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WiFi LED Air Quality Display

Keep an eye on the air outside — your city’s current air quality index on the panel, refreshed over Wi-Fi, next to everything else you rotate through.

What you need

  • A DataPix, powered on and joined to your Wi-Fi (see Setup).
  • A free OpenWeatherMap API key — the same one the Weather preset uses.

Step by step

  1. Open the interface

    From a browser on the same network, open the device's IP address shown on the panel.

  2. New view → Air Quality

    Go to Views → New view and pick the Air Quality preset.

  3. Paste your key and search a city

    Paste your OpenWeatherMap key, then type the city and pick the matching result.

    The Air Quality setup form with API key, city and background animation fields
  4. Pick a background animation

    Sparkle is preselected; choose any of the 14 animated patterns or 26 full-panel effects, or None. A live preview plays right under the dropdown. Subtle patterns keep text easiest to read.

  5. Customize and save

    Click Add. The city name and the live AQI reading are separate, movable values. A long city name starts out scrolling sideways on its own — shorten it to fit if you prefer, then Save.

    The view editor showing London, England, GB above AQI 2, with Scroll sideways selected

Reading the number

The panel shows OpenWeatherMap’s index as AQI 1 to AQI 5:

AQIMeaning
1Good
2Fair
3Moderate
4Poor
5Very poor

Want it to turn red on a bad day? Select the AQI value in the editor and use Color by value — a different colour below or above a threshold you pick (e.g. above 3).

The city label is plain text (the air quality API returns coordinates, not a name) — rename it to anything. See Weather Forecast and Weather for the same key’s other views.