https://karlquinsland.com/categories/home-automation/Recent content in Home-Automation on karlHugoen-usSat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://karlquinsland.com/converting-purpleair-classic-to-esphome/Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://karlquinsland.com/converting-purpleair-classic-to-esphome/<h1 id="converting-a-purpleair-classic-to-esphome">Converting a PurpleAir Classic to ESPHome</h1> <p>I still don&rsquo;t 100% know what the issue is but for the past several months, my <a href="https://www2.purpleair.com/products/purpleair-pa-ii" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreffer ">PurpleAir Classic</a> sensor has been incredibly flakey when it comes to reporting data. Home Assistant would report random bouts of &ldquo;timeouts&rdquo; while trying to poll the sensor and that would result in gaps in the data. In the best case, the gaps were only a few minutes long but sometimes they would last for <em>hours</em> at a time.</p>