Air-1 - most feature packed Air Sensor I've seen

It's not as tiny as MSR-1, but Air-1 from Apollo Automation is PACKED with so many sensors. But is it worth getting it despite the price? We'll look into it in this video!

Apollo Automation Air-1:

Apollo Automation MSR-1:

Link to Documentation:

00:00 - Intro
00:31 - About this video
00:50 - Apollo Automation Air-1 specs
03:54 - Connecting to device and web UI
06:00 - Air-1 sensor in Home Assistant
07:17 - Air quality data in Home Assistant
09:24 - Ideas for automation
10:31 - Documentation for Air.1
11:03 - What's wrong with it?
12:24 - Final thoughts

Simon Says interview:

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[ApolloAutomation]

Andrej, what a wonderful review! We truly value your HA knowledge and look forward to hearing from your community! Please let us know if there are any questions!

Best,
Justin
Apollo Automation

[jerryaycock]

I love all my Apollo Automation sensors. AIR-1 is front and center in my home. I highly reccomend all the line.

[aaajp]

Yet another Fantastic video and review. Thanks John

[yestrdave]

I’ve had one for couple months, so far so good.

[starecmirec]

Thanks for the review. It’s good to have an alternative to the currently used Airthings Wave+. Even though it doesn’t have a radon sensor like Airthings, it’s cheaper. Is the fan used only for PM measurement, or are all the gases actively measured? Even if the fan doesn’t directly feed all gas sensors, thanks to the air circulation, it should be more responsive than ‘passive’ sensors without a fan. I think I love this sensor as well 😉

[TubeCramu]

I wonder which of the sensors are best to detect the smell after the restroom has been in use. Methane or just VOC?

I'm also interested in the power usage if the Air-1 is fully equipped. Would it be possible to power the device for a few days by using a power bank?

[FrankGraffagnino]

it would be useful if someone made a collection of alert automations that alert when any of those sensed values are at a warning level. If you wanted to set that up yourself, it sounds like you would need to go sensor by sensor and go research what are safe and warning levels of each measurement. Might save folks some time (not just for this sensor, but any of them in HA that measure any of the particular values that are in the automation table).

[galasitygaming]

How do you get those wonderful graphs on the dashboard?

[TommyBrenner]

Funnily enough, I'm currently making my own multi-sensor based on the SEN55. I've also added the SCD30 for CO₂ and the DPS310 for pressure measurement. I'm at the final stage of case design, but I'm still looking for/at a good way to implement CO₂ calibration with ESPHome (I'm still kind of a novice when it comes to programming etc.).

[Saturn]

Is IKEA's Air Quality sensor bad? I own two and mainly use them as a Zigbee repeater.

I just started Zigbee 2 weeks ago, and if they're not good, I can return them.

[galasitygaming]

$150 for all of those sensors is a great price

[mauriceatkinson]

it does look good but expensive. However, if it allowed me to replace the smoke alarms in all my rooms and also had a battery option I would buy several.

[Airbag]

It would be really interesting to see how accurate these sensors are compared to calibrated industrial sensors.. Some of them work well in a specific range then go off target by a lot outside.. so yeah given the price it's hard to go for it without some level of assurance of the accuracy over the whole detectable range if that makes sense

[denton]

I just ordered an airGradient like a week ago....

[bastian]

Well there was a Dutch store that sold it for 152 euro including 21% VAT with free shipping but they have no stock. this will be 185 euro because they are too lazy? to arrange it properly I guess. (21% VAT + 13 euro). It is quite interesting for the 152 euro price though, the sensors are not cheap. although I recently managed to find a CO2 sensor that is not smart but has a SCD30 co2 sensor board soldered in I can use again on an ESP32, for only 30 euro.... (had to buy it as 60 euro for 2)

[CarlMoebis]

lol, I wonder what caused those methane spikes?

[zyghom]

"no money was exchanged" - what an euphemism ;-)

[BlackPhilosopher]

I bet if you just calculate retail price for all sensors and ESP - it will be ~100 EUR.

[EricPenn]

This is an Ad. Sorry... Loosing interest in this Bye.

[piotr.wozniak]

I ve made better from basic ikea sensor for less. I put inside temp hum presence luminance and asg10 sensor. It costed half of this price or less. And I know how to do it, how to customize it as I want in the future. The price is to high in my opinion.