Airthings 2960 View Plus - Battery Powered Radon & Air Quality Monitor (PM, CO2, VOC, Humidity, Temp, Pressure)

Purchased this to track radon in our mostly-finished basement area. Wanted (1) A product that was wifi connected that could (2) track radon and humidity levels over a long period of time, (3) offered some kind of long-term dashboard/UI that was easy for human consumption, and (4) gave some level of warning if levels were astronomical. While spendy, this product was one of the only ones to check off all the boxes. I considered going with the bluetooth-only model to save money, but I'm really glad I didn't. The convenience of getting alerts from anywhere, seeing results any time of day or night is really worth the extra coin. I'll admit, Airthings really needs to work on their alerting system. Getting alerts about CO2 when working out in its vicinity, particulate matter alerts when cleaning, it's a bit annoying when the main alerts I want to see are radon and humidity, and I really wish they would allow you to set your own thresholds, but the smartphone app's UI and usability is exceptionally good and the product is easy to work with. My other nitpick would be battery life and/or no rechargeable batteries. The supplied batteries lasted for a solid 100-120 days or so. I replaced with my normal Energizer long-life battery and got maybe 75 days out of those before changing a couple weeks back to the next set. I usually can tell when the batteries are going because sometimes the results get a little crazy. I'd also like smartphone app alerts when the battery levels are, say, below 20% but I don't see that option. I mean, I'd love to just plug the unit into a power adapter and forego batteries totally, but I don't recall if it was an option on this unit, and batteries have sufficed. I may look into that later. Overall though, yes, it's expensive. But for constant monitoring, with alerts, to monitor all sorts of airborne levels, ACCURATELY, there isn't another product on the market I could find. I'm a satisfied customer, with a little polish in a few places, I could really see Airthings becoming a household name to the level that Ring and Nest have become. Great little product here!

This is incredibly expensive, but I love the results. I have no way to know if the readings are accurate. However, they do match what I see and do. I have the monitor out in the open. When we go to bed, the CO2 drops down to levels that are close to outdoors. As soon as I wake up, it starts rising again. I put the monitor in our bedroom and the patterns reverse. Overnight, the CO2 in an enclosed bedroom rises into the red zone. I was able to drop the levels drastically by changing the furnace fan to run 40-minutes/hour instead of 20-minutes/hour. Opening windows keeps the CO2 lower throughout the day. When someone exercises, it creates a noticeable spike in that room. Older people exercising generate less CO2 than younger people. When we cook bacon, the PM1 reading spikes, but the PM2.5 does not since the particles are too small. Turning on the cooktop fan drops the spike in half. The PM2.5 readings spiked the day before 4th of July and continued for 2-days after because of neighbors lighting fireworks nearby. We had the windows closed the entire time. For comparison, I do have experience with cheaper devices. My Ecobee's air quality monitor is useless. We get air quality alerts for no particular reason. The original Eve Room helped us to discover that the furnace in the garage was blowing auto exhaust into the house. The newer model has been completely useless. I am really interested to see the measurements in the winter when we can't open windows and the gas furnaces are running!

Bought my unit Jan 2025 and last week started having issues with my unit. Worked with support, ran through all the diagnostic steps, and determined that the CO2 sensor is faulty and no longer works...less than two years of purchasing. I did not sign up for the 5 year warranty (had no idea I was supposed to sign up for a “free” warranty), asked for grace or other ways to reclimate the issue, but was provided nothing more than a 30% discount to rebuy. Pretty frustrated with the entire customer service experience and the lack of a resloution. Overall, the quality of the actual units are quite low. I would highly advise looking for alternative option, you don't want to end up like me with a $350 paper weight, that has a cool app.

