Airmega air purifier

Feature Requests
1

Would love yo be able to control my new AirMega 400s by Coway. I found a homebridge project here: https://github.com/aschzero/homebridge-airmega - it uses IOCare

2

+1

I might try to take a crack at it

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Any luck? Would still love to see this

4

Would love to see this as well… considering buying one. Originally I was going to get the non WiFi version as I hear the app is pretty worthless but if it works with Home Assistant, that’s a different story. :slight_smile:

5

Another vote for this!

6

Seems to have some API errors but it is working at times: https://github.com/sarahhenkens/home-assistant-iocare

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This is great! Can somebody help me understand what is meant by “Use Config Flow to Configure your Integration”?

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For those that were confused like me, after you install the integration with HACS, you need to navigate to the Integrations page and add it to HA. This is where you are prompted for credentials.

Hope that helps somebody!

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Hey Kyler, how well is the iocare integration working these days? What are the features, are you still using it and is someone still actively working on it? I live in California close to the Wildfires and looking to get an Air Purifier that integrates with Home Assistant. The number of smart/connected Air Purifiers seems surprisingly limited and the only real option I found was the AirMega 400S that utilizes ioCare.

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The upstream api that the component is using is broken right now so it’s not working. It was great when working. Control fan and front light but I’ve found that the “smart” mode has been really good and removed the need to manually automate the purifier piece. The only automation I had was to turn the light on and off at set times although I did have plans to turn on ceiling fans to help circulate air when purifier kicked on but never got around to it.

Bottom line, I really like the purifier but the integration is currently broken.

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11

Oddly enough, my weekly backup and reboot occurred last night and the API/component is now working :grinning:

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12

Some screenshots for you:

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13

that’s great news, thanks for the update! I just ordered this filter for the wildfire smoke, hoping I can add it to HA to automate turning off a fan if indoor air quality deteriorates.

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I was able to install the IOcare integration but I’m not getting similar panels to the screenshot you’ve listed. For example, I don’t see any entity for the light. For the fan, I only see an “on” or “off” toggle. For the history graph, it only shows a bar, not a line plot. Do I need to install custom cards?

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I have a custom branch of the integration that includes the switch for the light, it has not been merged in the master branch. The fan I am using a custom card to display the speeds as buttons

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Thanks! I was wondering if you were running off of the pull request. It’s too bad it didn’t get updated. I’ll integrate your PR into my branch. Any chance you mind sharing your code for the card?

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Sure, you need fan-control-entity-row. I am also using auto-entities to show active fans so it may not be exactly what you’re looking for:

card:
  show_header_toggle: false
  title: Active Fans
  type: entities
filter:
  include:
    - domain: fan
      options:
        customTheme: false
        type: 'custom:fan-control-entity-row'
      state: 'on'
id: active_lights
show_empty: false
type: 'custom:auto-entities'
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It looks like there’s something a bit wonky about the IOcare integration. I get the following graph:

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It looks like there is something funky about the return values (e.g., after each recorded value it returns to 20 ug/m^3).

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I just installed it and mine is working pretty great! Although i don’t see the light control option. Are there special steps to activating that?

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It’s not integrated into the main branch. You’ll need to incorporate https://github.com/sarahhenkens/home-assistant-iocare/pull/2 (requires some Git skills to figure out).

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