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Airthings has Airthings View Plus: Smart Indoor Air Quality Monitor on sale for $210. Shipping is free.

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  • 7 sensors including radon, PM 2.5, and CO2
  • WiFi connected and cable-free
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Airthings has their best home model, the View Plus for $210 instead of $299 for Black Friday. If you have AMEX for Small business saturday, that takes $5 more off via a statement credit.

https://www.airthings.com/view-plus

It reads out air quality with 7 sensors: Radon, particulate matter (PM2.5), Carbon dioxide (CO2), temperature, humidity, airborne chemicals (VOC), and air pressure. Optional app displays history of the room you have it in from current, to 24 hours, to week, to a month, to a year on a graph. I've attached a screen grab from our main room sensor particulate graph for the last 7 days so you can see what it looks like. Your graph will probably be more alarming if you haven't been managing air quality before you turn this on. Ours was initially crazy.

We use these as our main home air quality meters in the two rooms with the most concern - the main family room/kitchen, and my home office where I have a bunch of (enclosed) 3D printers. We have ARANET4 Co2 monitors (also on sale, for $141 here - https://shop.aranet.com/north-ame...anet4-home) in the bedrooms as supplemental units. You would likely be SHOCKED how bad your air quality is, especially in a newer home built to be airtight without an AC system that blends in air from outside. And that poor air quality affects your cognition. Once you know how bad your air is, you can bring in air from outside in the evenings to improve your air quality through the day.

The Airthings unit is WiFi connected, made in Europe, NOT China, so fewer spying worries.

60 Minutes recently showed Airthings view sensors in new "clean office" buildings made by Amazon, Paramount, etc.

https://youtu.be/WxEssOeEsVk?si=n...M2Kb&t=509

REGISTER WITHIN 30 DAYS for a FIVE (5) YEAR WARRANTY:
https://www.airthings.com/legal/e...r-warranty

I've attached the California EPA Radon risk map. There is one for all 50 states online. Red bad, yellow less bad.


EDIT: Thanks lolopolo and Factorialize for the welcome code and AMEX SBS info.
EDIT2: WELCOME10 code is dead
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They're very accurate and trustworthy from what I've read. The commercial version is networked at a new skyscraper for Amazon where air quality is the key feature and they have Airthings monitors on every level and huge intakes on the roof to pull in, filter, and blend air from outside to address CO2 issues. I'll try to find a link to that show and refresh my memory on it. It was a surprise to see Airthings pop up randomly in the show.

EDIT: It was 60 minutes 3 weeks ago. I made a post with a link, but am adding it here, too:
https://youtu.be/WxEssOeEsVk?si=n...M2Kb&t=509


I do not know what the lifespan is on the various sensors, but given that carbon monoxide alarms for homes are rated at 10 years, I would say that is an absolute maximum for other sensors in this.

One thing I didn't mention is there's a small fan you can hear going off occasionally if the room is very quiet. I'm assuming it's to get more air across the sensors when it needs better flow for sampling. It's not loud, but it is audible in a very quiet room, like a bedroom at night.
We got window fans (Genesis twin - this exact one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CK64AQG , don't get the cheapies, the motors burn up - we learned this the hard way) and air purifiers (Winix, $99 on sale, costco: https://www.costco.com/winix-true...93012.html ). In the evenings (or morning, depending on season) we turn off the A/C and put the window fans at the back and front of the house to pull in fresh air from outside to address the CO2 daily and put the AC unit on "circulate" so it puts that fresh air throughout the house. The the winix hepa filters (4 of them) clean the air at various points in the house. Overall it works great, except in Summer when it gets very hot here, so the time when you can open a window is very small each day.

The ultimate solution is to get an AC unit that can blend in outside air. Those are either code or about to become code for new construction in CA, but it was not even a thought when our house was built in 2000 when making the home as airtight as possible was thought to be the best. They're now finding out it's terrible for health.

So, when our AC unit fails, the new unit will have that outside air blending ability. Until then, the window fan/winix solution works fine.
Ah, YES. Stovetop cooking is a big polluter indoors, we learned with this.
We use the highest exhaust fan vent setting on the stove hood now when cooking and are looking into getting an induction cooktop to get rid of the gas stove emissions. The change in readings when cooking is EYE OPENING. I had no idea.

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11-27-2023 at 04:27 PM.
11-27-2023 at 04:27 PM.
Quote from gaijin4life :
I should have said recently (relative to the whole timeline of Amazon). Basically just wanted to explain what those crazy company names of Amazon sellers was about.

Amazon also made a decision to make their search garbage and limit filtering so they can show you ads and paid promotion stuff that may not even relate to what you're looking for. It was a conscious choice because the ad revenue was more valuable than their customer experience.

