Purple Air data?
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:32 am
It appears the existing Purple Air plugin no longer works, and the developer has not replied to forum posts or GitHub issues in quite a while. How many people are using, or would like to use, this data?
I looked at the so-called API for downloading data, and you can access any publicly listed Purple sensor with no authentication, so getting the data from the cloud servers doesn't seem to be very difficult. Private sensors look to be very difficult from a plugin. There's no published method for getting data directly from the sensor, only from the cloud servers. There might be a back door, I just haven't looked for it yet.
If I do a plugin, it's going to be pretty minimalistic. No geo-location, no "nearby" sensor lists, no AQI calculations. Just the raw data for sensors specified by ID number.
I looked at the so-called API for downloading data, and you can access any publicly listed Purple sensor with no authentication, so getting the data from the cloud servers doesn't seem to be very difficult. Private sensors look to be very difficult from a plugin. There's no published method for getting data directly from the sensor, only from the cloud servers. There might be a back door, I just haven't looked for it yet.
If I do a plugin, it's going to be pretty minimalistic. No geo-location, no "nearby" sensor lists, no AQI calculations. Just the raw data for sensors specified by ID number.