New RA Setup Assistance

kirkwood · Post by **kirkwood** » Thu May 16, 2013 5:45 am

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

thanks.

dbmet · Post by **dbmet** » Thu May 16, 2013 5:52 am

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

kirkwood · Post by **kirkwood** » Thu May 16, 2013 6:06 am

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.

cosmith71 · Post by **cosmith71** » Thu May 16, 2013 7:26 am

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

kirkwood · Post by **kirkwood** » Fri May 17, 2013 7:07 am

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??

cosmith71 · Post by **cosmith71** » Fri May 17, 2013 7:11 am

Yep. Sounds like a plan!

--Colin

kirkwood · Post by **kirkwood** » Fri May 17, 2013 7:12 am

Colin,

Does that Trendnet ip camera have an android app for viewing?

cosmith71 · Post by **cosmith71** » Fri May 17, 2013 7:35 am

Yes, TRENDNet Cloud View. It's feature poor, but works.

--Colin

rossbryant1956 · Post by **rossbryant1956** » Fri May 17, 2013 1:01 pm

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

kirkwood · Post by **kirkwood** » Sat May 18, 2013 11:15 am

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.

cosmith71 · Post by **cosmith71** » Sat May 18, 2013 11:27 am

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

kirkwood · Post by **kirkwood** » Sat May 18, 2013 7:37 pm

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

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