Airvisual - unable to get it working

keithh666 · September 10, 2017, 1:56pm

Hi Guys,

When trying to get the Airvisual component working I get the following errors…

2017-09-10 14:49:37 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.sensor.airvisual] Unable to update sensor data
2017-09-10 14:49:37 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Error doing job: Task exception was never retrieved
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/tasks.py”, line 239, in _step
result = coro.send(None)
File “/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity_component.py”, line 381, in async_process_entity
new_entity, self, update_before_add=update_before_add
File “/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity_component.py”, line 210, in async_add_entity
yield from entity.async_update()
File “/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/components/sensor/airvisual.py”, line 252, in async_update
symbol = self._data.pollution_info.get(‘main{0}’.format(self._locale))
AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘get’
2017-09-10 14:49:37 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Error doing job: Task exception was never retrieved
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/tasks.py”, line 239, in _step
result = coro.send(None)
File “/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity_component.py”, line 381, in async_process_entity
new_entity, self, update_before_add=update_before_add
File “/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity_component.py”, line 210, in async_add_entity
yield from entity.async_update()
File “/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/components/sensor/airvisual.py”, line 226, in async_update
self._state = self._data.pollution_info.get(
AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘get’
2017-09-10 14:49:37 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Error doing job: Task exception was never retrieved
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/tasks.py”, line 239, in _step
result = coro.send(None)
File “/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity_component.py”, line 381, in async_process_entity
new_entity, self, update_before_add=update_before_add
File “/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity_component.py”, line 210, in async_add_entity
yield from entity.async_update()
File “/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/components/sensor/airvisual.py”, line 202, in async_update
aqi = self._data.pollution_info.get(‘aqi{0}’.format(self._locale))
AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘get’

My configuration is as follows…

- platform: airvisual
  api_key: !secret airvisual_api_key
  monitored_conditions:
    - us
  latitude: xxx
  longitude: xxx
  radius: 1000

Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

BertrumUK · September 10, 2017, 3:06pm

I am getting the same. Keep increasing the radius but still get the error.

itchaboy · September 10, 2017, 8:33pm

Mine works fine without the coordinates and radius. Haven’t tried with them

keithh666 · September 11, 2017, 10:07am

Just tried taking them out and it made no difference

cdp181 · September 11, 2017, 2:21pm

Also not working for me, have tried with no lat, long and radius and also with then explicitly configured, same error as above from memory.

itchaboy · September 12, 2017, 11:38am

Weird not sure why it works for me!

bachya · September 14, 2017, 8:57pm

Hi there - platform author here. Would you be willing to message me your latitude and longitude so I can debug further?

bachya · September 15, 2017, 12:09am

Hi all – in talking with @cdp181, it looks like the AirVisual API isn’t returning the nearest city for some coordinates (for some reason). Per this thread, I’m going to add a feature that’ll allow for a HASS configuration in which city/region/country is explicitly specified; I’ll also document how you can look for a city near you with valid air data.

bachya · September 15, 2017, 2:09am

FYI, PR has been submitted: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/9436

keithh666 · September 16, 2017, 5:26pm

Hi Bachya,

Since upgrading HA to 53.1 it’s now working

bachya · September 16, 2017, 5:27pm

Great! Whenever you are browsing the docs, make sure to check out the sidebar: that will always show you the minimum version you need for that particular component/platform.

keithh666 · September 16, 2017, 6:31pm

Yep but it should have worked for 53.0 I don’t see any changes that would have affected it in 53.1 I just did the update as it may fix other things, that I’m having an issue with.

bachya · September 23, 2017, 5:01pm

Hi all – 0.54.0 (released today) has this update.

ralphhuisman · September 26, 2017, 8:38pm

Thanks for the update @bachya!

But now the AQI is shown as PSI. For me it now looks like: U.S. Air Quality Index 73 PSI

keithh666 · September 26, 2017, 9:59pm

Same for Chinese 36 PSI

bachya · September 26, 2017, 10:34pm

That is the Pollutant Standard Index (PSI) and it was introduced by design: without a unit, the sensor’s history data would display a quite-useless stacked bar graph, rather than the much-more-useful line graph.

The state is still numeric, however:

…so, if you don’t want to see “PSI”, you can always create your own template sensor.

keithh666 · September 26, 2017, 10:44pm

OK, I understand, thanks for the great work on this