Apex Questions

[bigfish14]

After almost quiting this hobby because my Apex was so frustrating, I am realizing that this little electronic is going to be my best friend. I have a question though. I named all of my outlets and I am trying to figure out how to program them from the unit itself. I do not have the Apex hooked up to a network because I have to go out and buy a wireless adapter. I want to run all of the outlets 24/7, but I can't seem to figure out how to do that from the unit itself. Anyone know how to do this?

 

[jagr200]

Google. haha

No but seriously I don't have one yet but I am looking into one. Do you have the Lite or Jr? Why were you so frustrated at first?

 

[jrb466]

http://reeftech.webs.com/

 

[dunc101]

To simply turn all of them on...
I'm assuming you want to do this directly from the APEX display module and not from the web since you don't have it hooked up. A long ethernet would definitely help you in the meantime as I find the display module rather "klunky" and only use it when I have to reset my net module =D.
The easiest way to turn all outlets on 24/7 is to go to the outlet setup portion (I'm not at home right now or else I would tell you exactly where it is on the Display module) and set all of your outlets to 'Manual On.' FWIW, it will be much easier once you get it hooked up to the your intranet and you get an IP address to it so you can configure this all from your computer. You will need to do this to configure more "advanced" settings on the APEX such as turn my lights off if the temperature in my tank is > 83 degrees. Once you learn it, it is pretty easy.

 

[bamf25]

Hate to say it is way easier to program with the web interface. Even if you temporarily move the unit to hook it to your network, I would suggest that.

 

[aandfsoccr04]

Hate to say it is way easier to program with the web interface. Even if you temporarily move the unit to hook it to your network, I would suggest that.

couldn't agree more

 

[dunc101]

One more thing to add. You probably do not want to keep your "heater" outlet on 24/7. You should be fine to keep it "Manual On" 24/7 until you get it hooked up to the web, however. I would let the Apex be a redundant fail safe for you for the heater at the least. Heaters are notorious for "sticking on" which would quickly burn up a tank. I believe the static IP address to get to your Apex will be 192.168.1.50 to start configuring it (http://192.168.1.50 with username: admin and password: 1234).

My Heater profile is simply this:


Fallback OFF
If Temp < 77.7 Then ON
If Temp > 78.0 Then OFF


And then I have an alarm which sends me an email if the temp gets above or below a set temp:

EmailAlarm
Set OFF
If Temp > 81.5 Then ON
If Temp < 76.0 Then ON
If pH > 08.40 Then ON
If pH < 07.70 Then ON