I have my PurpleAir Zen mounted outside under my front porch where I can see it through the over-the-door transom/sidelight windows of my front door. The color AQI brightness appropriate for daytime is too bright for nighttime. Scheduling the brightness in accordance with local sunrise sunset would be nice. Or if there is a way to set this programmatically via third party (Universal Devices eISY, etc.) or API that might work.
Hi @sethhmorgan,
We appreciate your feedback, and we see how beneficial it would be. We want to look into the possibility of adding a feature like this to the API. This way, apps could be created to make a very neat user experience.
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+1 to this idea; similar use case to OP. I want my exterior Zen sensor to have 100% brightness between 5am and 9pm, and 0% during the night. I could implement this behavior myself with either an unsecured local network device API or a secured cloud API.
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+1 to this idea. Just something simple like 2 brightness levels per day. Or maybe the option of using local sunset/sunrise times. Nothing like a bright light at night to attract bugs to the sensor. The same idea of 2 levels would be great for inside sensors too.
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Yes, please do this. I have the same thoughts about my Zen. It would be great to have this feature programmable on the registration page
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Any news on future implementation of this requested feature?
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13 months later, I figured it was time to ping for any update. What I ended up doing is keeping the LEDs at a lower brightness setting which results in it harder to see in the daytime
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+1
For a simple solution with a daytime and nighttime level
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It’s been two years, sadly I don’t think this feature will ever come to fruition. I resigned myself to not being able to view the colors at all since it attracted so many bugs and I got tired of turning it on/off twice a day.
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yes if only we could submit the url with the change without having to go to the website and submit it manually. a parameter that submits directly with info within the url. then all we need to do is save the url with 2 different brightnesses. I tried this but no luck. a auto parameter with y/n could do it if they could add this … minor change 
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I tried that too, spent way too much time on it lol
@Ethan any update to this feature?
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I want to resurrect this topic. I live in a dark-sky reserve and that green LED lights up most of my backyard! Yes, I can physically out outside and, with a series of double taps, dim the LED. Are there any plans on allowing one to schedule LED function?
My ADDITIONAL PROBLEM: our home is off-grid and occasionally experiences 1-5 second power outages as the system switches from PV-panel power to GENERAC generator power. Whenever this happens, the LED defaults to a brighter level. It’s annoying, however, the monitor is still recording and transmitting data to the purpleair-servers.
@Doug_PurpleAir … @Amanda_Hawkins … @Jessica {{{Ms. Bird}}} …would you be able to (a) add the LED scheduling feature in future firmware or UI releases? and (b) help me figure out why my Zen unit {{{{here’s a link to our station, here on the North Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada}}}}} defaults to brigher-and-brighter LED settings?
Privileged to be the only monitor on the North Bruce Peninsula, Paul Neem. Dec. 30/25. 6 p.m. EST.
I want to resurect this topic. I live in a dark-sky reserve and that green LED lights up most of my backyard! Yes, I can physically out outside and, with a series of double taps, dim the LED.
My ADDITIONAL PROBLEM: our home is off-grid and occasionally experiences 1-5 second power outages as the system switches from PV-panel power to GENERAC generator power.
btw… @sethhmorgan …I’m having similar issues. PN.