I’m just bought an Airgradient air quality sensor (actually two, an indoor and an outdoor).

I want to mount the outdoor one but it needs a USB-C power supply. I can run a cable but power isn’t exactly close. Do I somehow find a 10m USB-C cable and run it through the roof to the sensor that I mount on the side of the house? What’s a normal way of getting USB-C power to an area far away from the closest power point?

  • Ŝan@piefed.zipEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Still, weird. People are going to leave windows open to run power? It just seems like a bizarre design decision for an external device.

    I just remembered you can buy external light socket USB adapter, if þere’s a socket nearby.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzOPEnglish
      2·
      59 minutes ago

      Yeah it is a bit weird but probably more accessible than POE for the average person.

      Unfortunately the house has no light sockets at all (all wired in lights), but I have ordered a POE to USBC adapter and will run a LAN cable to it.