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Is it possible to use the iPhone app without the wireless unit? I keep my reefangel connect to a laptop via the USB cable. The laptop is on my wifi network.

You will need some sort of TCP to Serial application.

Try this and let us know if it works.
http://www.hw-group.com/products/hw_vsp/index_en.html

I will happily download the file from the link you sent if you can give me any idea what I need to do to use it. I am tech savvy, but when it comes to networking, ip addresses, port forwarding, etc... I'm a little lost

The wifi is basically a device that translates serial data into TCP data.
You need an application in the computer that can do the same thing.
The wifi attachment uses port 2000 and if you use the same port, you should be able to achieve the exact same thing.
The concept is to forward all incoming data on port TCP port 2000 to the serial port connected to your RA.
And after a second look, I don't think that software will do that
There is a draw back to that though. I don't think you will find a canned software out there that can do both incoming and outgoing.
This means, you would have to choose between using iPhone app or updating webbanner.
I remember some conversation in the past where someone was going to create such an application that could do both, but I don't think the idea ever moved forward.

Another one to try:
http://www.pira.cz/eng/piracom.htm

dave and i were working on an app like this in java but were having problems with making it cross platform. looks like we may have to revisit the project. its on my github account called rawebserver if anybody wants to take a look.

One more to try:
http://itp.nyu.edu/~dbo3/SerialServer/SerialServer.html