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Changing a charger's status light brightness

How to change status light brightness of your charger

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Your charger's status light may be a bit bright at night time. With Plugchoice, it's possible to change the brightness yourself.


Changing the brightness in the settings

If we've supported your charger, you can find this in the settings.

App

Go to Chargers > Settings > Status light brightness.

Web portal

Go to Chargers > Settings > Status light brightness.

Currently, it's not possible to set a timer for day/night time. You can only set one brightness level.


Changing the brightness via advanced settings

If the setting is missing from your charger In the web portal, it means we haven't supported it for your charger. It's possible to change the brightness yourself by changing advanced settings.

Via parameters

Possibly, your charger has a parameter setting for this.

To find it, go to Chargers > View > Parameters.

Via commands

If you can't find it in parameters, it's possible there is a command key for it. You have to know the key. Then, go to Chargers > View > Commands and select ChangeConfiguration. Enter the key and its value.


Changing the brightness for Volt Time chargers

Source and Source 2

Web Portal

  1. Go to Charger>Configuration

  2. Find they key called OEM_LEDBrightness

  3. Change to a value between 1 and 100

1 is the least bright and 100 is the brightest.

This will change the LED brightness for all LED states.

Local (not recommended, not supported)

  1. Locally log in to your Source or Source 2 charger

  2. Go the LED tab

  3. Scroll to the desired LED state, for instance Idle

  4. Change the RGB values to the desired strengths

  5. Press Save on the bottom of the page

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