Altruist

The Altruist integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] connects Home Assistant to Air Quality Sensor “Altruist“ — a device designed for decentralized environmental monitoring. It captures noise, dust, and temperature data from the sensor over HTTP, making it available as locally usable entities within Home Assistant.

Configuration

To add the Altruist device to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Altruist can be auto-discovered by Home Assistant. If an instance was found, it will be shown as Discovered. You can then set it up right away.

Available sensors

The integration will fetch data from each device. The following sensors are supported:

• Humidity
• Temperature
• Atmospheric pressure
• PM2.5 density
• PM10 density
• Ambient noise level
• Carbon dioxide (CO2) level
• Total volatile organic compounds (TVOC)
• Ambient radiation level
• Wi-Fi signal strength

Removing the integration

This integration follows standard integration removal, no extra steps are required.

To remove an integration instance from Home Assistant

1. Go to Settings > Devices & services and select the integration card.
2. Next to the entry you want to remove, select the three dots menu. Then, select Delete.
   • Depending on the integration, the entries are listed under one of the following headings:
     • Devices
     • Hubs
     • Services
     • Integration entries
3. To confirm, select Delete.
   • Home Assistant also deletes the devices and entities of the entry.
4. If Home Assistant asks you to restart, restart Home Assistant.
5. If Home Assistant asks whether to also delete the application credentials, select Remove or Keep.
   • If you keep them, Home Assistant uses them automatically when you add the integration again.
   • To delete them later, refer to Deleting application credentials.