Reef Angel Forum

I've been watching it for a while now. I took the cable that goes from the relay expansion box and to the second relay box and coiled it up instead of letting it snake in and out of the other cables and can report that it doesn't bus lock anymore. I didn't expect that to work, but it clearly does.

Nice, looks like Lee wrote it. I'd forgotten about that. I am looking at the libraries now.

Is there a way to proactively update the portal data when an action happens so the portal doesn’t miss relays turning on briefly for dosing? Or alternatively trigger an email when something turns on? I am not sure if my code is making my auto feeder turn on and I can’t catch it running because it on...

Probably, depending on how close it can be to AC cords and Vortech cables. My plywood board it is all screwed too is a mess. I had only a relay expansion and 16 channel dimmer expansion on the expansion hub and was getting them all day yesterday. I took the dimmer expansion off and put the pH expans...

My pH expansion lasted about 8 hours today before it caused a bus lock. Previous to that it only lasted about an hour before causing one. Seems to be kind of random. I only get bus locks when it is connected now. I've tried different ports on the expansion hub. I don't see corrosion on the USB cable...

OK. I found one source of bus lock, I think. It was the 16 channel dimmer. In all of my disconnecting and reconnecting of things I'd never dropped power to it and restarted it. Each time I plugged the USB connector back in to the expansion hub I would end up with flashing red status and bus error. N...

Yes, I've tried a few. I know the hub works to some extent because I have the relay expansion on it and it is working, but I got that hub used from someone also around a year ago. It has some age on it. I'll try other ports on it.

Heh, yes that it has the same address or yes that the pH expansion is probably the source of my bus lock? Or both?

I'd bought the pH expansion exactly one year ago and am just now installing it, so it's basically new. Maybe the probe which was stored in the original vial is no good or something?

OK. I can do that. Does it keep the same address of 0x41 when it is on the expansion hub?

The pH expansion seems to be wonky a bit. It keeps going to 0.0 reading and then the status light starts flashing, so maybe that's the source of my bus lock earlier.

Did you add this to your code? ReefAngel.Add16ChPWM(); Yes, that's in setup(). And I see it detected at compile time. I recall that the expansion board is at 0x41 address. Is it possible that this address is also in use by the pH expansion which seems to be working or somehow doesn't work when atta...

OK. I hit reboot in the ReefAngel Status app to reboot the RA+ and when it came back it isn't flashing and now the portal sees both relay boxes after reboot and I can control them and the pH expansion works, but now my 16 channel dimming expansion isn't doing anything. I have the main relay box and ...

Clever. I like it. Thanks!

I just added some new expansions, relay expansion and ph expansion. In the process I wrote all new code. I feel like I must have forgotten something important because I can't control any outlets with the portal and anything set to Auto but that isn't specified in the "Setup" statement to b...

What's the best way to code a 4th doser? I assume this will work to have it come on 4 times during the day and run for 1 minute each time, but it's a little inflexible. if (((hour() == 10) || (hour() == 14) || (hour() == 18) || (hour() == 22)) && (minute() < 1)) { // run autofeeder for 1 min...

Nevermind again, heh. I saw it get recognized as a module in the Arduino GUI and it all compiled so I think I'm good.

I've been gone so long I hadn't seen that you released the Star. Nice. Gotta get me one at some point.

Nevermind. I hadn't worked in the code in so long I forgot where to look for things.

It's ReefAngel.AddPHExpansion(); right?

Anything special in setup() to add the relay expansion? I didn't see that one in ReefAngel.h

OK. Just refer to them in a code statement to get those included or specifically include at the top somehow?

I have an RA+ which has been running the same code for about a year with a single expansion, the 16 channel dimmer. I am now hooking up a used expansion hub and connecting my dimmer expansion, a used relay expansion box, and the ph expansion. If I just reboot the RA+ I figured I would not need to lo...

Roberto, I went back and re-read what you wrote. I would love to be able to do feed mode on the Reef Angel and get the QD pumps to respond. Were you saying at the end of your post that they're already in "slave" mode and the Reef Angel RF module would work fine since they're slaves to the ...

I don't think it's a good idea to put something in your loop that writes to internal memory. I think there are a finite amount of writes for those memory locations before they go bad, so best to preserve them.

Awesome. I'm away for a while and so many things change. Thanks for the pointer.

I used github client to grab the latest dev branch from the libraries and put it into the libraries directory of the Arduino directory in Documents. Then I tried compiling my new .ino file to support my new tank and got the following. Any suggestions? It looks like it doesn't like the header file. I...

Interesting. The ReefLink doesn't seem to present them all as being in slave mode. Internally you can set certain ones as slave and others as master to each other, but perhaps they're all actually in slave. I just turn them on, adopt them with the reeflink and then load the profiles to them. No idea...

In my new build I have a few Vortech pumps. Currently running on ReefLink, I'd like to control them with ReefAngel instead. Is the RF expansion going to be available again soon? It doesn't seem to be on the store at the moment.

Any reef angel users going to be at MACNA? This year I get to attend instead of organizing. It would be cool to run into more reefangel folks to hear what they are doing with the controller.

lnevo wrote:Maybe you can help update the code for the quiet drive drivers too

Interesting. These are my first ecotech products so I didn't even know they weren't compatible. Are the quiet drives also incompatible with apex?

I just picked up a Vectra L1 from Ecotech. I don't have an RF Module (or the expansion module I'd need to add one), but I wonder if in the future I'd be able to expand the RF module to control the Vectra. Neptune Systems is waving their hands around saying that the ball is in Ecotech's court for pro...

The Gyre pump (like most so called DC pumps) is really a 3 phase AC pump. The IceCap module accepts a 0-10Volt signal and outputs a 3 phase AC signal where the frequency, current and voltage of the AC are all modulated by the 0-10 Volt input. It is not simply a matter of changing voltages, it is ac...

lnevo wrote:I forget who but someone said it was like an RC plane servo type interface and it had a different type of PWM input pattern. Lets see if I can pull up the thread

I remember that thread on reef central.

OK. When I get one I'm going to put the output on a scope to see what it is putting out since no one seems to know.