Ridiculous.
Yup, but general population doesn't see it this way. Kind of happy I am not part of that group, kind of said that group is ballooning. I canceled Prime 7-8 years ago as I was seeing how they slowly reduced shopping benefits and increase cost by creating a market for things I don't need.
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11-27-2023 at 06:31 PM.
11-27-2023 at 06:31 PM.
Has anyone's order shipped yet? Mine is still processing. I'm guessing they may be waiting until the end of the sale to ship?
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11-27-2023 at 11:28 PM.
11-27-2023 at 11:28 PM.
Quote from onedollar :
Has anyone's order shipped yet? Mine is still processing. I'm guessing they may be waiting until the end of the sale to ship?
Website says:
CURRENTLY RESTOCKING Expect shipping first week of December
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11-28-2023 at 12:42 PM.
11-28-2023 at 12:42 PM.
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Amazon really has destroyed their platform with all the crazy chinese junk all over the place. It's interesting that the crazy random keyboard letter company names are a strategy, not a mistake. They do that so they can get a trademark on the "company name" because there's no prior art and no one in their right mind would want it. And they need a trademark because Amazon required some years ago, thinking it would cut down on the fly by night companies from China due to the time it takes to get a "normal" trademark registered. The Chinese companies gamed that system with the keyboard chaos company name generator that made lightning fast trademark approvals. They also almost destroyed the USPTO in the process because it was flooded with these garbage company applications. Anyway, just thought you might want to know why Amazon has been completely over-run with crazy company names like "WDFITGER" and "SODFAQWL".
yep, learning about the trademark stuff was interesting and imo made me more critical of amazon than the sellers (who are doing what they literally have to do)

i have found randletters brands are fine (though you will see a *lot* of repetitive products, ofc). in most cases they're fine quality, generally on par with generics and occasionally better than name brand.

that said, there are product categories where generics are complete garbage, and air sensors are absolutely in that category (tbh a lot of electronics unless they are purely commodities or not something I need high reliability with (eg, an electric lint shaver))

oh and you do have a good general point that amazon does a bad job of, like, being a marketplace because they don't have any functionality to make shopping through that flood of identical products an efficient process

amazon's been walking back the "world's most customer-centric company" a lot but the past handful of years they've gone hard on killing off anything done for the customer instead of "make numbers go up"

otoh it's way better than google shopping, which highlights literal we-just-take-your-money-and-send-nothing-lol scams
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12-03-2023 at 08:39 PM.
12-03-2023 at 08:39 PM.
Received my order yesterday via UPS even though their website still says it's "processing" with no mention of a shipping/tracking information.

What's even more interesting (to me) is that this product is assembled in Tunisia. I had to look up where that country is. First time I've had a product was made from there.

Update:
Free warranty extension from 12 months to 5 years by registering within 30 days of purchase:
https://cms.airthings.com/for-hom...-my-device
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12-10-2023 at 06:00 PM.
12-10-2023 at 06:00 PM.
Quote from onedollar :
Received my order yesterday via UPS even though their website still says it's "processing" with no mention of a shipping/tracking information.

What's even more interesting (to me) is that this product is assembled in Tunisia. I had to look up where that country is. First time I've had a product was made from there.

Update:
Free warranty extension from 12 months to 5 years by registering within 30 days of purchase:
https://cms.airthings.com/for-hom...-my-device

Thanks just registered mine.

Got it yesterday, shocked by the pm2.5 levels and we haven't used the gas stove in days. I've got an air purifier in the same room and cannot get this value to a "safe" level at all
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12-13-2023 at 02:31 AM.
12-13-2023 at 02:31 AM.
Registered mine successfully but now I feel I need to buy another one or a device from another company because unless your numbers are wildly high there's no way to know if sensor is going bad unless you have something to compare it to.
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12-13-2023 at 02:33 AM.
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Quote from mkdenar :
Thanks just registered mine.

Got it yesterday, shocked by the pm2.5 levels and we haven't used the gas stove in days. I've got an air purifier in the same room and cannot get this value to a "safe" level at all
My PM2.5 levels say 0 and I used oven yesterday and a gas wall heater today. My VOC went up to yellow level at over 600. It also says my Co2 levels are high. It was over 2000 in my office which is supposed to be unhealthy. Pushed a bunch of air in by opening windows and with fan and got it down under 1000 but even after a couple hours with a fan I could never get below 800 which is what is needed for good quality. Do I need keep windows open all day? That's not really viable since I need to go to work and then I get home and it's cold in the evenings. Had to close windows after getting under 1000 and Co2 went back up to 1500 pretty quickly with just me in the room and I'm back to poor air quality. Great...
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12-28-2023 at 12:52 AM.
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Don't forget to register your device(s) within 30-days of purchase to get the extended 5-year warranty for free.
https://www.airthings.com/legal/e...r-warranty
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Would this cause panic, which itself is a risk factor for health,?
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Quote from namlook :
My PM2.5 levels say 0 and I used oven yesterday and a gas wall heater today. My VOC went up to yellow level at over 600. It also says my Co2 levels are high. It was over 2000 in my office which is supposed to be unhealthy. Pushed a bunch of air in by opening windows and with fan and got it down under 1000 but even after a couple hours with a fan I could never get below 800 which is what is needed for good quality. Do I need keep windows open all day? That's not really viable since I need to go to work and then I get home and it's cold in the evenings. Had to close windows after getting under 1000 and Co2 went back up to 1500 pretty quickly with just me in the room and I'm back to poor air quality. Great...
This video summarizes some CO2 remediation steps without needing to keep windows open. In my case, scheduling the air conditioner (or heater) to run at certain times of the day even when I am not at home ensures that circulation is happening, even when ventilation is not. While direct outside air intake is the best option, that's not practical in many cases, and so doing what you can to circulate air within the home is the next best thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80r9qwJPcTI
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04-30-2024 at 06:37 AM.
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Is 210 a common everyday price now? It's listed as such now.
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Is 210 a common everyday price now? It's listed as such now.

Not sure but thanks for the heads up. Curious if anyone compared this to Amazon's device. Obviously that doesn't have Radon detection feature
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