Reef Angel Forum

I think I may have a bad dimming module in my relay box. Everything was fine until last night and I noticed that my daytime LEDs were not dimming as evening went on. The Blues were dimming fine. Tried resetting (powering off) the controller a couple of times. When the timer finally turned off the po...

rossbryant1956 wrote:I have one in my DT to monitor an easily clogged over flow. It turns off the pump and sends me a text message. No end of the things you can do.

This is a great idea - anyone have the code pre-written for this (if the pump is on port 8 ). I have been thinking of this for awhile.

Thanks for the feedback guys, I was just thinking the drivers would last longer not being powered 24/7. But not a big deal and I like DrewPalmers point about freeing up a relay

I have my LEDs dimming to zero (MeanWell Analog) and then the power shutoff about 5 min later so that the drivers are not powered on 24/7. Everything works great but when the relay turns off the drivers I get a lighting show in my tank for about 1 - 2 seconds. This did not happen when I was using ju...

I am interested in availability as well. Thanks

Rufessor -
I have a dumb question -
Doesn't the Vinger cancel out the PH gain in your mixture ?

and remember (I learned this the hard way) it can even be something that is not on. My problem is stray voltage from my chiller, but not thru the tank, it is some other way. It is tied the the computer and USB cable to the RA. Start by unplugging your USB cable and see if your RA starts reading the ...

Robert - Again you are correct. It is my Chiller that is causing the problem. I never checked it before because it was plugged into a RA relay that is powered off. The chiller has no connection to the water. It has water lines but they drain when it is not running. It has no probe in the water (I am...

I already tried that a couple days ago. I turned of everything and the PH did not come up.
But I will try again.

More information: I have now moved to a PC laptop. I loaded everything up and the client is up and running. PH is still reading 1.92 or something close. I unplugged the power brick to the laptop. Bam, PH is back to normal. On wall power, no go. On Battery power - go. This is the strangest thing I ha...

Thanks Roberto -
I guess it will not be quite as easy as I had hoped ...

RX
TX
GND

Put your MM on AC voltage
Place the black probe in the ground hole of the wall outlet
Place the red probe into the tank water.

Anyone know the pin out from USB to 9 pin serial ? or at least the pins out of the RA to 9 pin serial ?

I want to connect to the RA though a 9 pin serial port instad of a USB port, if you could not tell from above.

Thanks
MIke

I am fighting a very odd issue with my RA. Robert and I have been discussing in messages but I think we are both out of idea's so I thought I would see if someone has any input. I have an RA that I setup about two weeks ago. All was working great and the PH probe was reading correctly in my tank. I ...

Sorry it took so long, was building a new computer for Client use.
The new client fixed all my issues. Portal and memory page are now working.
Thank you very much.
Mike

Dave,
Thank you very much for looking into this. I will test on my system shortly.

Mike

Waiting ..
I have tried and retried everything I can think of.

Did you close and restart the client software after loading the new memory file? I actually rebooted just to make sure everything was clean. Then mine stated working.

Loaded it INI - It fixed the issue with the error on loading the memory page. That works now ( although it has wrong information in the fields). It did not fix the upload to the portal. Same error. Message: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: s StackTrace: at System.IO.StringReader..ctor(String s)...

Dbmet - I did remove the key from the portal - good catch tho

Rimai - I will try the INI file now.

No Joy :) - So I just learned the hard way that you have to have ReefAngel.Portal ( "userid "); in the controller code for it to load the wifi module. I removed the key in both the controller and Client and still not working. However I should mention that the LABELS did update on the porta...

Trying it now.

I am just setting up my Client Suite as well to talk to the portal and am getting the same errors in the log as Bogdan.
I have my portal name and security key in both the Client Suite and in the Controller code.
Do you need any port forwarding for the client to work with the portal ?

Thanks
Mike

DrewPalmer04, So this is great - having more options is always a good thing. But I have a question, you mention you want something more reliable. Is the wireless module really that unreliable ? Have you tested it ? I know wireless is wireless and never as guaranteed as a wired connection but these d...

Thank you Sir.

Roberto,
Did you update the MAC lib's as well ? I see the windows installer is 1.0.2a but the MAC is still 1.0.2

Thanks
Mike

You updated this file:Documents\Arduino\libraries\RA_NokiaLCD\RA_Nokia.cpp - correct ? Once I removed the line, I closed the Arduino app and reopened it. Opened the code that the wizard created for me, verified it and then uploaded it. I left the line :ReefAngel.AddStandardMenu(); // Add Standard Me...

Eureka !!!! Perfect, LCD back online. You are the man.
So, does this mean the Lib's need updated and until then make this change if I reinstalled the software ?

Thanks
Mike

Rob,
I do not have that line in my ReefAngel.cpp file. I have looked and done a search for it.

Thanks
Mike

Removed:
ReefAngel.AddStandardMenu(); // Add Standard Menu

Again, uploaded fine, RA reboots - no display. Just the backlight on.