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I am in central Europe and I have both the AirGradient One and the AirQ Basic. The AirQ is much more capable, with more sensors (especially a dedicated VOCs sensor), and has a better design, and the Home Assistant integration works really well locally. It is quite expensive though.

The AirGradient One took a long time to ship (almost three months, but that was expected and communicated clearly by the AirGradient folks) but it definitely is available for shipping to Europe, so probably also the UK. It has fewer sensors but you can (and I did) flash it and customise it with Esphome. Look for the github repos of user MallocArray. So it also works very well locally, using the esphome integration.

So it really depends on what you want to measure. If it is just Co2 and pm2.5 then the AirGradient is probably enough and much cheaper. With the AirQ you pay a lot more but you get many more sensors.

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I see. Never used NFC for much other than mobile pay, pairing Bluetooth devices and occasionally reading NFC tags for specific tasks. RFID or NFC train passes aren’t a thing where I live and I don’t think I ever used Beam or something like it with NFC (nowadays there is Nearby Share which is just Bluetooth, I think). So I was confused why you would say Android removed NFC, because for me it works just like it has from the beginning.

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NFC isn’t going anywhere, what are you on about?

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It’s called that because 20 years ago when the guide was first written there was no Gmail or any comparable service of that magnitude. Sure you had GMX or Hotmail but most people online back then had an email account hosted by their ISP. That was the most common way to get access to email.

The ISP Mail guide describes how to set up a mail server infrastructure similar to what an ISP mail service would provide, back then.

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