turning vortechs off during feeding

fwadiver · Post by **fwadiver** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:28 pm

is there a way to turn the vortechs off during feeding mode using the rf module? I know i can just plug them into the relay box, but was hoping to not have to use relays for them. The feeding mode is still too much flow for most of my lps to grab food, actually it would be great to have 2 feeding modes one with the vortechs completely off for feeding meaty stuff to lps then one with the vortechs in feed mode for when i feed the tiny stuff for sps/filter feeders so it stays suspended for a bit.

rimai · Post by **rimai** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:31 pm

No, the vortech driver itself doesn't offer a totally off mode

fwadiver · Post by **fwadiver** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:45 pm

is there a way to make it go slower than feeding mode? Or does it look like i'm hooking them up to relays?

rimai · Post by **rimai** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 2:25 pm

No. That's the lowest.

rimai · Post by **rimai** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 2:26 pm

There may be a hardware setting that can be changed though.
I know you can change the night mode speed.
Check the vortech manual.

lnevo · Post by **lnevo** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:45 pm

You can change feeding mode speed. Default is 50% but you can make it "Barely Spinning"

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fwadiver · Post by **fwadiver** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:07 am

will investigate that thanks.

edit: reading the manual it says you can power off master/slave chain by holding power off button.. guess i need to crack open an eco smart and then look at the rf schematic to figure that one out.

lnevo · Post by **lnevo** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:37 am

Good point...there must be a signal to off/on then!

rimai · Post by **rimai** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:53 am

I never knew that

lol
I need to spy on the RF signal to see what the master sends out
Thanks for sharing

rimai · Post by **rimai** » Sun Nov 04, 2012 10:04 pm

I sniffed the drivers today and found out that indeed there is a command for on/off.
Let me apply a patch and test it out.

rimai · Post by **rimai** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 11:06 pm

Ok, I created the patch, which is attached.
It will require an update to the libraries though.
You can grab the dev brach at: https://github.com/reefangel or wait until the next update.
To turn on/off during the mode, use a code like this:

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  if (ReefAngel.DisplayedMenu==FEEDING_MODE)
    ReefAngel.RF.VortechOff();
  else
    ReefAngel.RF.VortechOn();

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