AQI numbers are dangerously misleading when one of the channels from the sensor is busted. about aqi-wtf

[obra]

I mean, I think that if one of the sensors is zeroed out and the other sensor is not, we should probably just ignore that sensor

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On Sep 8, 2020, at 6:15 PM, Mike Skalnik ***@***.***> wrote:  Ooh, yeah this is definitely a problem. I reformatted that JSON a bit nicer and nothing jumps out as easy to detect as "degraded" other than all of the pm_n_n values being 0. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

[skalnik]

Ooh, yeah this is definitely a problem. I reformatted that JSON a bit nicer and nothing jumps out as easy to detect as "degraded" other than all of the pm_n_n values being 0.

[skalnik]

Maybe it's worth ignoring the overall PM2_5 value from a sensor if it's out of a specific range or if it's 0 and the other value is more than like 3 away?

[obra]

End-user reports that the new code appears to work. (Though comments that the color scheme doesn't seem to match PA)

[skalnik]

(Though comments that the color scheme doesn't seem to match PA)

Yeah I think this is tracked over in #5. PA does a nice gradient adjustment of the color, where as we just have the one specific color per level.