Aaron Parecki

Saturday, September 12, 2020

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  Portland, Oregon, USA

  Sat, Sep 12, 2020 5:21am -07:00
• Homepage | DustSensor by wojked (dustsensor.net)

  Sat, Sep 12, 2020 9:27am -07:00 #homeautomation #esp8266 #air
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  Contributions from: China, Ireland, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

  Sat, Sep 12, 2020 11:15am -07:00
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  Now you too can watch the AQI inside and outside my house:
  
  https://aaronparecki.com/air/

  

  Portland, Oregon • 62°F

  15 likes 1 repost 16 replies 1 mention

  Sat, Sep 12, 2020 12:02pm -07:00 #aqi #air
• Aleksandar Todorović https://todon.nl/@input_sh   •   Sep 12

  @aaronpk Which sensor are you using? I'm looking to do something similar before winter (air quality gets hazardous around New Year where I live).
  

  It's a PMS5003 sensor attached to esphome. They're mostly out of stock but you can find them on Amazon or Aliexpress if you're willing to wait a while for them to arrive.

  Portland, Oregon • 64°F

  Sat, Sep 12, 2020 12:18pm -07:00
• Photo - “Wear a damn mask” - Joseph https://twitter.com/photojoseph   •   Sep 12

  That’s cool. And you need better filters. How are you scrubbing internal air? Now I’m really curious what the AQI is in my house and studio!!
  

  I need filters at all! Just running the AC right now, but the exterior windows are super sealed and the apartment hallway air is filtered

  Portland, Oregon • 64°F

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  Sat, Sep 12, 2020 12:24pm -07:00
• Photo - “Wear a damn mask” - Joseph https://twitter.com/photojoseph   •   Sep 12

  Uh, not super sealed. 172 AQI is still utter shite. You need a filter, man.
  

  Well the hallway is like 240 so...

  Portland, Oregon • 64°F

  1 like 1 reply

  Sat, Sep 12, 2020 12:27pm -07:00
• Sam Stryker https://twitter.com/sbstryker

  If the entire East Coast looked like Mordor outside and it smelled like a barbecue every time you left your house we would not stop hearing the end of it. I don’t know if people not on the West Coast understand how bad it is

  Portland, Oregon • 67°F

  Sat, Sep 12, 2020 8:06pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Sep 12, 2020 6:34pm -07:00)
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  I have now resorted to wearing my N95 mask inside

  

  Portland, Oregon • 63°F

  18 likes 1 repost 15 replies

  Sat, Sep 12, 2020 8:25pm -07:00 #air
• james myers https://twitter.com/arsetechnica   •   Sep 13

  Air filter duct tape trash bag fan
  

  That implies I have an air filter lying around. Believe me if there was one anywhere nearby in this town I would have done this already.

  Portland, Oregon • 63°F

  2 likes 2 replies

  Sat, Sep 12, 2020 8:31pm -07:00
• bletchley punk is a fullmetal engineer https://twitter.com/alicegoldfuss

  I saw someone on here say they lived through a wildfire and now their signal for leaving is when birds start falling out of the sky dead, and instead of thinking "my god, this is horrific" I thought "dead birds, good, I'll check for that"

  Portland, Oregon • 63°F

  Sun, Sep 13, 2020 3:27am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Sep 12, 2020 8:31pm -07:00)
• macgenie https://micro.blog/macgenie   •   Sep 12

  @aaronpk What do you use for inside quality readings? I’ve seen a few reports from indoors. I have to assume the quality inside my house is no better than others, but I’d like to know for sure. (I am running the fan of my furnace which is equipped with an American Standard Accuclean integrates electrostatic filter. M)
  

  I had a PMS5003 sensor that I hooked up to my home automation platform. It's the sensor used in many retail AQI meters

  Portland, Oregon • 61°F

  Sat, Sep 12, 2020 8:46pm -07:00
• Anthony Sorace https://pdx.social/@a   •   Sep 12

  @aaronpk What sensor are you using?
  

  I added a link to it in the post! It's a PMS5003 sensor

  Portland, Oregon • 61°F

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  Sat, Sep 12, 2020 8:47pm -07:00
•    sonicrocketman https://pine.blog/u/sonicrocketman   •   Sep 12

  Yikes. Seems like you've found a project at least. How you holding up otherwise?
  

  Fine, just not happy about spending 48+ hours in this air, kinda worried about the possible side effects of this a few weeks from now

  Portland, Oregon • 61°F

  1 reply

  Sat, Sep 12, 2020 8:48pm -07:00
•    sonicrocketman https://pine.blog/u/sonicrocketman   •   Sep 13

  Wow. That’s crazy... is the sky still red?
  

  I haven't seen blue sky in days

  Portland, Oregon • 61°F

  1 reply

  Sat, Sep 12, 2020 8:49pm -07:00
• Matt Raible https://twitter.com/mraible   •   Sep 12

  Yikes! Is https://www.airnow.gov an accurate indicator of air quality? If so, ours is pretty good!

  
  

  I just want to see the sky again 😭

  Portland, Oregon • 61°F

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  Sat, Sep 12, 2020 8:51pm -07:00
• Eva https://twitter.com/evacide

  The year is 2020. Ash has blocked out the sun. My friends are evacuating out of fire zones. Pants are a distant memory. A podcaster asks me over Zoom, “So what’s it like to be a woman in tech?”

  Portland, Oregon • 61°F

  Wed, Sep 9, 2020 9:19pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Sep 12, 2020 8:52pm -07:00)
• Michael Vogel https://pirati.ca/profile/heluecht   •   Sep 13

  @aaronpk you are living in California near the fires?
  

  I'm in Portland Oregon, we have our own fires here 🔥

  Portland, Oregon • 61°F

  1 reply

  Sat, Sep 12, 2020 8:56pm -07:00
• Matt Raible https://twitter.com/mraible   •   Sep 13

  OMFG. Are you sure you're OK?

  
  

  Might sleep with this N95 mask on

  Portland, Oregon • 61°F

  Sat, Sep 12, 2020 9:10pm -07:00
• Mike Elgan https://twitter.com/MikeElgan

  Imagine going back in time one year and showing people this picture of a stadium full of cardboard fans and a sky of orange.

  

  Portland, Oregon • 60°F

  Fri, Sep 11, 2020 7:22pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Sep 12, 2020 9:11pm -07:00)