Airquality Home Measurement System

Stuff to make the enviro+ air quality sensor and RPI working

Requirements

• A computer to set up and configure your Raspberry Pi
• Micro USB Power supply for your Raspberry Pi
• Micro SD Card (I have used a 32GB Sandisk Ultra ) to hold the operating system of your Raspberry Pi and the data you collect
• A way to read/write to your SD card from your computer
• Raspberry Pi 4
• Pimoroni Enviro+ sensor
• PMS5003 Matter sensor with cable

Install the hardware

https://curiositysavestheplanet.com/air-quality-monitor-raspberry-pi-enviro-maker-project/

Install the Raspbian software

https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/

Don't forget to enable SSH by placing a file called ssh in the root folder

Install Enviro+ libraries

https://learn.pimoroni.com/article/getting-started-with-enviro-plus

Install influxDB and Grafana

https://simonhearne.com/2020/pi-influx-grafana/

Make sure that this script runs after powering up

1. Edit your crontab file with sudo crontab -e
2. Add the following line to the file:

@reboot sleep 60 && /usr/bin/python3 /path/to/all_to_influxdb.py >> /path/to/measurement_logs.txt 2>&1 &

3. Save and exit by typing CTRL+X and Y.
4. Reboot your RPI to test it