Air quality, smoke and pollen

I am after monitoring Environment/Weather Air Quality in two forms.

Pollen, tree and grass (because I have allergies)
Smoke, bush fire (because I live in Australia and the bush fire season is crazy this year).

Is anyone aware of any features to get them into HASS?

With regards to air quality I can highly recommend the luftdaten.info project. I wrote up how I built my own sensor and integrated it into HA. I live in Sydney and this sensor has turned out to be extremely useful over the last couple of weeks.

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How much did this cost you to make? Looks interesting. I have an official NSW station about 1km from here, but I’d like to have another just to compare.

I’d estimate about AU$60 in total. $30 for the air quality sensor, $5 for the temperature sensor and $10 for the ESP - all from China. And then about $15 for the case parts from Bunnings.
If you have never done any such project you may need to add $10 more for sundries. I still had stuff like cables, connectors, plastic mesh, plastic tube from previous projects.

Cheers mate. Might look into it for my next project.

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interesting and cool, I allos just found this… maybe an integration; https://www.dpie.nsw.gov.au/air-quality/air-quality-alerts

Maybe there is also a fire-danger-level per area API as well.

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Well, it’s your luck day. I’ve integrated that already with a custom component:

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nice, I have it going and working… Maybe get it merged into HASS?

I also found this; https://www.dpie.nsw.gov.au/air-quality/maps/live-air-quality-data-lower-hunter-and-central-coast Should maybe rig it into HASS also.

Looks like NSW uses the AQI form of air quality measurement, easiest way to do that would be via the built-in WAQI component. Personally for me in Melbourne I went straight to the Vic EPA since they moved on from the AQI method in 2019.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/waqi/

In domogik for french user we where using this site to get pollens by deps:
https://www.pollens.fr/

Do not know hos to integrate it in HA.