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Hey, so the air quality sensor is a Purple Air PAII https://www2.purpleair.com, after you mount & register it, the sensor communicates to a 3rd party (wunderground I believe), processes it, and updates the map & API, which I consume. It only tracks particles in the air, and not gases. I've been trying to secure an air quality sensor that does PM2.5/PM10 + gases, but they're all very scientific, and come with a very high price tag.

The boat/ship tracking is provided by Fleet Mon, I host one of their AIS trackers. Air traffic is provided by Aviation Edge.

There are other monitors in the region, but not in my community: https://aqicn.org/city/usa/indiana/gary-iitri, but I have no information about them, their data, or anything. If it was open source, I probably would trust it more than I do now.

Thank you, I'm still coming to terms with it, but life goes on I guess, just gotta take the lows with the highs.

edit, just realised I never answered your question, the source code is on github: https://github.com/kingsloi/community-airmonitor



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