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I am helping a friend set up his RA that I recommended he buy based on research I had done on various controllers. The issue we ran into last night was with the RA Wizard. We were able to get the preload sketch up and running. In fact the reload has been running fir several weeks without issue. We were adding the wifi attachment when we ran into trouble. In order to get the head unit to see the attachment we used the wizard to select wifi and continued through all the steps programming ports, PWM lights etc.

The issue occurred when we uploaded this new sketch created in the wizard. The new light settings seemed strange. Fists off you could no longer view the light settings on the RA head unit. The main menu no longer had lights of any kind on it. The second thing was the light intensities seemed off. We were able to look at the light intensity levels via the android app and it was reading way low, like 15% Actenic and 20% daylight when it was 4 hours into the ramp up when it should have been at end% something like 56% and 45 % .
We tried fixing this by rerunning the wizard again this time using the parabola to keep things simple. After uploading the lights were just as bad off.

So we thought let's just return to the preload and call it a night for now. After trying to upload the preload only the actenics would come on and the head unit menu still did not have any light functionality available. The only way we could get the lights on at that point was to override using the android app.

So his tank is currently stuck with having to manually override the RA settings using the Androind app.



Any help would be great!

My best guess is that the Wizzard was over writing the old sketch but not deleting the old sketch, so we were ending up with a hybrid mess of a sketch. Then when we tried to reload the preload it just saved on top off the whole pile of junk code creating a totally non functing mess.

Any ideas?

The menu gets stripped out to save memory.
If you want to have the original menu, you need to add this to the setup() section of your code: The preloaded code should have the standard menu added though.
Which path did you choose? Hard coded settings or internal memory?
Can I see the code?

I used the hard code not the internal memory

Do you need to delete old sketch before loading new one when using the wizard?

I will see if I can get a screen shot of the preload that was not showing menu

Everytime you upload a code, it will erase the old one automatically.

Is it possible to have internal code conflicting with hard coded code? If not then there must be an issue with the code we are generating. Once I can get my friend to send me a screen shit I will post it. I think he is at work.

Thanks so much for the help Roberto!

No, the hard code ignores the memory settings.