That CO2 concentration looks unhealthy, I wonder to what extent it's affecting your sleep quality (as opposed to waking you up).

> Measure before you fix

In my case, I got a few IKEA CO2 sensors, and after leaving them in the bedrooms for a few days, we found that leaving an outside window slightly open + the bedroom door open, kept the CO2 levels below 600PPM at night.

We're 1000ft/300m away from a motorway, but fortunately the noise pollution isn't bad. So ventilating (even as it's getting cold) turned out to be a simple fix. I hadn't thought of collecting sleep data from our devices, but maybe I'll get an AI to do that, so I can correlate our sleep quality with the environment.

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showmypost 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The levels I have at night indeed are unhealthy, I’m still trying to find the best way to tackle this challenge..

Most wakeups are from noise (I can see it in the data) but high CO2 levels can also make me a lighter sleeper.

Not sure where you’re based but in Europe the priority is mostly on heat isolation, so air movement suffers. The US is better in that regard. There was a big thread on that topic on X the other week (Peter the indie hacker initiated it and there were some good recommendations in case you’re the owner of the flat)

	▲	ddxv 3 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Is your bedroom approaching 4 or 5k PPM? The chart screen shotted was at 3300+ and it looks like it kept going up after. Hopefully it's a bad sensor reading, but that is very high. I sleep in a small room with a few people and it's maybe 1500 and noticeable when that happens. Getting to 5k is potentially dangerous for extended periods of time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide#Below_1%
	▲	iknowSFR 37 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		https://archive.ph/dd5Kl “Almost 2%. The reduction in carbon-dioxide concentration when 60 square centimetres of plants were placed in an office, according to one study.”

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jdsnape 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I also agree co2 levels are super important, but I’m wondering: in your situation isn’t air pollution from the motorway a concern? Not sure how to balance that one

	▲	megous 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		3k+ is well into the headache / feel really bad range we rarely get over 1k here

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doctorpangloss 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

yeah... the problem is that his vibecoded dashboard or sensor readings are buggy

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Eric_WVGG 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

plants plants plants. Most of these are dummy easy to care for, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Clean_Air_Study#List_of_p...

	▲	jdsnape 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Plants are nice…but, from your link: “These results are not applicable to typical buildings, where outdoor-to-indoor air exchange already removes volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at a rate that could only be matched by the placement of 10–1000 plants/m2 of a building's floor space.[2] The results also failed to replicate in future studies”
	▲	showmypost 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You’d need a forest in your room to see a proper change. There was a whole discussion in the Indie hacking scene on X on that topic around 1-2 weeks ago Big fan of plants though, help me feel calm