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Research profile · last verified 2026-08-02Airthings View Plus
Exactly which product this is[2]
- Model number
- 2960
- Generation
- Not established
- Region this page covers
- US
- Also sold or listed as
- Airthings View Plus · Air quality monitor View Plus · Airthings 2960
“Not established” means we have not sourced that detail yet — not that the product has no model number, generation or regional variant. We publish the gap rather than filling it.
Compatibility
| Ecosystem | Support | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| Apple Home | Doesn't workVerified: does not work with this ecosystem[2][3] | A rare thing and worth crediting: the vendor answers the question in writing instead of leaving you to infer it from a list that stops short. Airthings' own page says 'Apple HomeKit is not currently supported.' That is a first-party statement of absence, which this catalogue treats as much stronger evidence than silence — most vendors simply omit the platform and leave a buyer guessing whether it was forgotten or excluded. There is no Matter route either, and that was checked rather than assumed: a CSA-IoT keyword search for 'Airthings' returns no certified products, validated against a known positive on the same endpoint in the same session. So for an Apple household this is a clean no, from the manufacturer's own mouth. Note Airthings' own hedge — 'not currently' — which is the company leaving a door open rather than closing one. |
| Amazon Alexa | PartialPartial support — see the catch[2] | Real and first-party, and stated with more precision than most vendors manage: 'The Airthings View Plus integrates with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, IFTTT, and Homey to trigger smart home routines based on sensor readings.' The useful half of that sentence is the last clause — the integration is described as a TRIGGER source, meaning your air readings can drive routines, which is exactly what a sensor should do in a smart home. Recorded partial rather than full because that one sentence is the whole documentation: no capability list, no statement of which of the seven readings are exposed, and no indication whether radon — the differentiating measurement, and the slowest-moving one — reaches Alexa at all or only the faster CO2 and particulate readings do. It runs through Airthings' cloud, so it stops when your internet does. |
| Google Home | PartialPartial support — see the catch[2] | Identical standing to Alexa, from the identical sentence — Airthings names Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, IFTTT and Homey together in one clause and distinguishes between them nowhere. That even-handedness is worth a small credit, since the more common pattern in this catalogue is one platform documented properly and the other left as a bare name. Partial for the same reason: the platform is named, the capability is not, and which sensors travel is unpublished. |
| SmartThings | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[2] | Unknown. Airthings enumerates four integrations — Alexa, Google Assistant, IFTTT and Homey — and SmartThings is not among them; no Samsung-side documentation naming this monitor was located. Recorded unknown rather than none, and the contrast with the Apple cell on this same record is the reason why: for Apple, Airthings wrote a sentence saying it is not supported, and that earns a 'none'. For SmartThings it wrote nothing at all, and an omission from a four-item list is silence rather than a denial. Same page, same vendor, two different kinds of evidence — and this catalogue records the difference instead of flattening it. |
| Home Assistant | PartialPartial support — see the catch[4] | Not named by Airthings — its integration sentence lists Alexa, Google, IFTTT and Homey and stops — so this cell rests entirely on the counterparty. Home Assistant ships an official core airthings integration, introduced in 2021.10, with an IoT class of Cloud Polling: it authenticates with API credentials generated in the Airthings dashboard and polls Airthings' service, so an Airthings account is mandatory and nothing here is local. Recorded partial rather than full for a specific and checkable reason: Home Assistant's documentation describes the integration at BRAND level and names no device models at all — it says only that 'Airthings provide different sensors for measuring the air quality', with no mention of the View Plus or any other product. Neither side names this monitor, so the route plainly exists for Airthings hardware while coverage of this exact model is documented by nobody. Two limits worth knowing, both from Home Assistant: the radon sensor 'may not be published by the Airthings API' at startup until it has a value — which matters, since radon is the reason to buy this monitor — and live updates depend on a hub. That second point connects to this record's hub note: without a hub-capable device relaying them, Bluetooth-only Airthings units sync only when the phone app uploads their data. There is no Matter fallback that could supply a local path, since no Airthings certificate exists. |
? Inconclusive means we researched that ecosystem and the evidence doesn’t settle it — the catch says why, and the sources are listed below. It is a statement about the available evidence, never a verdict on the product. A Setup Check researches your exact setup where the official sources don’t answer.