Key: If you can not afford to buy an Airthings monitor, just ventilate your rooms. This is not a sponsored, paid, discounted, freebie, or affiliate review. As a health care provider, I've evaluated, and treated 1000s of people with sleep/breathing issues. It's been an eye-opening experience to monitor air quality, mending air quality with ventilation, and its health outcomes. For decades, I thought I had terrible environmental allergy issues. However, using air filters and humidifiers did not help much. With AirThings, I've been monitoring volatile organic compounds (VOC), particles, carbon dioxide (CO2), humidity, and other parameters. I can not confirm its validity, accuracy, or precision. However, my 5-year-old son and I breathe so much better by keeping our VOC level down to 80-200 ppb and CO2 level down to 500 ppm. To maintain these levels, I ventilate rooms with outdoor air using a window fan 24/7 even in the winter. Yes, it increases my heating bill a bit, however, it's worth it. I breathe so much better and my sniffles have gone down by 70% and I do not wake up stuffy. I was also concerned about humidity and particle levels. With AirThings, I noticed that by circulating outdoor air in the living space, I can get particle levels down far better than using a room air filter. With monitoring humidity, I realized that humidity is not an issue in my home. Now, I don't use a humidifier or air filter, and I breathe a lot better. Initially, I almost returned the monitor due to initial Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connection issues. However, after 6 trials, I connected well. Since then, I've had no connection issues. Their old AirThings app was terrible. The new AirThings app released in Jan 2023 is exceptionally well designed with an intuitive interface.

The View Plus (2960) measures radon, PM, CO2, VOC as well as humidity, temperature and pressure. It also can display outdoor weather and temperature in areas where that service is available. We have it in our bedroom to keep track of indoor air quality where we spend 1/3 of every day. It's also great to see the outdoor temperature next to the bed when we wake up in the morning. I originally purchased the View Plus (2960) and one Wave Radon (2950) detector because we live in a high radon area (central Ohio). The 2960 has Wi-Fi and will collect data from other AirThings products and upload it to the AirThings dashboard. The wireless communication between the 2960 hub and the 2950 sensors is a proprietary protocol using the IEEE 802.15.4g standard. This is similar to Zigbee, INSTEON and Nest Protect home automation products. Based on my experience with other home-tech devices, I downloaded the app, and had all the devices near each other when I configured them. So, I had no difficulty setting them up. But wireless interference could be a problem and all of mine are within 50 feet of the hub. We put the 2950 in the basement. The dashboard is very helpful with radon because radon varies from hour to hour, day to day and seasonally. It is the long term average that indicates whether a health risk exists. I have a home office in the basement, and I've included a snippet from the dashboard of the radon levels recorded from late January through November 2022. This shows the variation, and how bad the levels were (over 22 pCi/L). Once we installed a mitigation system, the levels have dropped below 2 pCi/L. After the initial two weeks and I saw how bad the radon was, I purchased a second Wave Radon (2950) detector to have units in two parts of the basement (crawlspace and home office). After three months of monitoring, I was convinced we had a problem and we scheduled a radon mitigation contractor which was completed a few months later. After 8 months, I had a problem with the 2960. It showed really large numbers, then 0. I had already installed a mitigation system, so this was confusing. I purchased an AirThings Corentium to put side by side with the 2960, and proved to myself that the unit indeed was defective. The support person who originally picked up the ticket did nothing, and email for warranty service was ineffective. So I mentioned this in my previous review (since replaced with this one), and within two days a good support agent picked up the ticket, and helped me with the RMA process. It was disappointing that the unit failed, and that initial support was not helpful. However, the second agent was proactive, professional and communicated well and I was able to return the 2960 for a replacement unit. I've had the replacement for a week now, and it seems to be working fine. Based on the excellent response from the second agent, I will continue to recommend these products to friends. I can't quite give the product 5 stars because of the failure of the first agent, and the initially nonresponsive warranty process. However, if the product continues to do well, I can see myself raising the rating back to 5 stars at some future date. As a final note, if you are not sure if you need radon mitigation, and are wondering whether you should spend the money or are just technologically afraid, the AirThings Corentium is a great product too. It has no smart phone or Wi-Fi integration, but is a simple-to-use product that utilizes the same sensor that is in the 2950 and 2960 and gives 1 day, 7 day and 30 day average readings.

