# Ui-level color Change
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-level-color-change/43967
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [10 April 2021 15:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-level-color-change/43967 "2021-04-10T15:37:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@JeromeVISUALS](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JeromeVISUALS)
#### Post date: [10 April 2021 15:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-level-color-change/43967/1 "2021-04-10T15:37:53Z")
Hi,
I started recently to create custom panels with Node RED and Dashboard.
Ui-level is very useful to get sort of audio-meters. I'd like the meter to turn greyed with the source is muted. However it seems not possible to control the meter color from an external msg ? Could someone confirm ?
Thanks !!
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### Author:  [@hotNipi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hotNipi)
#### Post date: [10 April 2021 16:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-level-color-change/43967/2 "2021-04-10T16:06:44Z")
Confirmed. Also if you read the nodes info page, it tells that the widget is not perfect choice for audio metering. But feel free to try, just watch the overall performance.
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### Author:  [@JeromeVISUALS](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JeromeVISUALS)
#### Post date: [10 April 2021 16:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-level-color-change/43967/3 "2021-04-10T16:26:32Z")
Ok, Thanks. Would have been great but I can do with it.
As for audio and perf, I don't really need high performance, so I'm sending round values from what I get from the device....
BTW, Any chance you can point me to maybe a more audio-oriented tool ?
Cheers.
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### Author:  [@hotNipi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hotNipi)
#### Post date: [10 April 2021 20:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-level-color-change/43967/4 "2021-04-10T20:09:27Z")
Performance wise such gauge should be created on top of web audio api. It of course can be done using the ui\_template node . Never tried but there is plenty of examples you can find world wide. And no, I haven't seen any ready made audio related widget for dashboard.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [10 May 2021 20:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-level-color-change/43967/5 "2021-05-10T20:10:08Z")
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