<story><title>Open Source Outdoor Air Quality Monitor</title><url>https://www.airgradient.com/open-air/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>traceroute66</author><text>Time for the usual reminder that there is a search function on the bottom of every single YC page.&lt;p&gt;Air gradient has been extensively discussed here multiple times already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frognumber</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t mind the repost. It&amp;#x27;s doing good work. It&amp;#x27;s good to be reminded of it, and it&amp;#x27;s a slightly different thing each time. I&amp;#x27;ll buy it when it&amp;#x27;s ready for prime time.&lt;p&gt;The founder reads this.&lt;p&gt;Founder: What&amp;#x27;s held me back from buying this is a lack of github links and instructions. EVERY place you say &amp;quot;open source&amp;quot; should link to the repo. The repo should have CLEAR instructions for how to hack this.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a lot of copy like &amp;quot;We provide detailed instructions and videos&amp;quot; but NO hyperlink to said detailed instructions or videos. Any place you mention specs should link to ACTUAL specs. What&amp;#x27;s your BOM? What microcontroller are you using? Do I rewrite the firmware in Python? Rust? MakeCode? Etc.&lt;p&gt;Those are the tires I want to kick. If my child can program this in MakeCode and it&amp;#x27;s designed for tinkering, it&amp;#x27;s a no-brainer. If it&amp;#x27;s on github, and easy to set up to work from my desktop, it&amp;#x27;s reasonable. If it involves setting up docker containers and proprietary environments for hacking C code, it&amp;#x27;s not as obvious a buy. If I can&amp;#x27;t figure out how to get started in 30 seconds, I assume it&amp;#x27;s the last one. I have a lot of projects around the house I wish I&amp;#x27;d done, and I&amp;#x27;m not buying more until a few of those finish.&lt;p&gt;Also, I will never pay for your service. The whole point of open everything is I control my data.&lt;p&gt;The other piece I&amp;#x27;d like is a dirt-cheap set of temperature &amp;#x2F; humidity tools. I bought an 8-channel weather station, so I can monitor temperature indoors and in each room. I&amp;#x27;d love to switch to something more open.&lt;p&gt;Again, a lot of this comes down to how easy it is to get started. If I can make dashboards in 5 minutes with numpy &amp;#x2F; plotly &amp;#x2F; pylab &amp;#x2F; etc., I&amp;#x27;m delighted. If I can&amp;#x27;t, but it&amp;#x27;s not bad, I&amp;#x27;m grumpier. etc.&lt;p&gt;So in conclusion, I&amp;#x27;d do user studies and think-aloud protocols with customers.</text></comment>
<story><title>Open Source Outdoor Air Quality Monitor</title><url>https://www.airgradient.com/open-air/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>traceroute66</author><text>Time for the usual reminder that there is a search function on the bottom of every single YC page.&lt;p&gt;Air gradient has been extensively discussed here multiple times already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kayson</author><text>The guy who runs air gradient posts his articles here pretty frequently. Not sure at what point, if any, it breaks the rules. It definitely feels a little spammy to me though.</text></comment>