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Weather Station Hardware => Air Quality Sensors => Topic started by: ConligWX on May 27, 2020, 04:20:06 PM

Title: PurpleAir with BME680 sensor
Post by: ConligWX on May 27, 2020, 04:20:06 PM: PurpleAir have been testing a new the BME680 sensor for the PA-II units. This new sensor adds a VOC Gas sensor to the equation.

Some chat on the facebook group is seen here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/purpleair/permalink/949906395466434/

I've managed to replace my BME280 with the new BME680 and is reporting Voc too.
Title: Re: PurpleAir with BME680 sensor
Post by: ConligWX on May 30, 2020, 07:29:17 PM: Up and running well now. added the IAQ chart from bosch as this is slightly different than the 2.5PM chart.

https://www.conligwx.org/wxairquality.php

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Title: Re: PurpleAir with BME680 sensor
Post by: prestwickwx on June 18, 2020, 08:31:55 AM: I installed the BEM680 sensor yesterday and it seems to be working well.

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Chuck
Title: Re: PurpleAir with BME680 sensor
Post by: JimmyS on July 15, 2020, 08:23:15 PM: Hi, where is this PurpleAir display from? All I have is the map interface.
Thanks
Jim
Title: Re: PurpleAir with BME680 sensor
Post by: prestwickwx on July 15, 2020, 08:47:29 PM: Quote from: JimmyS on July 15, 2020, 08:23:15 PM
Hi, where is this PurpleAir display from? All I have is the map interface.
Thanks
Jim
This is a screen shot showing data from Purple Air using the Weather34 template for Meteobridge. https://weather34.com/homeweatherstation/

Chuck
Title: Re: PurpleAir with BME680 sensor
Post by: JimmyS on July 15, 2020, 10:14:56 PM: Thank you, Chuck.
Title: Re: PurpleAir with BME680 sensor
Post by: blacklistedcard on July 24, 2020, 06:17:06 PM: I installed the BME680 sensor into my PurpleAir. It's working great with the VOC measurement.
Title: Re: PurpleAir with BME680 sensor
Post by: schwab on September 29, 2020, 07:08:50 AM: Without difficulty I installed the BME680 in my PurpleAir PA-II-SD sensor with firmware v6.01

It has been up & running.

My Rochester MN sensor is in southeast Minnesota and the new VOC experimental sensor can be seen on this map link:

https://tinyurl.com/y2bfzj6y (https://tinyurl.com/y2bfzj6y)
Title: Re: PurpleAir with BME680 sensor
Post by: azchrisf on February 07, 2021, 03:13:46 PM: I installed the sensor in mine too, but I don’t think they are helpful because they were intended for indoor Ali.Numbers outside are consistently high.