Altruist
altruist
The Altruist integration connects Home Assistant to Air Quality Sensor “Altruist“, a device designed for decentralized environmental monitoring. It captures noise, dust, and temperature data from the sensor over HTTP, making it available as locally usable entities within Home Assistant.
In Apple Home through HomeKit Bridge
What HomeKit Bridge makes of each kind of entity this integration creates, read from its source code. A device only gets the ones that apply to it.
| Entity | Shows up as | Note |
|---|---|---|
sensor | Sensor (CO₂, PM10, PM2.5, VOC, humidity, temperature) |
What people report
Altruist Insight air sensor works, including the newer BME680 variant.
- Works1
| Device | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altruist Insight air quality sensor | Works | BME680 variant support addedSaved copyProposed change We've switched to BME680 t/h/p sensors in Altruist Insight. It provides the same data in the same format, just the sensor name is different. I've added support of the BME680 ## Type of change <!-- What type of change does your PR introduce to Home Assistant? NO Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | PR #153463 · 2025-10 |
Gathered from GitHub issues, pull requests, discussions and docs, and from r/homeassistant. These are individual reports, so check the linked thread and the date before you buy.
How it connects
Local polling
Talks to the device on your network, asking it for updates every so often.
Found automatically over
- Bonjour (zeroconf)
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 4 |
|---|---|
| Quality scale | Bronze |
| Added in | Home Assistant 2025.7 |
| Set up in the UI | Yes |
| Maintainers | @airalab, @LoSk-p |
In ReReHome
Whatever HomeKit Bridge shares reaches Apple Home as normal HomeKit accessories behind your Home Assistant bridge, so ReReHome shows and controls them like any other.
Bridges get their own settings page listing the accessories behind them.
