homeassistant

Has anybody designed a wired PoE version yet?

I'll be honest that I'm real lazy on this and just let the wifi controller choose whatever it thinks is most sane (which hopefully accounts for neighbors and stuff as well). It re-scans nightly and moves if it needs to.

But I have 55 z-wave devices and 12 zigbee... So it should be readily apparent that I don't have to worry that much about it.

Zigbee is basically all Vindstyrkas (5x, one per bedroom and on in the "Great" room) and outdoor philips light fixtures (6x). But that's why I was interested and looked at this product. I have so many Vindstyrkas that I was curious if there was something better out there.

The first AirGradient I bought helped eliminate a source of headaches and poor sleep by showing how bad the CO2 level was getting in the bedroom. Did some changes to the air circulation in the room so that the CO2 levels are held below the levels that produce symptoms. Headaches disappeared and sleep improved. So CO2 monitoring isn't critical but it could be useful.

Unfortunately, you can't just put plants everywhere. CO2 conversion is also highly dependent on light levels, which sufficient light levels not being achievable everywhere.

Office buildings with a large number of people meeting rooms etc.) could also benefit from monitoring.

Heck, even at home, I have a room that quickly accumulates CO2, easily reaching 2000ppm with just a single person being inside, which makes spending prolonged time in said room a tiring affair.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11253968/

https://www.pjoes.com/pdf-68875-24089?filename=The+Influence+of+House.pdf

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666790823000502

CO2 concentration is an indicator of indoor air quality and can generally inform the quality of ventilation. Indoor plants likely won't exchange enough to be effective.

Baseline (outdoor) is around 400 ppm, 1000 ppm is generally the 'comfort limit' or where some cognitive effects start to become present (drowsiness), then over 2000 ppm is generally the unhealthy limit.

Probably. It's been a long day...

Sure... But does a typical household need this. My point was that I'm not sure that $170 for these sensors makes sense for me. And I suspect that most people are in the same boat as me. Maybe a sane answer for someone truly interested in the CO2 sensor and such for say 5 rooms is one of these in a central room and Vindstyrkas in the others. Otherwise you're talking about $1150... Which most people just aren't going to do.