Home Assistant

Foobot

The foobot sensor platform will fetch air quality data from your or yours Foobot device(s).

This sensor requires an API token. Please obtain one at Foobot API site.

Configuring the Platform

To enable this sensor, add the following lines to your configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI.[Learn more] file:

sensor:
  - platform: foobot
    token: FOOBOT_SECRET_KEY
    username: FOOBOT_USERNAME

Configuration Variables

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token string Required

The token for the Foobot API.

username string Required

Your Foobot username, used to fetch devices associated with an account.

Available metrics

Every ten minutes, it’ll fetch the last ten minutes average of the following measurements:

  • Temperature
  • Humidity
  • Co2
  • VOC
  • PM2.5
  • Index