diff --git a/assets/webconfig/js/content_leds.js b/assets/webconfig/js/content_leds.js
index 2a95af81..1aec94ab 100755
--- a/assets/webconfig/js/content_leds.js
+++ b/assets/webconfig/js/content_leds.js
@@ -2069,7 +2069,7 @@ var updateOutputSelectList = function (ledType, discoveryInfo) {
     case "devRPiPWM":
       key = ledType;
 
-      if (discoveryInfo.devices.length == 0) {
+      if (!discoveryInfo.isUserAdmin) {
         enumVals.push("NONE");
         enumTitleVals.push($.i18n('edt_dev_spec_devices_discovered_none'));
         $('#btn_submit_controller').prop('disabled', true);
diff --git a/libsrc/leddevice/dev_rpi_pwm/LedDeviceWS281x.cpp b/libsrc/leddevice/dev_rpi_pwm/LedDeviceWS281x.cpp
index 2b67173c..af72304a 100644
--- a/libsrc/leddevice/dev_rpi_pwm/LedDeviceWS281x.cpp
+++ b/libsrc/leddevice/dev_rpi_pwm/LedDeviceWS281x.cpp
@@ -159,12 +159,10 @@ QJsonObject LedDeviceWS281x::discover(const QJsonObject& /*params*/)
 
 	QJsonArray deviceList;
 
-	if (SysInfo::isUserAdmin())
-	{
-		//Indicate the general availability of the device, if hyperion is run under root
-		deviceList << QJsonObject ({{"found",true}});
-		devicesDiscovered.insert("devices", deviceList);
-	}
+	//Indicate the general availability of the device, if hyperion is run under root
+	devicesDiscovered.insert("isUserAdmin", SysInfo::isUserAdmin());
+
+	devicesDiscovered.insert("devices", deviceList);
 
 	DebugIf(verbose,_log, "devicesDiscovered: [%s]", QString(QJsonDocument(devicesDiscovered).toJson(QJsonDocument::Compact)).toUtf8().constData());