Tl:dr I recommend this product. I believe that it is currently the best on the market and provides a good array of sensors for the price. I have not received any financial or other consideration for this review. I have no connection to the company. Details, positive and negative, are found in the review. Intro: In operation (after 7-day calibration) for three weeks beginning October 2021. Unit is located indoors in the bedroom of a small single-story home in northern California. I purchased View Plus after an online evaluation of competitive units. The purchase decision was based on the array of sensors, acceptable display of sensor parameters, appearance of a good user interface, ability to easily download the data in Excel .csv file format, designed in Norway, and assembled in Tunisia (visible in product photos). I expect that this is the first product that I’ve ever owned that was assembled in Tunisia. There were no Amazon reviews as I purchased the unit as soon as it became available. My primary motivation for purchase was to measure indoor particulate pollution during the wildfires. I wanted a more quantitative measure than the colored indicators on our air purifiers. However, I have since become more interested in the carbon dioxide (CO2) and VOC levels. The inclusion of Radon, temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure sensors is a plus. Particulates: I have had an extended conversation with Airthings via the app. They are responsive, although it may take a few days or even a week, if you ask technical questions as these need to go to the engineering team. As this is a consumer and not scientific device, there are cost limits on the nature of the particle sensor. Airthings does calibrate the particulate sensor to a scientific instrument. However, the Airthings sensor is most likely not able to distinguish between different particle size and scattering distributions that give the same overall signal. I had plans to do a cross correlation study with a scientific instrument, but circumstances conspired against me. At this time, I am satisfied that Airthings has done enough work that the threshold limits (green <10, yellow <25, and red >25 µg/m3) for the PM 2.5 sensor are reasonably close to the equivalent limits used by the US EPA and European PM 2.5 AQI. For the data that I’ve collected, there is very little difference between PM 2.5 and PM 1 signals. I have not investigated why. One caveat is that the data collected so far has an average PM 2.5 and PM 1 values of only 2 µg/m3 and only a single peak greater than 25. Since the rains have (finally) come, I don’t expect to have the opportunity to check against more polluted air conditions in the near term. Carbon dioxide: This provided the most surprise about the conditions in our home. I found that ventilation in our bedroom is insufficient to keep levels in the green without the window(s) being open at night. I am looking into ways to ameliorate this problem when keeping the windows open is not an option. When I first received the unit, I placed it outdoors to see if it would read the expected value of about 400+ ppm for average CO2. The unit read about 550, but it was before the 7-day calibration was completed. Over the course of the past month, when the room was well ventilated, I observed readings as low as 469 ppm. The unit will show the increase in CO2 when either 1 or 2 people are in the unventilated room for any significant period of time. VOC (volatile organic compounds): The measurement is in parts per billion, ppb. This is my first experience with VOC data recording. The unit is certainly responsive and exhibits significant signal when we are cooking, especially frying. As there are many different types of VOC, I cannot comment on whether one should take significant actions based on the results in the home. Do fry-cooks have career related health issues? At a work environment, such as an organic chemistry lab, there may be many types of VOCs that are clearly harmful to health. Radon: All the values that I have recorded are below the green threshold limit of 2.7 pCi/L (picocuries per liter). The average value over 2000 measurements is 0.7 and has a standard deviation of ±0.4. Temperature: Comparing the value to household sensors indicates that the temperature displayed by the Airthings sensor maybe between 1- or 2-degrees F high. However, I consider that within measurement error for accuracy given the nature of the other sensors. Precision appears to be excellent. Relative Humidity: Comparison only with household sensors. Appears to be within a few percent. Atmospheric Pressure: Excellent agreement (within 0.5 mBar) with external values (local weather data). Range of data recorded between 1001 mBar and 1022.5 mBar. User Interface (Unit): There is an E-Ink type display that is not illuminated. This is a very low power display and conserves battery. No power used to maintain the current display reading. It has high contrast and easy readability. You can choose 2 sensors to display via the app (Phone or PC). When you wave your hand in front of the unit, it indicates its assessment of the overall air quality (good, fair, or poor) and shows any of the readings that cause a fair or poor result. It then returns to the standard readout. I have not found the lack of illumination to be detrimental. User Interface (Phone): I’m using a Samsung Galaxy A51 with Android 11. The software allows you to choose among several devices that you might have. As I have only one, it displays a summary that is in the attached photo. You can then tap “VIEW IN WEB DASHBOARD” to get graphic displays for different periods of time. You can choose to get notifications via the app, if values exceed the Airthings recommended thresholds. You can choose the sensors for which to have notifications sent. These thresholds cannot be changed. I think it would be good to be able to change the thresholds with the understanding that one is responsible for the values used. User Interface (PC/Web): I’m using an Intel-based PC running Windows 10 Pro and MS Edge for this unit. See attached photo. The graphing is generally quite good. I’d prefer to be able to choose the order in which the different sensors are displayed. It might be possible to do this by deleting sensor graphs (called tiles) and then adding them back. I’ve not tried that. The vertical scaling is automated and determined by the range of values of the data being displayed. The scale cannot be changed, but you can zoom using touch, if your computer/phone has that capability. Adding the historical data (not shown in the photo) will expand the vertical size of each graph and give the minimum and maximum value for the data range. Bug: You can add a tile for the outdoor weather, but only for Oslo, Norway! They have given me instructions for changing the location, but the software for the View Plus is not the same as for the software shown in the instructions. I have made them aware of this. It is unclear to me whether they can and will offer software updates. Downloading Data: The .csv file contains the time and sensor data for the entire time the system has been recording for that location. If I don’t do something to re-start history, the data file will eventually grow to unmanageable size. They should allow you to specify the range or use the range chosen for the graphing display. The file name is also fixed as the serial number of the unit. These are serious limitations given the extra work caused for the user, I consider them bugs. The data are separated by semi-colons, so converting from text to columns in MS Excel is easy. The data are recorded with a UTC time stamp. Since I’m in California, it is easy enough to subtract 7 hours and put the local time in the next column. The headers have a few character-conversion bugs: “μ” instead of “µ.” The character “” is inserted in the Temperature column header. These are minor. The date/time format is 2021-09-30T20:04:28. The “T” separator is a nuisance and prevents Excel from recognizing the form of the data. If they would replace the “T” with a space, then Excel would have no trouble. I use the replace function to do this. Again, it is no big deal, but should be a simple fix. I have made Airthings aware of these bugs. I will append this review, if I find additional information that may be pertinent to other users. I hope this has been helpful. Appendix 1: I've added a comparison of the PM2.5 data from the Airthings View Plus (indoors near an open window) to Purple Air data from an outdoor sensor (not mine) about 100 meters from my home. The Purple Air data are shown in the US and European scales. The data are for the 24 hours of October 29, 2021. Correlation is excellent for the main peak.

