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air-Q MCP Server

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air-Q runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 386 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 5 Aug 2026.

MCP server for direct HTTP communication with air-Q air quality sensor devices

Installs per day peak 216 · avg 76 · -31% w/w
a month agotoday
386
Installs / week
pypi · mcp-airq
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5 Aug 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
Apache-2.0
License
Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check air-Q every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp-airq -- uvx mcp-airq
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-airq": {
      "args": [
        "mcp-airq"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp-airq]
command = "uvx"
args = ["mcp-airq"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-airq": {
      "args": [
        "mcp-airq"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-airq": {
      "args": [
        "mcp-airq"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: AIRQ_CONFIG_FILE (Path to the air-Q device configuration JSON file), AIRQ_DEVICES (Inline JSON array with configured air-Q devices). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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air-Q — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for air-Q?
air-Q runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package mcp-airq was installed 386 times last week.
How do I connect air-Q?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls mcp-airq straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use air-Q?
The pypi package mcp-airq was installed 386 times in the last week. Week over week that is -31%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is air-Q open source?
Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.