Aquanotes frustration

[Aquaduck]

I realize Aquanotes Lite has no support what-so-ever but what experience I am having now with the software is giving me a warm and fuzzy for buying the retail version.

I have my COM1 on my laptop set to 9600baud, 8 bit, no parity, one stop bit, no flow control. I am running the laptop on battery only. I am connecting through the serial port connection and I can access all the data settings in the ACIII and modify time and update without problems except for the Program Editor (which is THE most important one to me). The program is downloaded and displayed incorrectly. The timer program ON/OFF states have random ascii charachters where the 'O' is in ON and OFF. Some are ok others say "LFF" or "$N" or "PFF". Attempting to send the default timer program back to the controller is successfull only if I fix all the O's. Now for the REALLY annoying part. If I change a timer name say from LT1$-A1 to MH1$-A1 and change the corresponding program line for the If time statements and attempt to send the program back to the controller, Aquanotes responds with a message that says "NO ALARM TIMER NAMED LT1" so I click OK and then I get "Run-time error '5': Invalid procedure call or argument" clicking OK closes down Aquanotes completely.

I am going to try this one more time later but I'll try using the ethernet port. If the serial port is no longer supported then it should say that in the manual.

 

[Aquaduck]

Well the ethernet port works like a charm. I guess Neptune needs to revise the manual to remove all the information about using a serial port with the ACIII.

 

[clp]

When the manual was initially written we were going to have support for the serial port, however later we decided to use the serial port only for expansion. Unfortunately, the documentation was never updated. I just updated the manuals in the support section of our website to remove references to the serial port.

Curt

 

[Slickdonkey]

Aquaduck, I was unable to rename my light timers from LT1 to MH1 as well (I'm using ethernet).

 

[clp]

You must also change the alarm name on the Pager Alarm on the Modem/Misc tab of the program editor. If you have a Jr., AquaNotes incorrectly assumes that the pager alarm field is valid, so you need to change the LT1 timer name on the controller itself, and then you can use the AquaNotes editor. This bug will be fixed in the next release of AquaNotes.

Curt