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Yup... I work from home, so the day mine came in I kept staring at the box waiting for my work day to end... it was rough

I'm in the same boat... It's definitely not a bad thing to do it in phases

ah yeah, that's a valid point too... Didn't think of that!

So you recommend me to stay with my ATO? Yup. I agree with them. If you relied only on the salinity and the probe misread for a while, you could dump an awful lot of fresh water into your system... Float switch should be much more reliable. Checking both (and allowing for some margin of error) is e...

@bhazard: Why do you wish the wireless attachment could be "wireless N"?
I assume you mean 802.11n, the standard that allows for faster communication than 802.11b or g?
Are they making N-only access points now?

Unless you're using a fairly decent multimeter 0.12V could just be junk data. What measurement range are you using when it reads that? It also could be that the potential of the tank is "floating" if you disconnected all power (by literally pulling all of the plugs, not just switching them...

@Paulturner911: It seems to be usually related to the VC++ redistributable... I imagine the installer ensures that you have the right one though. (Perhaps it doesn't, or maybe if it used to work you have installed something that changed the version of the library you had...) Maybe try reinstalling t...

lnevo: Ah, ok. That makes more sense to me now, hehe.

lnevo: You had verification errors that went away by switching from int to long in the code? :-/ mudcat1: Any one of a number of [many] different things can cause this to happen. Does the error always show the exact same address number? Do you get that error when using the old libraries and the new ...

Mine is 58:*:*:*:*:*

@mudcat1: Thanks! Don't know how I missed that...

Nope, it can use port 2000... you will just need a different public port on your router forwarded to your friend's controller (since it will have its own IP)

I would love to have the inhabitants be my noise issue

I've played with the pre-release for a bit.. seems very nice so far! Question: Is there an option to hide the Daylight and Actinic control channels for those of us that have other fixtures? (in my case, AI Sol) Minor bug in the last release that I can't test easily in the pre-release: After installi...

Is it updating your information in the portal, even if the portal can't control it?

Looks like it was meant to be there

Very, very nice! I'm really jealous.

FYI, If things go how I hope with my wifi project, I'm hoping to move the management of all of that into a server, so that individual apps don't need to worry about the memory mapping at all (or the custom ones for a particular user). It would be centralized and a user's customizations would carry a...

You could also work around the current limitation without too much effort, to control more drivers.

Yup. You won't plug dimmable LEDs in with a standard edison (3-prong) plug. They'll operate on much lower DC power that you provide with an LED driver (which would in turn be controlled by the RA), unless you were to buy an LED fixture that already just accepted a "PWM" or "0-10V DC&q...

I don't think it's getting the IP from another router. It does say the interface is "DOWN". Looks pretty similar to my config. The only difference is mine is explicitly using "Auth=WPA1", though the AP is "WPA2/WPA Mixed Mode". Interestingly, I thought I set it to "...

Awesome news. I can't wait to get the update notification and see all this effort for myself!

I did a quick search through the forum and it seems as though there's an option in the wifi setup wizard.
I wouldn't know personally though, since I've never used the wizard; )

So, mathematically speaking, you're looking for this: From 5PM to 5:03 white_level = 12*seconds_since_fivepm/180 From 5:03 to 6:30PM white_level = 12 From 6:30PM to 6:33PM white_level = 12+(33*seconds_since_sixthirty/180) From 6:33PM to 10:30PM white_level = 45 From 10:30PM to 10:33PM white_level = ...

Ah, that helps a lot!

How long do you want it to take for the transitions? For example, at the transition from 12% to 45% at 6:30PM, how long should it take to go from 12% to 45%? (I'm assuming the same amount of time for each transition)

Sounds to me like you need to define a different mathematical function for each time period. You also need to be more specific about "ramps up" when you specify those functions-- do you mean you want it to ramp linearly? If you can write a formula to determine the value based on the curren...

Yup. Right now I have a 10 second timeout for retries for the 60 second polls, but we can of course set that to whatever. I have further testing to do with things like having the access point itself disappear, but I've done some testing with just refusing connections on the server end (killing it wh...

yeah, I've definitely got that in mind, and I've already got plans to account for individual users on the forum potentially having more than one RA device.
Once I've got the basic outline of this thing I'll run it by you in a couple days to see if I've missed anything.

rimai: haha it doesn't surprise me-- I'm glad you had that section in there though, otherwise I would have been stuck... And thanks; that list of commands will definitely be handy, especially after all of the configuration changes I've been making over the past few days. binder: Great to hear. I act...

I believe the controller test sketch should be in File > Examples, but I'm not positive because I use a very not-normal configuration here. It looks like there are a few things that could make the Lighting menu go away... It might actually be worth running through the wizard to double check that eve...