Air Visual Card

This is a Home Assistant Lovelace card that uses the AirVisual component or World Air Quality Index (WAQI) component to provide air quality index (AQI) data and creates a card like the ones found on AirVisual website. Requires the AirVisual component or World Air Quality Index (WAQI) component. Tested with Yahoo and Darksky Weather component.

Features

• Card colors and icons change depending on AQI level

Options

Main Options

Name	Type	Default	Supported options	Description
type	string	Required	custom:air-visual-card	Type of the card
air_pollution_level	string	Required	sensor.u_s_air_pollution_level	Name of the Air Pollution Level sensor.
air_quality_index	string	optional	sensor.u_s_air_quality_index	Name of the Air Quality Index sensor. If sensor does not exist, do not add this config value.
main_pollutant	string	optional	sensor.u_s_main_pollutant	Name of the Main Pollutant sensor. If sensor does not exist, do not add this config value.
weather	string	optional	weather.dark_sky	Name of the weather entity if you wish to display temperature, humidity and wind information on the card.
country	string	US	mdi:air-conditioner	Name of the country that Airvisual is collecting AQI data from.
city	string	optional	San Francisco	Name of the city that AirVisual is collecting AQI data from.
unit_of_measurement	string	optional	AQI	Unit of measurement
icons	string	/hacsfiles/air-visual-card	/hacsfiles/air-visual-card	The local directory where the .svg files are located. For example, 'icons: "/hacsfiles/air-visual-card"' is appropriate if this plugin is installed using HACS. If left blank, icons will be loaded from default location.
hide_title	boolean	true	true	false
hide_face	boolean	false	true	false
hide_weather	boolean	true	true	false

HACS Installation

1. Open the HACS on your Home Assistant instance.
2. Open the Plugins section and click on the Air Visual Card.
3. Click on Install, then click on "Add to Lovelace"

Manual Installation

1. Download the AirVisual Card
2. Place the file in your config/www folder
3. Include the card code in the Resources section of your ui-lovelace-card.yaml like below:

resources:
  - url: /local/air-visual-card/air-visual-card.js
    type: js

4. Optional: If you wish to store the Airvisual icons locally, then download the icons here.

5. Save the icons in a directory in Home Assistant, such as /local/air-visual-card

6. Update the card configuration in ui-lovelace.yaml to include the following (use directory name in step #7):

    icons: "/local/air-visual-card"

Instructions

1. Install the AirVisual sensor and confirm AQI, APL, and Main Pollutant sensors are created, like below.

2. Add a card in the Lovelace UI.
3. Search for air-visual-card and click the search result.
4. Fill out the card editor.

FAQ

• The card doesn't show the temperature properly.

  Let me know which weather provider you are using and I'll try to fix the issue. I have only tested with the Yahoo! Weather component. Optionally, if you create a template sensor that reports the temperature as its state, you can use that sensor as for the temp config.

• This card doesn't work in Fully Kiosk Browser on Amazon Fire tablets. Why?

  This card uses a new CSS function, CSS Grid Layout, which was implemented in October 2018, and isn't compatible with browsers using old versions of Android WebView. That's my guess anyways.

• The card is showing the word 'unavailable' instead of the AQI data!

  Most likely your Airvisual key expired (it has a one-year expiration) and needs to be recreated. Delete and recreate a new key on airvisual.com and save the key in your HA config file.

Support

I am studying programming as a hobby and this is my first set of Home Assistant projects. Unfortunately, I know nothing about Javascript and relied on studying other Lovelace custom cards to write this. Suggestions are welcome but no promises if I can fix anything! If you're familiar with CSS, then you can edit the CSS style in the .js file directly.

Credits

• All the custom HA cards and components I studied from, including @Arsaboo's Animated Weather card and Mini Media Player
• airvisual.com - For the card design and data
• Home Assistant Air Visual sensor
• Weather Card by @bramkragten - for the visual card editor