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Connect a button to reef angel?
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 5:15 pm
by dmglakewood
I'm just wondering if there is a way to wire in a button to one of the temp prob ports on the reef angle. I would like to have this button activate the food timeout on the reef angel.
I have my controller under my tank and it would be a lot easier to put a button on the side of the tank then it would be to have to crawl under my tank, scroll through the menu and click on feed fish.
Re: Connect a button to reef angel?
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 5:48 pm
by Seedlessone
Can you not use the client or the smartphone app?
Re: Connect a button to reef angel?
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:04 pm
by dmglakewood
Seedlessone wrote:Can you not use the client or the smartphone app?
I could use either one...but I think it would be more convenient to just press a button rather then try to locate my phone or go into the other room on my pc. I know it's really not that much work to do either one of those but I try to make things as simple as possible.
Re: Connect a button to reef angel?
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:10 pm
by rimai
Can you spare one of your float switches?
Re: Connect a button to reef angel?
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:18 pm
by dmglakewood
rimai wrote:Can you spare one of your float switches?
I'm using both float valves at the moment. I do have a jbj ATO though so I suppose I could use that and just run it off one of my open relay ports on the RA. Then that would free up a float valve port.
Re: Connect a button to reef angel?
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 7:07 pm
by rimai
You could use one of the ATO ports as input for your button.
Then, use this on your code:
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if (ReefAngel.LowATO.IsActive()) ReefAngel.FeedingModeStart();