IKEA Air Quality Sensor in Home Assistant: How to Make IKEA Vindriktning Smart 

One issue with this sensor is at night it keeps the LEDs on. To fix this I started hacking these further by replacing the LEDs with 3 WS2811 LEDs that when the LUX is low it turns off the LEDs in tasmota. Then using tasmota rules to change the LEDs based on the levels. I've also really enjoyed adding sensors to this device. I'd send you a diagram and pics if you'd like. Been running these with a LUX sensor (BH1750), Temp and Humidity sensor (BME280). This sensor can also show the PM1 and PM10 levels, you just have to compile the options into tasmota: VINDRIKTNING_SHOW_PM1 and VINDRIKTNING_SHOW_PM10. Been really loving it! Excellent video!

Great tutorial, very detailed and crystal clear. Works like a charm. Soldering was the hardest part :) Thank you!

Doing this project tomorrow. It will be my first time soldering anything so it looks to be a good starting little project. Thanks for the detailed video!

Great tutorial ! Thank you ! I have been suffering with a Arduino mini pro for a couple of days; this seems to be so easy that I will desolder everything and switch to D1 mini and Tasmota !

Thanks, Kiril. I go this working fine after eventually struggling with the MQTT Broker. Thanks a lot!

Nice and clear instructions video, as always! I just suggest that connecting directly REST pin to D1 Mini should be a problem in the long run as the sensor (PM1006K) signal is 5V and the D1 Mini (ESP) port is 3.3V. So adding a voltage divider with 3 simple resistors will do the job and still fit inside the box. Greetings from Portugal.

Thanks for the tutorial, just hacked this up today, works fine!

Exactly what I was looking for!

Do you know how exact the values are? How well does it measure?

Thank you for this hack. I will check in my local IKEA for these sensors. Can you do a follow up with ESPhome firmware and with the Caleb Pryor upgrade for the other PM values and additional sensors?

Thank you for the good explenation- I tried to rebuilt it, but I do not get the Quality level - even not at the Tansmota side of my D1-Mini Any idea what I made wrong? - I found it: it was a too massive soldering of the ground wire touching the condensator near by. Proble I observe now is that the update rate in HA is much lower than the one I can get at the D1-Tasmota-Interface. Any idea how to increas the update rate in HA?

I've put a D1 mini whit relay in my coffee grinder, too make it smart 😄

Nice tutorial 👍🏻 thank you

Thank you for a great guide, worked fine

Amazing work!

Great post, Thanks again for sharing. Let's visit IKEA tomorrow.

i bought a d1 mini ver 4 which does not have d1 pin instead it has pin 5 scl and pin 4 sda which one do i need to use and is tasmota generic 18 still the valid firmware for this mini d1 v4

I was going to do this with a NodeMCU but having opened up the Vindriktning I can see it's too big. Well, it could just about fit in but would block the airflow.

Tasmota flashing from browser... Awesome (except you may be giving your wifi info out?) D1 mini looks cool too having usb and not needing ftd1 interface... NICE❣❣❣ I love making dumb things smarter!!! Great video👍

it's quite strange, i've had configured everything like you said and worked fine, untill like 1/2 weeks and now it doesnt recognise anymore it like a sensor with micrometer (like where you said "here you can see vindrikting with 13 micrometer" in the tasmoadmin config) but only with a switch, what happened?

Nice video like always, but what about the quality of the sensor? it is at any good, because is from Ikea... and maybe you can make a follow up video with mod from Caleb Pryor (from comments). That would be nice, BTW how can I test it to see how good the readings are? any idea?

Could you figure out how to add a simple chargeable battery inside so that we can use it without cable? Seems to be enough space in there

My classic luck ... Used a NodeMCU ESP8266 (specifically AZDelivery 3 NodeMCU Amica V2 ESP8266 ESP-12F) with Vindriktning. Wasn't working with Chrome flash thing, so i used Tasmotizer with all-sensor.bin. Everything working fine but no output ... I try to connect a BM680 and all readings show. Vindriktning in the meanwhile is working fine (lights ok, reacting as intended). I try to resolder the "Rest" pin in the Vindriktning (no luck). I try and switch the pin in the ESP8266, but BM680 is always working and Vindriktning is not showing even using the same D pins. Looks like the "Rest" pin in the Vindriktning is not giving any output. Is it possible? I did not find anything on this issue on Internet, so maybe i'm the only one ... BTW ... your tutorial is the best i found !!!

I really like your DIY videos. However it would have been great if you could incorporate the hacking of Förnufting air purifier as well

Thanks I followed your steps all worked fine but now on home assistant it is showing "VINDRIKTNING PM2.5 Unavailable" while on the device when I access it using the ip on the browser I get "Air Sensor Living VINDRIKTNING PM 2.5 µm 29 µg/m³ " Can you tell me what is wrong

Non smart hack: is it possible to mod the IKEA sensor as a switch? Just to power on an separate fan if air quality is bad? Many thanks

Have you thought about trying this with the Atom M5stack (very small) and also making it a bluetooth proxy?

Is it possible to do the same with Esp Home?

Great video!

ESP based sensors have been around in videos for years. BRUH Automation had a great one a few years ago when he use to make videos with 3D printed case. I do like the Ikea case. It is really quite good. The only issue I have with ESP based sensors is getting power to them neatly. Especially if you include a motion or light sensor in the "multi sensor" and you need to put it up on a wall somewhere. Batteries are just not a good option in ESP based sensors, even using sleep modes.

any chances on making it using ESP Home instead of tasmota?

Hi Amigo! Shaving machine broken ? : )

i have downloaded and installed Tasmota Version 11.1.0(sensors)-2_7_4_9(2022-04-13T06:40:38) and the Vindrikting sensor is not showing has it been removed thanksd

cool, I haven't understand a thing :D

We don't want it to be "smart". All I need to do is look at it over the security camera and I can tell if the air quality has changed by the color.