Amazon Smart Air Quality Monitor (Newest gen) | Know your air, Works with Alexa

Reliable and easy to use monitor that pairs greatly with Alexa and other smart home devices. You can set up a routine to turn on an air purifier if the monitor detects the air quality falls under a certain number, as an example. Sleek, small, and modern device that works reliably with coprehensive data about the air quality. Although I use Google Home on everything else, everything was easy to learn and there was no issues.

The Amazon Smart Air Quality Monitor is a rather marvellous device that I recently purchased to integrate with my home ventilation system. I was looking for a way to keep an eye on the air quality in my home and this device seemed like the perfect solution. While I do believe that the monitor itself is a great piece of kit, it is unfortunately rather limited by the Alexa ecosystem. There are many options to set up Alexa routines using various measured parameters, but these routines frequently do not run when they're meant to, even though the air quality has changed below or above a defined threshold. The built-in routines to alert an associated Alexa speaker when the air quality has changed to poor do seem to be working reliably, but custom routines can be a bit hit and miss. Furthermore, there is no official way to integrate this device with other home automation systems such as Home Assistant, which would make it much more versatile and popular. Additionally, the device takes a bit of time to boot up when first plugged in and some of the readings, such as VOCs, can be a bit confusing to interpret. Finally, it's a shame that the Alexa app requires quite a bit of navigation to see the air quality and that there is no option to use an Echo with a display to show the air quality as one of the slides. Despite these niggles, I do think that the Amazon Smart Air Quality Monitor is a decent option, especially if you are simply looking for something to check the air quality in your home and be alerted when it changes to poor. It is perhaps a bit pricey, especially if you need a few of these devices, but considering the alternatives on the market, it does seem like a good choice. Fun fact: this device is quite an eye-opener when it comes to the air quality in your kitchen when cooking, even on an electric stove! All in all, I would say that this device is a rather clever and useful piece of kit, even if it does have a few limitations.

I now have 2 of these. They was fairly straight forward to set up through the Alexa app. They have a variety readings for air quality. 2 of which I find myself checking a lot is the temprature and humity. I was also very curious about the air quality when cooking so one is near the kitchen and the other near the log burner. The one near the kitchen seems to pick up on changes in the when cooking pretty quickly. If people are curious about the actual size , it's smaller than a rubix cube so doesn't take up much space but needs to be plugged in for power. Kinda wish the app showed data from over a longer time period. I got both while on offer at half of the full price. I personally wouldn't pay full price for one. So I would recommend looking out for it on sale.

I bought this air quality monitor because my new air purifier doesn’t have an auto mode, and this has been the perfect solution. It gives me real-time readings for temperature, humidity, and PM2.5 levels, which is really helpful to keep an eye on the overall air quality in my home. I’ve set up smart routines so that when the air quality score drops below 50, my purifier automatically switches to a higher speed — and it works perfectly. The readings seem accurate and respond quickly when I do things like cook or open a window. It’s also handy to have temperature and humidity displayed, so I can monitor the overall comfort of the room at a glance. Overall, it’s a great little device that does exactly what I needed — reliable, responsive, and perfect for automating any purifier that doesn’t have its own smart sensors. Highly recommend!

I had mixed feelings about this one. On the positive side, it does work and seems to give useful readings once set up properly. Delivery was also smooth and on time, with no issues there. However, I didn’t fully realise how dependent it is on having an Alexa setup. I took it with me on some travels around South East Asia, and without an accompanying Alexa device it wasn’t nearly as useful as I’d hoped. That made it feel a bit limited for something that’s advertised as portable. I’ve also found the app controls a bit fiddly and not very intuitive. It’s not always quick or straightforward to just check air quality on demand, which is really the main reason for having it. Overall, it’s probably better suited to people who are already comfortable using Alexa and smart home setups. For more casual or on-the-go use, it can be a bit frustrating.

The Amazon Smart Air Quality Monitor is compact, easy to set up, and works seamlessly with Alexa. It tracks temperature, humidity, and indoor pollutants accurately, giving clear insights through the app and voice updates. Ideal for anyone wanting to improve home air quality without fuss.

I had a wood burning stove so we have to have a CO detector nearby. Our old one is getting on so rather than just getting another dumb CO detector I thought I would get a unit that also detects PM2.5 - the bad 'particulate matter' that get's spoke about. There's a few of those about, but Amazon's own gadget seemed reasonably priced for what it can detect plus we use Alexas all over our house and I like the Alexa integration. To install you literally just plug it in and use the Alexa app to join it, done. There's an LED on the front that show green, amber or red for air quality, plus detailed info/charts in the Alexa app. This thing has literally saved a couple of ugly situations already - one of my young kids lit a candle, panicked and put it behind our TV, almost setting fire to cables and maybe more but the AQM started to say the air quality was getting very poor. Our kid owned up and we found the candle. You can configure actions in the Alexa app, e.g. tell me or do something if PM or CO exceeds a certain level. It does humidity, temperature, CO, PM2.5 and VOCs. The PM detection seems to work. We had our chimney swept last week and I noticed the Amazon AQM detected PM 2.5 shooting up then gradually tapered off after the sweep was done. Now I know why these guys suit up in biohazard gear and ask us not to stay in the room. The VOC detection is the only question mark for me... it is not clear to me what exactly these are (volatile organic compounds). It's definitely true lighting something like a scented candle sends these though the roof - maybe despite the nice smell these things are bad for your health!? - but we have had random VOC alerts with the unit showing there is a bad VOC level, yet we haven't got anything on, cooking, burning, spraying, that we can think of. I see a few others reported 'stray VOC alerts' about this too. Amazon will likely look into it but if you can ignore the few false alerts about VOCs, I like it.

This was a brilliantly insightful addition to my workshop. Simply plug and play. I have been 3D printing for some time now with little worry of any air born particles that it might give off, however with a little one on the way I was more curious. I purchased this with the knowledge that it can measure particles and VOCs in the atmosphere. However I am also impressed that it measures, Temperature, Humidity, PM (particulate matter) and Carbon monoxide. The information provided is excellent, and only takes 7mins for the sensor to calibrate itself. It then takes regular samples of the air feeding information to your mobiles device via Alexa. You can also ask Alexa for an update. I have added a pic for the VOCs just to demonstrate how it works when I used some super glue at 5:50pm. You can see how the 3D printer is a steady and safe 9, then the super glue shoots it up to 37. Whats more when I was preparing the item in question to glue I also did some sanding of the item. This actually showed up on the particulate matter reading as can be seen from my pictures. A brilliant piece of kit and I ma now at much greater piece of mind.