Deadcloud
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Foobot air quality monitor

Models Foobot
Cloud died Unverified

Broken

  • The Foobot app
  • Alerts and saved history

Fixable

  • Live readings on your own network
  • Readings in Home Assistant

Still works

  • The light ring, though it may stop updating

I couldn’t find a date for when Foobot’s servers went down. Airboxlab never announced it anywhere I could find, and their old consumer site now forwards to a business product. If you know when yours stopped, tell me.

You can get readings back without opening the Foobot. foobot-local points the monitor’s Wi-Fi chip at a small server you run at home (a Raspberry Pi is plenty) and decodes the readings itself. You’ll need to be okay editing a config file and running a Python script.

What to do

  1. Read the foobot-local README. You’ll need a Linux machine with Python 3 and dnsmasq.
  2. Follow its steps to point your Foobot at that machine.
  3. If the Foobot fell off your Wi-Fi, the project has a reconnect tool too.

Your old history on Airboxlab’s servers is gone.

Did it work?

Let me know either way.

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