Airgradient Prometheus Flask App

Airgradient is an open air quality monitoring solution with DIY offerings utilising an ESP8266 microcontroller.

The example DIY code defaults to sending metrics to Airgradient.

airgradient.py

This is a very simple (probably bad!) Flask app to act as a receiver for Airgradient metrics for those who change APIROOT in the root to point to this app (as long as it's accessible).

Prometheus can then be configured to collect metrics using the exporter at /metrics.

The app should work with multiple devices.

Metrics and Labels

The metrics received are

• atmp: Temperature
• rhum: Humidity
• wifi: Wifi signal strength
• pm02: Particulate Matter (PM2.5)
• rco2: CO2

Each metric has an associated label of device_id to help identify metrics for a specific device.

Testing

Run via flask in a local dev environment with eg. DEBUG=true python -m flask --app airgradient --debug run --host 0.0.0.0.

If you use WSL2 then look at port forwarding to WSL with netsh.

Docker

In project root directory you can build the image with docker -t <tag> build . then run with eg. docker run -it.