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Scratch'n'Sneeze

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Mar 17, 2014, 8:43:44 AM3/17/14
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Hi all,

Just stumbled across the project and have been reading with great interest as several people in my local community would like to measure air quality.

I presently have some Google powermeters pushing data to COSM, but pushing data about environmental conditions, particularly air quality is even more interesting. I was looking at using a teensy (arduino, www.pjrc.com) but the AQE looks quite advanced. I appreciate that readings may not be stable, but since the processing is available on-board it can only be a matter of time ;)

The map shows a few eggs here in Sydney as I was wondering if anybody local is active in this group and would mind showing me one/having a chat?

Cheers, Niff


Benjamin Lebsanft

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Apr 2, 2014, 3:17:25 AM4/2/14
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Hi Niff,

I'd rather go with http://www.smartcitizen.me/ as their project at least
is in an active state and does the same job as the AQE while not failing
so hard.

Bye
Ben

vicatcu

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Apr 2, 2014, 10:33:47 AM4/2/14
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Ben,

Somewhat against my better judgement, I'll respond to you.

- The Air Quality Egg project *is* still actively being developed
- We (other members of the community, including myself) continue to work on improving hardware, firmware, and software across the board, as well as deploying more Eggs worldwide
- I'm not going to bash Smart Citizen (they use the same fundamental sensor technology as Air Quality Egg after all) but don't they have their own forums?

Kind Regards,
Vic

Benjamin Lebsanft

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Apr 3, 2014, 4:45:13 AM4/3/14
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Hi Vic,

I didn't want to insult anyone from the team but I find the whole
situation worrying as a highest level single egg pledger. I still don't
have my radiation sensor after what now, almost two years?

Then this whole pachube, cosm, xively transition which removed almost
all useful features for me like live graphing etc. I know I can get the
data and plot it myself.

Then I still didn't find out how to reprogram my one sensorboard which
identifies itself as the wrong sensor. I don't know if there is an easy
way to use e.g. a usb console cable.

There is, to my knowledge, no mobile app for easily viewing the data of
your own egg, like live plots etc. directly on your smartphone, which
would be very nice.

Sorry again if you felt insulted by my mail but I'm not very happy about
my investment at the moment and don't feel the enthusiasm I felt when
backing the project which though I still think is a very important one.

Best regards
Ben

Mark Silverberg

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Apr 9, 2014, 2:42:00 PM4/9/14
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Hi Nif - I count 7 Sydney eggs http://airqualityegg.askopendata.com/ which is my mirror of AirQualityEgg.com but with an effort to show ALL eggs on Xively and not just the first 100 which the current site has a bug related to (see github and this message board if you're interested.

Attaching a screenshot of the east coast of Australia. Hope this helps.

Air_Quality_Egg_and_Things_and_Adobe_Application_Manager_and_vagrant_—_vagrant_precise32___usr_lib_ckan_default_—_ssh_—_230×70.png

Victor Aprea

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Apr 9, 2014, 3:16:53 PM4/9/14
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Mark,

What do you think the next steps are on getting your fork merged / deployed to airqualityegg.com? How can I help out?

On an unrelated note, do you have any slick ideas on how to handle overlapping eggs (at least at the m most local zoom)?

Regards,
Vic

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Mark Silverberg

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Apr 9, 2014, 3:23:42 PM4/9/14
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You can see my changes from the live site to my own fork at https://github.com/marks/airqualityegg.com/compare/xively:master...master and you should be able to create a PR and accept it all yourself and deploy if you choose to.

As with the second question, I would suggest using something like clustering as seen in this Leaflet example: http://leaflet.github.io/Leaflet.markercluster/example/marker-clustering-realworld.388.html which would require a change from Google Maps to Leaflet. I dont see any options for something like this using Google Maps.

vicatcu

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Apr 14, 2014, 10:18:38 AM4/14/14
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Mark,

Looking at Git-Hub it looks like you are continuing to make some pretty cool progress with adding stuff like heat maps and pulling in other data. Leaflet seems pretty nice too, if you wanted to depart from Google maps, I don't mind, not sure if others have a stronger opinion on the matter.

Regards,
Vic

Mark Silverberg

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Apr 14, 2014, 10:23:06 AM4/14/14
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Vic - yes, I am adopting airqualityegg.com <http://airqualityegg.com> for
a project related to not only eggs but air quality in general where we
want to map AirNowAPI.org <http://AirNowAPI.org> (EPA and
Canadian-equivalent it looks like) monitoring sites and, among other
things, make the AQE more user friendly (I.e. ³CO is at Xppb - so what? Is
that good or bad?²).

I have indeed moved to Leaflet for a number of reasons.

Since I do not personally have an egg, I have been commenting out some
code related editing an egg¹s location though I am confident I can circle
back later and get that part of my fork working once again if needed.

Mark

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Amy Wilson-Chapman

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Apr 15, 2014, 3:15:13 AM4/15/14
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You might be interested in this Facebook/Twitter. It's used in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (most polluted city in the world) and communicates with locals about the current air quality (PM2.5/PM10 specifically).

https://www.facebook.com/UBAirQuality

We don't use AQE but will use something similar as of next month to get journalists reporting on the topic here.

Zach Fine

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Aug 5, 2014, 10:02:33 AM8/5/14
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I was told the radiation sensor isn't going to be produced, but that the design was done. I guess maybe the design ate up the money? If the components were ordered I wouldn't mind just receiving those and hooking 'em to an arduino myself.
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