I am excited to integrate my new PIXEL in a new system. I have been poking around the serial output but there are some columns that seem ambiguous to me and I am not having any luck finding documentation about it. The output looks like: 4574145,13,3.0,nan,100 4575303,13,3.0,nan,100 4576483,13,3.0,…

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I don’t have an answer to your query unfortunately, but, Christopher, how were you able to access this information off a pixel? Did you have to download any drivers in order for it to show up on your computer?

Yes, this is the serial output from the PIXEL itself that I am reading from a serial monitor. However, it is output like as I described above, with no reference to what the data in the columns mean. No drivers were necessary for me to access this info.

Thanks Christopher - I’d missed the serial output part. It’s my first time reading serial output despite lots of using the PurpleAir API. For the PurpleAir mods, it might be a helpful thing to note in the product page for the Pixel that although you don’t have upload capabilities, you can access th…

Oddly enough for an unrelated project I had to install the Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Virtual COM Port driver which essentially lets you read serial output as though it’s a regular COM port. I was able to connect via PuTTY and can read values in real-time. Since it’s a terminal the values just …

For anyone checking this thread later, PurpleAir has published this article on using the PurpleAir utility to stream data out of the Pixel: [image] How to View Data from the Pixel using the PurpleAir Utility Sensors The following article provides step-by-step …

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dwhitemv (Doug White) April 21, 2025, 9:14pm 4

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