I just got an Airthings Radon monitor, and the integration with HA went smoothly. As a starting dashboard I have a simple card displaying sensor values.

But I let myself get carried away and got the one with the most sensors. So expected to see history graphs so I can look at trends or events, but it never occurred to me they were all different units and scales. HA wants to create many charts, which is less easy to read.

Does anyone have dashboard ideas on how to display these?

  • AA5B@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    8 minutes ago

    I only have an hour of data so far

    Edit: after a day’s data, now’s the hard part: deciding what to do about it and how much to trust the accuracy. I have not put the detector in the basement yet(primary goal is monitoring radon), but it’s in a family room addition on a slab, with old direct vented gas heaters (actually those are off right now, so it’s not ytesting those)

    • VOC typical level is generally fine but there was a spike at 8pm well above the recommended limit. Is it a glitch/noise? Is it something I need to act on? Is it accurate? I don’t remember any event that could have caused it, so I guess for now see if it repeats
    • pm10 and pm2.5 are generally fine but there was a spike just after midnight. Still within recommended levels so I’m not worried yet but will pay attention
    • radon is still climbing. Still fine and they say it needs up to 30 days, but I’d expect the basement to be higher so I need this to level off soon. If it doesn’t, my likely action is to do a charcoal test and see how the numbers match up

    Clearly I also need a chart that can display a limit, or two. For example, who recommends a limit of 100 for radon and epa recommends a limit of 148, so I’d like to see them both on the radon graph, and maybe a color change or something if a point in time exceeds them