Digital Aquatics Archon Owners Thread

[Pickupman66]

Hm?.... I use the apc wavemaker on my two. Let me see what I can show.

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[Pickupman66]

The two are different. So I have not used advance wavemaker. I've been wanting to try it but haven't rewired since I got my radion.

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[Darryl Hey]

I have the archon set up and is running great except being able to access it away from home .
can't get the port forwarding happening. have a apple air extreme router and called apple tech and they couldnt help me
anybody have any ideas or can help ?

 

[FlyingFishSKYw]

I've got mine running through an Apple AirPort Extreme. I'm out of town right now, but when I get home this weekend I can help you out.


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[Darryl Hey]

I've got mine running through an Apple AirPort Extreme. I'm out of town right now, but when I get home this weekend I can help you out.


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Thanks !:celeb1:

 

[n2585722]

Darryl, are you able to access the Archon at home OK?

 

[Darryl Hey]

yes everything works fine as long as I'm hooked up to local wifi network go to another location or use cell nada
spoke with apple and they couldnt figure it out
the problem is the air extreme is not getting the correct numbers and who knows what port the archon is running through even the 80 is its selected

 

[n2585722]

If you go to the setup page you should see myReef Cloud ID. This is probably the MAC address your Archon is using. It uses a different one for wifi than wired. You will need the mac address to setup your router. You can also get this from your router. Unfortunately I have no experience with that router. Also the IP addresses are displayed here. You will need this also. What you will need to do is setup a reserved IP for the Archon. This is done in the router but you will need the mac address of the Archon to do this. once this is setup you will need to setup port forwarding for the Archon. The Archon does use port 80 as the default port. You will probably need someone that is familiar with that router to guide you through the menus for the router. I just wanted to make sure you were able to get into it until someont can help with setting up your router.

 

[FlyingFishSKYw]

I posted a tutorial on the Digital Aquatics forum for setting up port forwarding on a Mac:

http://www.forum.digitalaquatics.com/viewtopic.php?f=97&t=14581&p=64014#p64014

 

[n2585722]

Darryl, did you get you router setup OK with Chris's tutorial?

 

[Darryl Hey]

no it will not work
real messed up want it to work so bad but i guess only receiving alarm notifications is what ill have to live with until someone can come up with an idea

 

[n2585722]

You did go through the tutorial on the DA forum?

 

[Darryl Hey]

yes and everything is just like it is supposed to be , problem comes when you try to login in off the home network nothing i enter or was told to enter works . Even called apple and they said the following :
WE DON'T RECCOMEND ANYBODY IN THERE RIGHT MIND TO USE PORT 80
and with that said did everything possible to try to get it to work end result NADDA:headwally::angryfire::headwally:

 

[n2585722]

Have contacted DA support? Eric is pretty good at setting these things up. I have used port 80 since I got the RKE and had no issues. You can use a different port, but that requires a little more setup to do. I have a Asus router and use there ddns service to connect to mine. Without a ddns service that your router supports your outside IP may change and leave you without a connection. The tutorial did not cover that.

 

[Darryl Hey]

Ok so after a bit of fussing today i was able to get it working
how you ask?
the cloud id was not correct and when i went to the setup page and started all over the missing last to numbers came up and everything fell into place and works fine.
Go figure the original archon cloud id number that identifies the device was incorrect by leaving the last 2 numbers off
BUT ALL IS GOOD! Thanks for all the help! :0

 

[FlyingFishSKYw]

Ok so after a bit of fussing today i was able to get it working
how you ask?
the cloud id was not correct and when i went to the setup page and started all over the missing last to numbers came up and everything fell into place and works fine.
Go figure the original archon cloud id number that identifies the device was incorrect by leaving the last 2 numbers off
BUT ALL IS GOOD! Thanks for all the help! :0

Glad you got it going!! :spin1:

 

[Pickupman66]

Fwiw, I dont use port 80 to the outside world to access mine. I use an obscure port and forward that on to the archon. Works great. Glad you got yours working.

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[Pickupman66]

Has anyone setup​ a jebao DC return pump on their archon? What function did you use?

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[FlyingFishSKYw]

Has anyone setup​ a jebao DC return pump on their archon? What function did you use?

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Mine is set on the ReturnPump setting with 0 out of delay and default On.

No issues to report, although I never use any of the standby functions.

 

[n2585722]

I was thinking a while back about using the ramp function on a return pump. But I never got a controllable pump to try it.