Needs before it works: No hub — and unusually for this catalogue, the product IS one. The View Plus joins your 2.4GHz Wi-Fi directly and needs nothing between it and Airthings' service. It then acts as a bridge for the rest of the range: in Airthings' words, 'The hub feature allows the View Plus to extend its internet connectivity to Airthings Wave monitors, which on their own use only Bluetooth.' That matters if you are buying more than one Airthings device, because the cheaper Wave units are Bluetooth-only and are stuck within phone range until something gives them a network. Airthings notes the hub function requires the View Plus to be powered over USB-C rather than running on its batteries — which is the practical catch: the two-year battery life and the hub role are alternatives, not a combination.[2]
What it can do[2]
You can tell it to
None documented by the vendor
It reports
- Air quality reading
- Temperature reading
- Humidity reading
Listed capabilities are what we could establish from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished — not necessarily absent.
Subscription reality[2]
✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.
Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.
No subscription for the consumer product, and Airthings says the app is free in its own words: 'The View Plus requires the free Airthings app (iOS or Android) to function, including initial setup, alerts, and trend data.' Read that sentence twice, though, because it does two jobs — it tells you the app costs nothing, and it tells you the app is not optional. Setup, alerts and history all live there, so an account with Airthings is a condition of using the monitor rather than a convenience. Recorded as a positive 'none' on the strength of the written 'free'. One boundary this record keeps deliberately: Airthings also sells a paid 'Airthings for Business' tier, and that is a different product line for commercial buildings — its pricing is never conflated with the consumer app, and nothing about it gates anything described here. There is no consumable: an air-quality monitor has no filter, so after the batteries the ongoing cost is nothing.
Maintenance reality[2]
- Batteries: 6 × AA (user-replaceable); USB-C power alternative — expect roughly 24 months per set
- Works without the internet: No — the core function depends on the vendor's servers, so an outage takes it with them.[2]
- This is the most sensors of anything in this subcategory, and the radon is the reason people buy it. Airthings lists what it measures as 'Radon, particulate matter (PM2.5), Carbon dioxide (CO2), temperature, humidity, airborne chemicals (VOC), air pressure' — seven readings, where the two monitors beside it in this catalogue manage four and five. Power is either six AA batteries, which Airthings rates at 'up to 2 years... depending on Wi-Fi router type and sensor reporting interval', or USB-C. Note the qualifier is doing real work: your router type and how often the device reports both move that number, and Airthings does not publish the range. The USB-C option is not merely a convenience — the hub feature that bridges Airthings' Bluetooth-only Wave monitors requires it, so you cannot have both maximum battery life and the bridge role at once. Connectivity is Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz, 802.11 b/g/n) plus Bluetooth Low Energy. cloudDependent is true: the app is mandatory for setup, alerts and trend data, and no local API or local control path is documented for this model.
- Security updates: No security-update support date is on record for this model yet. We haven't yet checked whether Airthings publishes one, so this is a gap in our research — not a statement about the manufacturer.
The catch
Buy this for radon, or think hard about whether you need it. Seven sensors — radon, PM2.5, CO2, VOC, temperature, humidity and air pressure — make it the most complete monitor in this catalogue, but radon is the one nothing else here measures, and it is the one with a genuine health case behind it. If radon is not on your mind, you are paying $299.99 for a CO2-and-particulates monitor that a $34.99 IKEA sensor also covers. Second, the Apple answer is a clean no and the vendor says so itself: 'Apple HomeKit is not currently supported.' There is no Matter path either — no Airthings certificate exists in the CSA database, checked and validated against a known positive. Credit where it is due: writing that sentence is more honest than the industry norm of quietly omitting the platform, and it is why this record can say 'no' rather than 'unknown'. Third, notice what is and isn't documented across platforms on this page. Apple gets an explicit refusal. Alexa, Google, IFTTT and Homey get a single shared sentence saying they can 'trigger smart home routines based on sensor readings'. SmartThings gets nothing. Three different states of knowledge on one page, and this record keeps them distinct rather than rounding them all to a checkmark. Fourth, a real trade-off buried in the specifications: the two-year battery life and the hub feature are alternatives. The View Plus can bridge Airthings' Bluetooth-only Wave monitors onto your network — genuinely useful if you own more than one — but that requires USB-C power, so you choose between the batteries and the bridge. Fifth, the free app is mandatory. Airthings states it plainly — setup, alerts and trend data all require it — so an Airthings account is a condition of ownership, and everything here runs through their cloud with no local path documented. Finally, two small things in the buyer's favour: Airthings advertises a free 5-year extended warranty if you register within 30 days, and lists the monitor as HSA/FSA eligible through Truemed, which is not something any other product in this category offers.
