Reef Angel Forum

I bought a used reef angel which might have been a mistake i am just trying to load the simple file to reset it to what it comes with. I installed all the files i need when i do the first reef angel installer it goes all the way through and tells me it cant find any ports and through arduino i can't load anything tried ragen and it throws an error the first line i also got the wifi adapter which i can't get to work, this is night 2 of working on this thing and am wondering if maybe it isn't my netbook i have windows 7 ultimate on it i am lost i am tthinking of trying to sell it and get something simpler as i don't really have time to learn a programming language at this time can anyone point me in the right direction

Let's get the controller 1st and then we can move to the wifi.
1. Go to http://www.reefangel.com/update, install, and convert to development libraries.
2. On RAGen, make sure you have these paths on Edit->Settings:
Sketch: Documents\Arduino
Libraries: Documents\Arduino\libraries
Program: C:\Program Files\Reef Angel Controller
3. Generate a code.
4. Open Arduino IDE.
5. Since we don't know which bootloader you have, you will have to test both boards. Go to Tools->Boards and select "Reef Angel Controller" and try to upload. If it doesn't work, select "Reef Angel Controller w/ optiboot" and try to upload.

That should take care of loading something on the controller.

this is the code

Binary sketch size: 29490 bytes (of a 32256 byte maximum)
C:\Program Files\Reef Angel Controller\hardware/tools/avr/bin/avrdude -CC:\Program Files\Reef Angel Controller\hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf -v -v -v -v -patmega328p -cstk500v1 -P\\.\COM4 -b115200 -D -Uflash:w:C:\Users\Ryan\AppData\Local\Temp\build2465438365122093310.tmp\ReefAngelSimple.cpp.hex:i

avrdude: Version 5.4-arduino, compiled on Oct 11 2007 at 19:12:32
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://

System wide configuration file is "C:\Program Files\Reef Angel Controller\hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf"

Using Port : \\.\COM4
Using Programmer : stk500v1
Overriding Baud Rate : 115200
avrdude: ser_open(): setting dtr
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Recv:
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude: Send: Q [51] [20]
avrdude: Recv:
avrdude: stk500_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0x51

avrdude done. Thank you.

it then tells be problem uploading to board

when i try to use ragen it tells me file too large

On the first post, the code you were trying to load, did you try the other board too?
I don't know which board you have, so we need to find that out first.

yes i tried all 3 boards the first 2 came back with that error and the 3 one reef controller plus gets stuck on a line and so i am pretty sure it is not that one

I tried it on another computer and got the same results