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Air Quality Monitors

How to Connect an Air Quality Monitor to Home Assistant (2026 Guide)

Connecting an air quality monitor to Home Assistant lets you graph CO2, particles and humidity and trigger fans or alerts automatically, and Simon Says Home Assistant, a YouTube channel dedicated to Home Assistant tutorials, showed a Matter sensor joining Home Assistant in about 30 seconds. How you connect depends on the monitor: Matter over Thread, […]

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Airthings View Plus Review: Radon, Particles and CO2 in One Monitor

This Airthings View Plus review finds an easy-to-set-up monitor that tracks radon, particles, CO2 and VOCs in one device, and LeafScore, a home and sustainability review site whose reviewer Dan ran it in his New York home, named it its top overall pick for indoor air quality. Here is how setup went, what the readings […]

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Best Air Quality Monitor (2026): Airthings, Aranet4 and Qingping Compared

The best air quality monitor for most homes is the Airthings View Plus, which tracks radon, particles, CO2 and VOCs in one unit and which LeafScore, a home and sustainability review site whose reviewer Dan ran it in his New York home, named its top overall pick. If you only need CO2 or want something […]