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Awesome.

This sounds like it might be what I want to disable the Auto-Feeder if I do a manual feed, like I was asking about over the weekend and you said to just override it.

I was afraid if I override it I would forget to remove the override and the fish would not get feed for a couple of days.

You need to disable the StartFeedMode() though...not the Feeder, but yes it can be used to Stop() the feeder for X amount of time

Cool I'll look into it when you have more info up about it.
It's nothing earth shattering right now.
I can do an override if I do a manual feed.

The code for my mixing station is pretty complete at this point. Want to do some cleanup and commenting so it's clearer to read. Right now it's a bit on the convoluted side. I also want to clean up the use-case for the TimedPort class so I can use as an example in the documentation.

In any event, the cool part is that salt mixing is now fully automated. As my salt water bin gets low, I put the RA into waterchange mode which kicks off the mixing pump for 12 hours. Normally it's running every for an hour every other hour. Then I turn on an unused port which then starts adding water slowly (3 seconds on / 30 seconds off) until the "average" salinity drops below 35ppt. I've only tested so far with adding 5 gallons of water to the barrel, but after I do my water change this weekend, I'll try from a full bin of fresh water. By the way, if the barrel has been emptied below the low ato switch, then it will first pump in X amount of water. I've set this for 30 seconds but I have to see how much water that actually is Either way, I'll get some testing in this weekend.

Hopefully I can start doing some calibration testing soon on the auto water change pump so I can move forward on that piece.

Also, I haven't added this to the libraries yet, but I registered an issue so I can make a pull request. I added a function Auto to ReefAngel.Relay which will remove the masks from a port. We already had this with Override, but I think it reads cleaner without using Override. So soon we'll have On(), Off(), and Auto().

I am getting in on this conversation late but going back to the first part. Why not run the whole thing off of one RA? Would the r e be enough memory in one controller to do all of it?

This was before RANet existed. It still may be too much distance. The mixing station is in the basement on opposite end of the house.

If this wasnt an issue then would using on controller have enough memory? Is there anyway to boost the signal on RANet?

Yeah, plenty of memory. That's not the issue, just the distance.

You can replace the XBee's with the pro models (series 1) and get more distance. They have to be reprogrammed, but it works.

--Colin