World Air Quality Index
The waqi sensor platform will query World Air Quality Index service to check AQI value for a specific set of locations. The resulting indexes will be added to the Home Assistant as sensor outputs.
This sensor requires an API token. Please obtain one at AQICN API token.
To enable this sensor, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml file:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
- platform: waqi
token: AQICN_API_TOKEN
locations:
- beijing
stations:
- Beijing US Embassy
Configuration variables:
- locations (Required): A list of location names to look for air quality data. In case a specific location has multiple registered stations all of them will be added to Home Assistant.
- token (Required): The token for the AQICN public API.
- stations (Optional): A list of station names to look for air quality data. Station should be within locations specified above.
The value reported is an overall AQ index for the location. The values of the index can be interpreted as following:
| AQI | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0 - 50 | Good | Air quality is considered satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk |
| 51 - 100 | Moderate | Air quality is acceptable; however, for some pollutants there may be a moderate health concern for a very small number of people who are unusually sensitive to air pollution |
| 101 - 150 | Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups | Members of sensitive groups may experience health effects. The general public is not likely to be affected |
| 151 - 200 | Unhealthy | Everyone may begin to experience health effects; members of sensitive groups may experience more serious health effects |
| 201 - 300 | Very unhealthy | Health warnings of emergency conditions. The entire population is more likely to be affected |
| 301+ | Hazardous | Health alert: everyone may experience more serious health effects |