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kirkwood
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My RA+ with Wifi arrives tomorrow. Can someone please direct me to the most current install thread?

thanks.
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dbmet
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New RA Setup Assistance

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What kind of computer are you using? Pc or Mac? Have you downloaded the software from the Reefangel site?
http://www.reefangel.com/download.aspx
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kirkwood
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dbmet wrote:What kind of computer are you using? Pc or Mac? Have you downloaded the software from the Reefangel site?
http://www.reefangel.com/download.aspx
PC. Yes I already downloaded and installed the RA software.
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Check the download section for the manual. Pay close attention to the section "Loading your Initial Memory Settings". You have to do this or nothing else will work.

Post here if you need help!

--Colin
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In reviewing the RA Manual, can I skip the initial part about connecting the ph and temp probe, powering up the RA, and cycling through the menus with the joystick? Can I just go directly to connecting the RA to my computer, loading in the memory, and then getting right into the Wizard to generate my custom code?

Then after I load in the custom code, I can start in with getting the WiFi running??
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Yep. Sounds like a plan!

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Colin,

Does that Trendnet ip camera have an android app for viewing?
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Yes, TRENDNet Cloud View. It's feature poor, but works.

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One of the things that I did when first starting was to go a little slower than you might like, but studied and implemented one thing at a time. That way I was sure what was causing a problem when things started not working like I expected. So to say:

1. Unpack and inspect
2. Power it up, load the initial memory settings as advised
3. Bring up one thing, a pump, a light, a temp probe, anything
4. Sit back, be proud, take a bow
5. Do another
6. repeat
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Building new 29g Nano after landlord went berserk over my 4 75 gallon tanks, Multiple RA's, Water mixing stations, etc. Your help welcomed in remembering all I've forgotten.
kirkwood
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I'm up and running with WiFi. So far so good.

Now I would like to know how to name my temperature probes so that on the RA display, portal, and droid app they say tank and room instead of T1 and T2. Also want to do the same thing to name my ports.
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kirkwood wrote:I'm up and running with WiFi. So far so good.

Now I would like to know how to name my temperature probes so that on the RA display, portal, and droid app they say tank and room instead of T1 and T2. Also want to do the same thing to name my ports.
The portal is easy. Just open up the portal and go to "labels". You can re-name everything there.

On the android app, it's under Settings, Controller Information, Labels. Or you can just hit "Download" from the Controller Information menu to download all your labels from the portal.

On the RA screen, it's more involved. Start here:

http://forum.reefangel.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=109

Hope this helps.

--Colin
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Thanks Colin. I'm making steady progress. Got my Label going now.
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