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I can recommend against one type of bad sensors. VOC sensors paired with a temperature sensor that can generate “eCO2” value is known bad, such as CCS811/BME280 combo board.

Those sensors guesstimate CO2 concentration from air temperature and changes in ambient alcohol/acetone/hydrocarbon levels, which drifts into positive infinity and is simply do not correlate well with actual CO2 level.

Those sensors are dirt cheap, and can still be used as a rule of thumb to encourage regular ventilation, but are nothing more than that. If you want to actually see CO2 levels, avoid those.




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