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This one is neat, I might actually use it.

I don't understand why it includes indoor sensors at all let alone by default. Why would I want to know the temperature inside some random building?

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> I don't understand why it includes indoor sensors at all let alone by default.

Add location_type=0 to only get outdoor sensors

or just click the buttons that accomplish the same thing. The point is someone at PurpleAir is asleep at the wheel if such an obvious default configuration isn't being set. If they can't get such a basic thing right, why do we trust anything else from them? "Anything else" specifically including "running their software on a raspberry pi inside my home network".

Because PurpleAir is not a weather service, they’re a sensor company.

The project is using PurpleAir data.

Footer should say "Data from PurpleAir API" instead of "Data from SF Microclimates API"...

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