Whether or not it’s as a result of they’re involved about worsening air pollution or the now endemic variants of COVID-19, an entire lot of individuals have discovered themselves available in the market for a house air high quality monitor thee final couple of years. IKEA famous this development awhile again, and launched the VINDRIKTNING sensor to capitalize on the development.

The machine will need to have bought fairly nicely, as a result of final month the Swedish flat-packer unveiled the significantly extra succesful (and costlier) VINDSTYRKA. Now due to the efforts of [Oleksii Kutuzov] we’ve obtained a implausible teardown of the brand new gadget, and a few extra info on the enhancements IKEA remodeled its predecessor.

Definitely the obvious improve is the addition of an LCD readout that shows temperature, humidity, and what number of particulates the machine detected within the air. There’s even a “site visitors gentle” coloured indicator to indicate at a look how unhealthy your air provide is. The opposite large change is the addition of wi-fi, although in contrast to the WiFi hacks we noticed for the VINDRIKTNING, this built-in functionality makes use of Zigbee and solely works with IKEA’s own residence automation ecosystem. Naturally.

Talking of these hacks, a GitHub person by the identify of [MaartenL] chimes in to say they’ve managed to hook an ESP32 as much as check pads on the VINDSTYRKA motherboard, permitting the parasitic microcontroller to learn the machine’s sensors and report their information on the community over a service like MQTT, with out impacting the sensor’s regular operations. That is how the primary hacks on the older VINDRIKTNING had been pulled off, so appears like a promising begin.

However even for those who aren’t trying to modify the machine from its authentic configuration (how did you discover this web site?), it appears fairly clear the VINDSTYRKA is a well-built piece of package that can serve you and your loved ones nicely. Which is greater than what might be stated for among the cheapo environmental sensors flooding the market.

Due to [killergeek] for the tip.