I have had this unit for almost 2 years now, I will buy another. It literally saved my life! If you work from home, like I do, then you need this unit or something like it. I had Radon levels above 7pCi/L and had been living with it without knowing it, for almost 3 years. For those that don't know, Radon is a radioactive breakdown of uranium, thorium, or radium in rocks, soil, and groundwater. The CDC and EPA claim that levels above 4pCi/L are considered highly toxic and proper mitigation should be taken to reduce the levels. This is why Radon mitigation systems are installed in nearly every home across the United States. If you don't know, educate yourself about Radon and understand that radon causes over 21,000 lung cancer deaths in the United States each year and 2,900 of those deaths are people that have never smoked a day in their lives! For me, every now and then, I would cough and a small spat of blood would sometimes appear and i could never figure out why... Now, do you NEED this system? - Absolutely not, there are plenty of radon detectors out there and they are pretty cheap. Why do I recommend this system and why did I choose it? - Historical Data: This bad boy tracks all of your air quality metrics over time. This is extremely important when you want to understand cause and effect in anything in life. Many of the "bad reviews" talk about how some of the metrics displayed are inaccurate when compared to another device that specializes in one or many of the metrics this unit does display. Accurate comparisons only matter when comparing against a controlled environment and are purely for the sake of argument. This is important to understand because no unit needs to be 100% accurate, it just needs to be accurate to itself so that when you make a change, you can properly see that the change is affecting the metrics in a way that makes sense for what you meant to accomplish. For example, I had high radon (the value of the metric didn't matter other than the fact that it is higher than 0... it's radioactivity, is anything above 0 TRULY acceptable?) When I installed my radon mitigation system, I could watch my Radon levels drop tremendously over time, which proved that my radon mitigation system was actually working as expected! Also, I haven't had any spots of blood appear when I cough... I call this a success. - Dashboard: Airthings has a nice application and semi-customizable dashboard which makes viewing really easy to do, and from anywhere in the world. When my pets are home while the family is away, I can notify my neighbor to open a window to let some fresh air in, while we're away. - Alerts: Always cool to have alerts so you don't even need to "monitor" the metrics. Fun fact, CO2 builds up pretty rapidly in a well-sealed home. When you go through insulation techniques to seal off cracks and crevices to improve your HVAC efficiency in the thermal zone, it is easy to forget that CO2 has no easy escape. Needless to say, this little guy alerted my phone and I was able to crack a window and keep my family safe. I later installed a fresh air intake on my HVAC system and again, could watch the metrics historically, as they fell to a more than acceptable range, yet again proving that my air intake installation was actually doing its job. I hope this helps anyone looking to decide on this purchase. It has been an absolute godsend to have in our home and I didn't even get into some of the other things it helped me solve that had been plaguing us.

