Traffic Monitor enviroplus-monitor

Pimoroni Enviro+ air quality monitor sensors for Traffic Monitor

Based on the amazing work at https://github.com/roscoe81/enviro-monitor, which was based on https://github.com/pimoroni/enviroplus-python.

Config settings for TM

Relevant settings for Python script to interact with the Traffic Monitor Node-RED instance.

MQTT communications settings

• "enable_send_data_to_homemanager": true in order to send MQTT payloads to specified broker
• "mqtt_broker_name": "localhost" to send to Node-RED MQTT broker (assumes port 1883)
• "indoor_outdoor_function": "Outdoor" to utilize outdoor_mqtt_topic
• "enable_display": false since the AQ sensor will be in an enclosure
• "outdoor_mqtt_topic": "aq-readings" for message topic

Deployment-specific settings

These need to be configured per-deployment for your location. They are utilized by the Astral package for calculating the times of various aspects of the sun and phases of the moon.

    "altitude": 49,
    "city_name": "Portland",
    "time_zone": "America/Los_Angeles",
    "custom_locations": [
        "Portland, United States of America, America/Los_Angeles, 45.52, -122.681944"
    ]