Reef Angel Forum

So, I bought a few extra temp probes.
What all do I need to do to be able to see their parameters in either the screen, or the U-app?
And as far as joining them together; I basically just need to splice one probe into the wire of another, correct?
being that each is serialized.

how many probes do you have now? the controller supports 3 probes natively without any splicing.


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binder wrote:how many probes do you have now? the controller supports 3 probes natively without any splicing.


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5 is what's planned

Yeah, splice them in parallel to each other and add this to your code:

rimai wrote:Yeah, splice them in parallel to each other and add this to your code:

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  ReefAngel.AddExtraTempProbes();

We haven't found a way to look at them in the portal, correct?

I found these online which should make it easy...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000E9 ... ge_o00_s00

-Jon

cool. But how do we see the temp of the other probes?

It depends on how you want to 'see' the temperature from the extra probes. Some options are on the LCD as a custom screen, on the portal as a custom variable, and or from internal memory as a wifi request.

-Jon

Same splitter above but cheaper.
http://www.microcenter.com/product/2213 ... tter_Cable

and even cheaper...
http://www.microcenter.com/product/4493 ... ower_Cable

and yet even cheaper if you aren't in a hurry. Free shipping too...
http://www.microcenter.com/product/4493 ... ower_Cable

I ordered one of these, will try to modify it to work. Hopefully it doesn't have too much circuitry.

Roberto, I can't find the post talking about using a resistor in the circuit when using a bunch of temp probes. If I am able to turn this hub into just a passive hub what type of resistor should I use and where would I place it?


https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product. ... lsrc=aw.ds

I have a RA* controller I've also added an additional temp probe to my system and found two ways to add it in code.

I found this first:

ReefAngel.Params.Temp[T4_PROBE]; <--- didn't notice a change

And then in this thread:

ReefAngel.AddExtraTempProbes(); <--- displays temp 4, 5, & 6 to the LCD and Uapp

Two questions:

1) What does ReefAngel.Params.Temp[T4_PROBE]; do?
2) Can the number of temps displayed be limited? Having only 4 temp probes for now, I'd like to not have Temp 5 and Temp 6 displayed.

No
Either 3 or 6.

Thanks for the quick reply. NP.