This is a good time to point out that this is not a manual, but what it will do is show what I can do and what is possible. And with a bit of luck, you might take n interest in your air quality as well.

I have two methods to monitor pollution. The first is a Flow from Plume Labs which I can take with me, and a Raspberry Pi fitted with a PM5003 particulate sensor and a BME280 sensor, which is outside my window and has been connected to the Luftdaten network since 9th September 2020. This gives me the ability to compare my readings with the official Air Quality England data.

First, we need to work our how to plot one pollutant and decide how I want to see it. I’m going to use the data I have for September 2020 from my monitor outside which I…