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I don't think I got around to the Sicce pump I got and setting it up on the Hydros yet. I am also powering it with a force port on my Kraken instead of using the Sicce Power supply. So I had to setup a power output for it also. I will go over that first. I have a coupe of screenshots of the settings. The app and firmware was updated recently and now there is the added category called family so the like outputs can be grouped together. This uses the generic output type and that is in the advanced family so you would select advanced for the family and then select generic for the output type. It has 2 inputs for control. One is a leak detector and the active when is set to dry. So since I used the AND combiner mode both inputs have to be in active mode for the output to turn on. The other input is the sump low sensor. This ones active mode is set to wet since when it is dry the water level is too low and we want the pump off. The internal schedule is not used on this output, The output device is force port 1 on the Kraken controller. The power safe range is set from 7.1 to 30 watts. I used to use schedules and had one for dropping the speed when it went into feed mode but I now do it differently and do not change the return for feed mode but the power range is still set so I could still do that without an alert. The pump runs normally at around 24 watts. If the wattage gets out of the set range an orange alert is sent. I either input is not available the output is setup to turn off. I have the output set to be active in all modes except low power. The Sicce pumps will not run on 12v and the force ports will output 12v insead of 24v when in low power mode so I just make it inactice. The Sicce replaced a AC pump and it was not powered when there was no power anyway so it is no different now that it has been for years. There is no depends on setting on this output. I will continue with the setup of a Sicce pump in Hydros after the screenshots for the Sicce power output.

Now for setting up a Sicce SDC pump in Hydros It is considered a third party device in Hydros and that part needs to be setup first before the output for the pump is setup. Below is a screenshot showing the 3rd Party Devs category on the status screen. Click on the three dots on the right side of the screen across from the heading and then select add third party device. A popup will come up like the one in the second screenshot below. Since I already had mine setup I used a different name to get the screenshot. You would enter the name and then click create. That would bring up the next screenshots below. You would choose the family variable pumps and the the type of Sicce pump. That will bring up the last screenshot for this section below. The last entry is the Sicce key which you have to get from the Sicce app for the particular pump so the Hydros can communicate with the Sicce cloud and command that pump. The next section the output settings will be after the screenshots for this section.

Now to the return output setup. The first screenshot below are the settings for the Sicce output. The family s variable pumps and the type is Sicce pump. The output device is the one created earlier in the above section. Since I am using this for a return pump I set it to runs constantly and set the speed to 95%. I did not change the active in modes settings here. To control the output on and off in the runs constantly mode you use the depends on settings which here are set to the original return output that was originally used by the AC return pump since I had already setup everything on it. I will also post it but all I did was set the output device to none on it. The dependency mode is set to off if off. That is it for this outputs settings. Now to the original return output settings. This one uses return pump for family setting. The leak input is set to the leak detector at the tank. The output device is set to none. In active in mode the only mode not selected is low power and is uncheck since the power will be removed from the pump if in low power mode so it does not need to be on here either although either one would stop the pump. Depends on is unused on this output. That is about it for my setup using a Sicce SDC pump for a return pump.

 

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A new app and firmware was released recently for the Hydros controllers. A way to access the controllers without having any internet access was added by adding an emergency login that is local only and does not require internet access. It has to be enabled in the options though. Below is screenshot of the emergency mode turned on and another to setup a password for this.

Below are some screenshot using the app to access the controllers in emergency mode. In this mode there are no pages so all inputs and outputs are on the same page. You cannot make changes to the settings, but you can select a different mode or override outputs from between off, auto or on. It uses bluetooth to communicate this way. The screenshots were from my iPad which has no way of communicating with the Hydros cloud if there is no internet. Also notice the Sicce pump Icon is red since it also requires the internet to communicate with the Sicce cloud. The output tiles that are gray are off and the ones with blue or green highlight are on. The ones that are orange are either in override or there is some other setup that has it forced on or off. The inputs that show unconfigured or none also require internet since those values are from the cloud. The ones that show none or manually added values. The ones that are unconfigured are from the automatic testing i the iV or KH Carer. All the normal probes and sensors will show their current values. I thought this was a neat new addition. Before I had to use my phone with wifi turned off so it would access the internet using the mobile service then enter bluetooth mode to access the controllers so I could login to the cloud. The new way requires no cloud login but you still have to enter the emergency mode password to gain access.