I find the sensitivity to be quite good.
I have one in the bedroom. The PM 2.5 spikes whenever we shake up the bed (typically in the morning) and goes down quickly again after that.
Typically it looks something like this:
do you know if there is a good way to do OTA update for the air purifier through HA?
I found out that it’s not that it’s not precise, but update much less frequently, dont know what to do about it 
edit2: miraculously (i did nothing) my purifier started updating frequently. my graph now looks similar to one above. Nice
There isn’t even a PM25 sensor in my device connected through ZHA.
I would like to do an automation and control the fan based on the pm2.5 level. I can’t set the fan speed though, do I need to do it via YAML? Has someone already done it? The auto feature is too slow for me.
In my case the sensor for particles is going higher and higher for no apparent reason, see screenshot. This graph is a period of 30 days using Grafana.
Anyone any idea why this might happen?
P.S. directly connected via Zigbee to ZHA, no IKEA bridge.
Did you ever get this working?
My starkvind shows up exactly as yours, but no air quality sensor is available. When looking at the endpoint it is clearly available.
I’m using ZHA with a skyconnect stick.
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This happens judging from my own experience. Cleaning the pre-filter usually resolves the issue. It’s recommended to have it cleaned every 2-4 weeks.
Did you ever get this to show up? I can also see the air quality rating in the manage clusters area, but I have no actual entity for it.
Perhaps a clue or maybe just a ‘worked for me’.
After pairing my new Starkvind, it did the OTA update within about 10 mins and ‘reconfigure’ showed the air quality and pm2.5 attributes/cluster, but it wasn’t until I rebooted my HA instance that the sensor values showed up.
How can you tell it did the OTA update?
The OTA update system in ZHA seems like it’s in the depths of the settings and not that intuitive and reliable, based on the one guide I followed.
Hi, just bought the table version,
All parameters show up in z2m.
Just one concern though, I also happen to have Ikea vindstyrka placed at my back garden,
so for comparison sake, i placed the table right below it.
The pm 2.5 measurement differs by 20-30 points, is this normal?
The upper one seems to be the most accurate, i don’t smell anything polluting.
Its a used item, the filter report says its been used 50 days, thats why i’m concerned.
I consider adding my STARKVIND purifiers to my HA soon. I am just wondering about one thing… Will I be able to set them to the Auto-Mode from HA? Or will I need an automation and control it based on the PM2.5 value?
If you use Z2M, then Yes. Do not know for ZHA
In the newer versions of ZHA this is easier to access.
Also as a follow up I added this using ZHA and I had to restart my HA for the air filter to show up, even after adding the table.
The mushroom card worked for me. Thanks for the easy solution
It seems the integration from Starvkind has changed sometime in the last two(?) weeks.
Before you could just set the fan speed to 10% and it would go into auto-modus. Now if I change it to 10% it goes back to 20%. There is a new (at least i didn’t see it before) preset “auto” and activating that starts auto modus.
As an upside it shows now the actual rotator speed in auto modus instead of 10%, as a downside this preset seems not to be configureable with standard cards or mushroom cards. As a workaround you can turn the device off and on and it starts in auto mode.
Better solution than off/on to active auto modus: I use the Mushroom fan card. To activate auto I set the standard touch as “Action” and “preset fan”, choose the Starvkind fan entity and as preset name “auto”.
I’m new to all this, and just noticed the difference.
With Z2M you get:
- on/off
- Fan Speed
- Air Quality
- PM2.5
With ZHA you get:
- on/off
- PM2.5
Unfortunately, I was misinformed when setting up Z2M and someone convinced me ZHA is just as good but easier when using Zigbee exclusively with Home Assistant. Now once every few devices I add seems to have minimal support in ZHA.
Of course my network and automations have grown considerably before I figured this out. Now that I have my own experience, I would advise everyone to definitely go for Z2M (not that anyone asked) because apparently you can go from Z2M to ZHA without destroying your network, but not the other way around.
Technically you can run both at the same time on the same network (with a supported coordinator) but even for that I made the mistake of setting up ZHA first and I’m not the only one. I hope there will be a way to do it the other way around in the future.
Anyway, it is interesting that some people report being able to control fan speed using Mushroom UI cards. It prompted me to click on the name of the default non-mushroom on/off power button, and it opens a slider as well! So thank you for pointing this out to me.
Now all I’m really missing is the “Air quality” indicator. Although if it literally just uses the PM2.5 sensor and no other information to judge the air quality, I guess I could make my own judgement, but without the “Air quality” judgement label, I can’t really learn what level of PM2.5 is considered good or bad.
Where can i put this code in? I really want to adjust the “auto” settings.
Right now the HA integration with Ikea doesn’t work with the newer Digeria Dirigera Hub.
When adding the Starkvind to zigbee2mqtt there is NO control of the fan speed.
The only thing i managed is to add scenes with fan speeds, and use it with HA automatisation.
In the HA Ikea integretion only Tradfri is mentioned. that’s old hardware.
having a lot of problems with this device…
You can ditch the IKEA integration and move that to the HomeKit integration
All devices on the Dirigera are supported except the switches.
The fan tables work perfectly fine
Added bonus: motion sensors heave a binary and you get events for the buttons