Google’s Nest Hub will display air quality levels as wildfire season continues

Google updates its Nest Hub Displays with a new feature that displays the Air Quality Index (AQI), Android Central reported. The feature will appear on the weather widget, showing a digital ranking 0 to 500 and green (good) maroon (dangerous) color coding. Google takes data from the US government’s AQI site used by the EPA to monitor the air quality of the United States.

In addition to the AQI index and colors in the weather widget, the nest display owners can also ask Google Assistant for information about the air quality by saying “what is the air quality. From me “or something similar. You can also ask the wizard to give alerts when the air quality that your location falls on dangerous levels, a feature that could be convenient for people with disabilities.

The functionality moved as angry wild disadvantages across the Western United States, particularly in Oregon and California. “Between the forest fire season and recent increased efforts to reduce air pollution, it is more important than ever to know the air quality in your area,” said Google in an update of the nest community.

The update will move in some markets “in the coming weeks”, hopefully in areas affected by forest fires and smoke. In our review, we called the $ 100 (2nd generation) nest hub “an excellent intelligent screen and a mediocre sleep tracking”.