Who it's for
The right buy for someone who wants radon monitored continuously rather than by a charcoal kit left out for three days — that is the case this product genuinely wins, and no other monitor in this catalogue measures it. It suits a household on Alexa or Google that wants air readings driving automations, since Airthings describes the integration specifically as triggering routines from sensor readings. And it suits anyone already in the Airthings range, because this is the model that puts the cheaper Bluetooth-only Wave monitors onto the network — just plan on USB-C power if you want that, since it costs you the battery life. It is the wrong product for an Apple household: Airthings says in writing that HomeKit is not supported and holds no Matter certificate, so there is no route into the Home app at all. Think twice if radon is not your concern — seven sensors is impressive, but the CO2-and-particulates half of the job is covered by a $34.99 sensor sitting in this same subcategory. And think twice if you want local control or no vendor account: the free app is mandatory for setup, alerts and history, and nothing here works without Airthings' cloud.
Sources & method
Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →
- [1] Airthings View Plus product sheet, airthings.com (PDF fetched and text-extracted 2026-08-09), CONNECTIVITY section verbatim: '2.4 Ghz WiFi 802.11 b/g/n for wireless Internet connection. Not compatible with 5 Ghz WiFi. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) only used for onboarding via the app. Airthings SmartLink is enabled when the monitor is plugged in. With SmartLink, View Plus can act as an Internet hub for Airthings Wave monitors.' Same sheet, APP REQUIREMENTS: 'Internet-connected smartphone with one of the 3 latest major versions of iOS or Android, supporting Bluetooth 4.2 or later' — a phone-side onboarding requirement, not a device control path. — vendor-documentation research, verified 2026-08-09Backs: Protocols
- [2] Airthings, View Plus air quality monitor product page — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Product identity, Price, Protocols, Required hub or bridge, What it provides to your home, Subscription, Maintenance, Power source, Installation, App platforms, Capabilities, Market availability, Service status, Apple Home compatibility, Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility, Works without the internet
- [3] CSA-IoT certified products database, keyword search — registry lookup, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Protocols, Apple Home compatibility
- [4] Home Assistant, Airthings integration documentation — counterparty documentation, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Home Assistant compatibility
- [5] unrecorded — the migrated lifecycle.research stamp carried no source field — migrated hand stamp, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Research status
- [6] Airthings View Plus product sheet (V2, 03/2024), 'CONNECTIVITY' — "2.4 Ghz WiFi 802.11 b/g/n for wireless Internet connection. Not compatible with 5 Ghz WiFi." The same sheet's radio table gives "802.11 b/g/n (2.4 GHz) WiFi Output power: <50 mW Frequency Range (MHz): 2400.0 - 2483.5", alongside separate SmartLink (868–928 MHz) and BLE radios. — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-21Backs: Wi-Fi bands it can use
- [7] Matter Distributed Compliance Ledger, vendor registry (read 2026-08-22 via tools/dcl-lookup.mjs). Airthings does not appear under any name tried: 'airthings'. The DCL's vendor registry was enumerated to EXHAUSTION on 2026-08-22 via tools/dcl-lookup.mjs: substring queries were unioned until the distinct-VID count reached 833, which is the record count the tool itself reports scanning per query (the union of a/e/i/o/u/y reached 832; the last holdout was 'SLV GmbH', a vowel-free name, recovered by adding l/s/t). Every vendor in the ledger was therefore inspected, not searched for. — registry-lookup (DCL enumeration by vendor ID, with known-positive control), verified 2026-08-22Backs: Protocols
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