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Let Home Assistant write metadata like area and height to InfluxDB

I have worked on a data model, implementation and Grafana dashboard that allows to store additional metadata like Home Assistant area/room, height of the sensor, serial number of the AirGradient that did the measurement in InfluxDB for later analysis. I wrote the details in this Home Assistant Community post.

I have now used this setup to test the performance of my old ventilation filter ePM10 compared to a fresh new ePM1. The graphs nicely show that the new filter removes basically all the PM2.5 while the old one only reduced PM2.5 by half.

Used ePM10 filter:

New ePM1 filter:

Not including location details in the Home Assistant entity_id keeps it very flexible and allows me to easily move a sensor to a new location and update the metadata in Home Assistant.

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