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title: World Air Quality Index (WAQI)
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description: Instructions on how to setup World Air Quality Index sensor in Home Assistant.
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ha_category:
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- Health
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ha_release: 0.34
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ha_iot_class: Cloud Polling
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ha_codeowners:
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- '@joostlek'
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ha_domain: waqi
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ha_platforms:
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- sensor
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ha_integration_type: integration
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ha_config_flow: true
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---
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The **World Air Quality Index (WAQI)** {% term integration %} will query [World Air Quality Index](https://aqicn.org/city/beijing/) service to check AQI value for a specific set of locations. The resulting indexes will be added to the Home Assistant as sensor outputs.
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## Setup
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This sensor requires an API token. Please obtain one at [AQICN API token](https://aqicn.org/data-platform/token/#/).
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{% include integrations/config_flow.md %}
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The value reported is an overall AQ index for the location. The values of the index can be interpreted as following:
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| AQI | Status | Description |
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|-----------|:----------------------------------:|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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| 0 - 50 | **Good** | Air quality is considered satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk |
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| 51 - 100 | **Moderate** | Air quality is acceptable; however, for some pollutants there may be a moderate health concern for a very small number of people who are unusually sensitive to air pollution |
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| 101 - 150 | **Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups** | Members of sensitive groups may experience health effects. The general public is not likely to be affected |
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| 151 - 200 | **Unhealthy** | Everyone may begin to experience health effects; members of sensitive groups may experience more serious health effects |
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| 201 - 300 | **Very unhealthy** | Health warnings of emergency conditions. The entire population is more likely to be affected |
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| 301+ | **Hazardous** | Health alert: everyone may experience more serious health effects
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Further information about AQI can be found [on the EPA's AirNOW website](https://www.airnow.gov/aqi/aqi-basics/).
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