So far (it's only been a week) the product seems good. Obviously it takes time to determine accuracy and build trust. This is not my first or only Airthing sensor. I have a wave that I was syncing via bluetooth. It works but lack of wifi and dependency on BT was a major fail. Luckily, adding the View Plus also added the hub that makes my other Wave sensors connect through it and then sync to the dashboard. My disappointment is with the support. No live support and it's been three days and no response to chat or email on three issues. Equally, I registered the products and had no conformation email for 2 out of three. A quick google search revealed that Airthing's support is know to be awful, taking weeks or more for a reply and sometimes being ignored. This alone makes be want to return over $500 of equipment. They are the most costly seller in this space. They need to provide support. My questions were not technical, but related to the dashboard, registration and other stuff. My other fear is the dashboard. It's great but, what if Birthing's goes away or starts to charge for the dashboard. This would kill the product. If Birthing's gets back to me in a few days, I'll update the review. If not, I'll seriously think about returning them and adjusting the rating down to 1.

The Airthings View Plus has been an excellent investment for monitoring our home's indoor air quality. Our primary reason for purchasing it was long-term radon monitoring, especially to track seasonal variations and annual average levels. Based on our experience, the radon sensor appears to be highly accurate and reliable. One of the most valuable features is the mobile push notification system. We've configured custom thresholds for humidity, VOCs, CO₂, particulate matter, and other measurements, allowing us to react immediately whenever readings move outside our preferred ranges. The extensive alert and monitoring options are genuinely useful rather than just a novelty. It's also refreshing that purchasing the device gives you full access to its capabilities, historical data, and statistics. There are no paywalls restricting essential features or placing "must-have" functionality behind a subscription. It's also great to have full access to measurement history through the web interface in addition to the mobile app. Another major advantage is that the View Plus functions as a hub for other Airthings devices. We have paired it with a Wave Mini, and the two have worked together flawlessly for well over two years. Although the unit is normally powered by mains electricity, it also supports battery backup. We particularly appreciate that the batteries are reserved for backup operation rather than being unnecessarily drained during normal use. The power management has been excellent. The configurable measurement thresholds are flexible, the gesture controls on both the View Plus and Wave Mini are intuitive and convenient, and Airthings' customer support has consistently been friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful. The only unexpected behavior we encountered was related to the device location name. Renaming a location - for example, changing "Living Room" to "Lounge" - caused the historical statistics to be reset. We reported this to Airthings as a product improvement suggestion in 2024, so it's possible this behavior has since been revised. After more than two years of continuous operation, the system has proven to be exceptionally reliable. I can wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone looking for a comprehensive, high-quality indoor air quality monitoring solution.

Wow that thing detects every little particulate in the air. My wife got the app on her phone and you can see charts of many pollutants that are in the air. You burn a toast, it will show a graph that shows the change in the air quality. We bought it to keep an eye on the radon that is in the air most specifically. Expensive but you get what you pay for.

i've used this for a few months. its very good and accurate enough for home use. kept in kitchen. display is good. batteries first installed 9 months ago and still going strong. app is also good and informative for current and historical readings. worth the cost.

We have two of these, gives great insight into indoor air quality, amazing how quick co2 levels raise in our well sealed home. Nice app which graphs the historical results. Would highly recommend.

El Airthings View Plus es un buen medidor de calidad del aire con varias funciones útiles. Se puede usar tanto con baterías como mediante USB-C. Cuando lo utilizas con USB-C, también puede funcionar como bridge para otros dispositivos Airthings, lo cual es un gran punto a favor. Lo que me gusta: - Alimentación flexible: batería o USB-C - Función bridge vía USB-C → muy útil si tienes varios dispositivos Airthings - App clara y fácil de usar - Actualizaciones rápidas: cada 2 minutos con USB-C, cada 10 minutos con batería - Soporte de API: funciona bien con Home Assistant, lo cual para mí es un gran plus - Pantalla e-ink: bajo consumo y aspecto limpio - Función “wave”: solo pasas la mano y te muestra un indicador de color sobre la calidad del aire Lo que me gusta menos: - Precio: se siente algo elevado - Precisión: suficiente para tendencias y uso general, pero no esperes precisión de laboratorio