World Air Quality Index (WAQI) in Home Assistant
waqi
part of Home Assistant since 0.34
World Air Quality Index (WAQI) is an official Home Assistant integration for Health. Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Cloud, polling – Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Online service
- Installations
- 4,722 (0.7 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Health
- Provides
- Diagnostics, Sensor
- Maintained by
- @joostlek
- Python packages
aiowaqi==3.1.0
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for World Air Quality Index (WAQI).
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Known issues and fixes
1 open issues and 0 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for World Air Quality Index (WAQI) in the Home Assistant issue tracker.
Open
- open Reported problem #179074
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 16, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration