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.

Manual configuration steps

If it wasn’t discovered automatically, don’t worry! You can set up a manual integration entry:

  • Browse to your Home Assistant instance.

  • Go to Settings > Devices & Services.

  • In the bottom right corner, select the Add Integration button.

  • From the list, select Altruist.

  • Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.

IP Address

The local IP address for your Altruist device.

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. From the list of devices, select the integration instance you want to remove.
  3. Next to the entry, select the three dots menu. Then, select Delete.