home-assistant.io/source/_integrations/waqi.markdown

title, description, ha_category, ha_release, ha_iot_class, ha_codeowners, ha_domain, ha_platforms, ha_integration_type, ha_config_flow

title	description	ha_category	ha_release	ha_iot_class	ha_codeowners	ha_domain	ha_platforms	ha_integration_type	ha_config_flow
World Air Quality Index (WAQI)	Instructions on how to setup World Air Quality Index sensor in Home Assistant.	Health	0.34	Cloud Polling	@joostlek	waqi	sensor	integration	true

The World Air Quality Index (WAQI) {% term integration %} will query World Air Quality Index service to check AQI value for a specific set of locations. The resulting indexes will be added to the Home Assistant as sensor outputs.

Setup

This sensor requires an API token. Please obtain one at AQICN API token.

{% include integrations/config_flow.md %}

The value reported is an overall AQ index for the location. The values of the index can be interpreted as following:

AQI	Status	Description
0 - 50	Good	Air quality is considered satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk
51 - 100	Moderate	Air quality is acceptable; however, for some pollutants there may be a moderate health concern for a very small number of people who are unusually sensitive to air pollution
101 - 150	Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups	Members of sensitive groups may experience health effects. The general public is not likely to be affected
151 - 200	Unhealthy	Everyone may begin to experience health effects; members of sensitive groups may experience more serious health effects
201 - 300	Very unhealthy	Health warnings of emergency conditions. The entire population is more likely to be affected
301+	Hazardous	Health alert: everyone may experience more serious health effects

Further information about AQI can be found on the EPA's AirNOW website.