Hello,
I purchase a QingPing Air Monitor Lite. This Monitor integrates 5 sensors including Temperature, Humidity, PM2.5, PM10, CO2.
I found out that there are no Integrations supporting this device. Since this device support homekit protocol natively, I follow this guide to add the sensor through Homekit Controller Integrations. After that, all of the sensor values can be obtained in the Home assistant.
I use the homekit bridge integration to add those sensors to the apple homekit. But I found out that the 2 PM Sensors are missing. 3 sensors named temperature, humidity, CO2 are in sensor entity domain and 2 sensors named PM2.5 and PM10 are in air_quality domain. The homekit bridge cannot recognize the air_qualtiy entity domain as a sensor and cannot be added to the homekit bridge.
I create a temporary solution but is not perfect. I create 2 sensor entity with sensor template as a PM2.5 sensor and PM10 sensor in the configuration.yaml file. These sensor templates can be added to the homekit but seperate 2 sensor units.
I want to add the all of the PM sensors as one unit in homekit. Any perfect solution suggested? Could I add the air_quality entity directly as a sensor through homekit bridge?
When I added the device through the homekit directly, the PM sensor is displaying in this format
# My Sensor template
sensor:
- platform: template
sensors:
qingping_air_monitor_lite_pm25:
friendly_name: "PM 2.5 Sensor"
unique_id: "qingping_air_monitor_lite_pm25"
value_template: "{{ state_attr('air_quality.qingping_air_monitor_lite', 'particulate_matter_2_5') }}"
unit_of_measurement: "μg/m³"
icon_template: "mdi:weather-fog"
qingping_air_monitor_lite_pm25_pm10:
friendly_name: "PM 10 Sensor"
unique_id: "qingping_air_monitor_lite_pm10"
value_template: "{{ state_attr('air_quality.qingping_air_monitor_lite', 'particulate_matter_10') }}"
unit_of_measurement: "μg/m³"
icon_template: "mdi:weather-fog"
EDIT:
Form the “home assistant/core” source ode. The Air Quality Sensor type is only defined with 2 Characteristics which are Air Particulate Density and Air Qualitly. Could we add PM2.5 Density and PM10 Density Characteristics to the homekit bridge?
