Yes, I would like to see the Air Quality Level, the numerical value of airQualityIndex and PM25.
I am curious as to the screen shots you posted above. Are they from your HomeKit? If so, how were you able to display the Air Quality level without an Ikea hub?
I did see on the Hubitat Capabilities List that there is not an attribute for pm25. Admittedly, not being very knowledgeable about driver coding, if the PM25 value/variable is still displaying in your hubitat driver, I don't understand why it still can't be mapped to a HomeKit value/variable that does represent PM25. I have taken up this conversation as well in a different post below. Hoping someone from HE can comment soon,
@bradford.clarke: Since you are using the IKEA hub would it be possible for you to post screen shots of what all the values/variables look like in HomeKit?
Hmmm. I looked at my frient air quality monitor. I notice that too doesn't have the aqi either... @gopher.ny@mike.maxwell Is this a driver issue or a integration issue? Just curious
Seems like HomeKit is taking the airQualityIndex (number 0..500), but is converting it internally and is showing it as airQualityLevel ('Good,' 'Moderate', etc... ).
@rad1 yes, I am using the HE inbuilt HomKit integration app.
And BTW in case there is any doubt regarding the usefulness of such metrics for automation vs just eye candy, I'm using CO2 sensors with Hubitat to drive ventilation in my home (HRV + extractor fans, so far) and PM to automate air cleaners.
Works great, but having the metrics visible in the Home app would help FAF as they can easily check what is going on on their phone.
I am actually not using HE's built in HomeKit integration. I am using a third party's custom HE App/Driver along with the corresponding Homebridge plugin all from Tonesto7. It's been flawless.
So, here's what is odd. His HE app/driver does not display airqualityindex, airqualitylevel or PM in HomeKit. But. When I go to the logs in my homebridge his plugin does show airqualityindex as a number and PM25. But does not show airqualitylevel.
I blew into the back of the device and within a second the humidity and air quality values increased.
I sat the device down and the numbers started to drop within a few seconds, so it is reacting quickly.
I'll check the logs when I get home later and see if there's any consistency in the reporting values.
I don't actually have any Apple HomeKit devices, i simply use the Home Assistant HomeKit controller integration as a way to get most of the devices connected to my Dirigera hub into Home Assistant.
Apple Home is now showing Air Quality as ''Excellent', while this driver (using the airnow.gov scale ) determines it as 'Good'. The numerical value of the airQualityIndex was 34. Higher value switched it to 'Moderate' in HE, but 'Good' in Apple Home.
Thanks - although it appears the restriction actually does not apply to real Zigbee or Z-wave devices. To test this, I sacrificed a Zigbee plug and changed its driver to a cloud device driver and lo and behold, the cloud device's attributes (for supported capabilities) are now available to HomeKit. Not sure what is the point of this restriction.
This is a requirement for certification for "bridge" devices like Hubitat, according to Hubitat's interpretation of these requirements. If/when certification happens, we will see what Apple thinks. Supported (and not) device typed are documented.
Considering that the hub knows if a device is Zigbee or Z-Wave by way of how it was added, that is likely what it's using to determine eligibility--not just the driver (though that does matter too for at least certain capabilities). Using LAN or cloud driver for a Zigbee or Z-Wave device isn't really a viable solution if you want to actually use the device, so the above is interesting but not exactly a viable "hack" for most cases.
(apologies for the off-topic tangent - I'll stop here)
I completely agree and in fact would prefer to go through built-in virtual drivers for that use-case but unfortunately none support the capabilities I'm interested in (yet).
I'm using the Home Assistant Device Bridge to bring the temperature and humidty values into Hubitat.
Logs indicate that it's updating humidity as soon as there is a change in value:
dev:719 2023-05-24 11:24:23.101 PM info Air Sensor Humidity Sensor humidity is 51 %
dev:719 2023-05-24 11:24:20.058 PM info Air Sensor Humidity Sensor humidity is 50 %
dev:719 2023-05-24 11:22:00.609 PM info Air Sensor Humidity Sensor humidity is 51 %
dev:719 2023-05-24 11:21:59.584 PM info Air Sensor Humidity Sensor humidity is 50 %
dev:719 2023-05-24 11:21:58.556 PM info Air Sensor Humidity Sensor humidity is 51 %
dev:719 2023-05-24 11:21:57.546 PM info Air Sensor Humidity Sensor humidity is 50 %
dev:719 2023-05-24 11:21:45.336 PM info Air Sensor Humidity Sensor humidity is 51 %
dev:719 2023-05-24 11:21:43.304 PM info Air Sensor Humidity Sensor humidity is 50 %
dev:719 2023-05-24 11:21:31.077 PM info Air Sensor Humidity Sensor humidity is 51 %
dev:719 2023-05-24 11:21:30.064 PM info Air Sensor Humidity Sensor humidity is 50 %
dev:719 2023-05-24 11:21:27.003 PM info Air Sensor Humidity Sensor humidity is 51 %
dev:719 2023-05-24 11:21:22.934 PM info Air Sensor Humidity Sensor humidity is 50 %
dev:719 2023-05-24 11:21:10.737 PM info Air Sensor Humidity Sensor humidity is 51 %
dev:719 2023-05-24 11:21:09.742 PM info Air Sensor Humidity Sensor humidity is 50 %
dev:719 2023-05-24 11:21:08.734 PM info Air Sensor Humidity Sensor humidity is 51 %
dev:719 2023-05-24 11:21:02.582 PM info Air Sensor Humidity Sensor humidity is 50 %
Temperature values seem to be updating either as it changes, or after X amount of time(?):
dev:720 2023-05-24 11:22:29.122 PM info Air Sensor Temperature Sensor temperature is 20 °C
dev:720 2023-05-24 06:01:22.652 PM info Air Sensor Temperature Sensor temperature is 21 °C
dev:720 2023-05-24 06:01:21.647 PM info Air Sensor Temperature Sensor temperature is 22 °C
dev:720 2023-05-24 06:01:20.748 PM info Air Sensor Temperature Sensor temperature is 21 °C
dev:720 2023-05-24 07:34:27.230 AM info Air Sensor Temperature Sensor temperature is 21 °C
dev:720 2023-05-24 07:34:25.265 AM info Air Sensor Temperature Sensor temperature is 22 °C
They aren't being passed back into HE from HA, even though I selected them.
Assuming since there isn't a matching generic device driver for the Home Assistant Device Bridge, it's not being brought in.
In HA, there aren't any log entries being displayed for any of the components of the device.
I've checked the configuration.yaml file to make sure that logs for binary_sensor entries were not being suppressed.
