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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • I vividly remember in 1996 one of the cable TV stations in Germany had a basically year-long celebration of “thirty years of Star Trek”, airing all the movies, premiering new seasons of DS9 and airing the first season of Voyager for the first time (Germany was a year behind every season, probably because of dubbing and other licensing terms). I was teenager then, loving everything about Star Trek.

    And last year it kinda hit me like a brick that in just three years time (now two) we can celebrate “sixty years of Star Trek”.


  • I am in central Europe and I have both the AirGradient One and the AirQ Basic. The AirQ is much more capable, with more sensors (especially a dedicated VOCs sensor), and has a better design, and the Home Assistant integration works really well locally. It is quite expensive though.

    The AirGradient One took a long time to ship (almost three months, but that was expected and communicated clearly by the AirGradient folks) but it definitely is available for shipping to Europe, so probably also the UK. It has fewer sensors but you can (and I did) flash it and customise it with Esphome. Look for the github repos of user MallocArray. So it also works very well locally, using the esphome integration.

    So it really depends on what you want to measure. If it is just Co2 and pm2.5 then the AirGradient is probably enough and much cheaper. With the AirQ you pay a lot more but you get many more sensors.