a correction factor. https://github.com/shanet/ClearAir/blob/master/docs/PurpleAi...

  • Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2022
    They do! Although they require a correction factor to better match the government's fancy air quality monitors when measuring smoke. The EPA published a paper on it: https://github.com/shanet/ClearAir/blob/master/docs/PurpleAi...

    While we're on the topic: Shamless plug for a PurpleAir clone I made last year that uses the same sensors but at half the cost: https://github.com/shanet/ClearAir and https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/adafruit-industri...

Stats

Basic ClearAir repo stats
2
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10.0
over 2 years ago

shanet/ClearAir is an open source project licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of ClearAir is C.


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