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I bought Air Quality sensors for reasons. This is the current reading on my balcony (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by lfzs to c/greater_sudbury

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[–] lfzs 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Got it. They have an ESP chip in them, so they have wifi.

One is ESP32-C3 and the other is ESP8266.

But I'm powering them with the included cable, which is pretty decent. You can certainly power it with battery but I have no idea about its power consumption.

[–] SRGray 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah. I suspected ESP had wifi buit-in, but I've never used ESP myself.

If the power draw is about the same as a security camera, it could perhaps be plugged into one of the small solar units meant for an external camera.

Now that I know it's wifi, I may just need to get one and see if it'll work with my solar cells. Should be a fun experiment!

Thanks for answering my questions!

[–] lfzs 1 points 2 years ago

No problem. Happy to help!