IMO it’s absurd that you cannot download over your local LAN and have to rig up a Raspberry Pi (or similar) to read via BLE. That turned me off, although I’m still looking for a sensor with radon.
I'm sure you could use a Pi to pull in the data manually via ble if you have no other uses for Home Assistant.
> super easy to setup & 'just works'.
Yeah right. Please tell my mom again how super easy to setup an esp32 is and that it 'just works'.
If mom doesn't want to use the free cloud she might need some help, but it's about as simple as it could be for self hosting, not sure how they could make it easier.
Nobody said anything about having your non-technical mom set it up. The context was using a raspberry pi and ble to pull data from a sensor which heavily implies the person wishing to do it has a decent technical background. What I said is completely reasonable in this context.
Hosting a local server to do data collection isn’t normally something a non-technical person cares about in the slightest to begin with, so it’s pretty irrelevant. Having my devices local and using a hub of sorts to do everything is ideal, to non-technical people it’s a huge hassle. They want cloud enabled easy setup devices.
Or just buy the more expensive model that talks wifi and plug in a USB-c to power it.
We are talking about the Wave Plus, no?
https://www.airthings.com/view-plus
It can run on batteries, but then you lose the functionality of bridging from BLE to wifi.