LAN connection up and running in under 10 mins

[elzool]

Last night I spent about ten minutes with the ProfiLux and got my LAN connection up and running.

Thanks for making this so easy Matthias!

It would have been five minutes, but I hadn't ever opened the unit before and wanted to be certain I didn't do anything wrong. Then I looked around inside it for several minutes admiring the design. I have always liked the unit and how modular it seemed to be. With the different cards& EX Upgrade Kit that can be plugged in I knew they had thought ahead and didn't just use a plain box with a display, they seemed to have really thought this through. Having seen the inside, the expansions make complete sense.

I connected the unit initially to a switch I have my pc connected to and when doing an auto scan it found the card without a problem. I then ran a cable from my Linksys router in a closet into the attic, dropped it down a wall behind the tank, pulled it out, plugged it in and viola' it no longer saw the card. I played with it for a few seconds and then just told it to use the IP address it was on instead of automatic scanning and it works flawlessly now.

Total time spent with the ProfiLux was just under ten minutes. Thanks Matthias!

This morning sometime I'll check out some port forwarding in my router and see if I can access the unit from outside my home network.

Man I'm loving the control I have over this now.

Thanks again Matthias and all the great folks at GHL!

 

[AQD_ottawa]

Fantatic.

Glad you love it so much, the LAN connections is the easiest of them all, and no with V3.05 WLAN will be a walk in the park also.

Keep the great reviews coming in. We appreciate all your support as much you do ours!

 

[elzool]

Wow, my remote connection worked like a charm!

I set the port forwarding in my router and then since I telecommute and have a vnc connection to my office computer I downloaded the software there. I plugged in my information from my dynamic dns account and hit connect and it saw it immediately.

Heh... I think it took longer to install the software than for me to configure everything.

Thanks again Matthias!

 

[MSHUR]

Hmn.. I use different way to look at sensor overview page.
i go to remote desctop option and type IP address from my home comp.
I guess there is one more way!!!

 

[elzool]

Mike, when you say sensor overview page, what does that mean?

 

[MSHUR]

Under probe/sensor control you have sensor overview page so you can see all probes date, like temp, orp, salinity etc

 

[elzool]

gotcha, i didnt think it through before replying

 

[Matthias Gross]

elzool,

thank your for your feedback.
This shows me that the development of firmware and ProfiLuxControl 3.05 was not a waste of time!

It seems we made (W)LAN-setup again much easier.

Regarding remote control:
There are several ways to achieve remote control - for example remote desktop (like MSHUR uses) or port-forwarding in the router and running ProfiLuxControl on the external PC (like elzool).
With remote desktop you need not to install ProfiLuxControl on the host PC but you have smaller performance.

 

[Chrisrush]

Richard, I am at the point where I need to setup the port forwarding. What program did you use to obtain the dynamic dns account?

 

[boboxx]

Chris,

There are a tone of them out there... just do a google search for "free dynamic DNS" if you what to register your own name, some of them also offer DNS hosting and dynamic DNS hosting.

just to list a fiew:
no-ip
everydns
freedns.afraid

I have my own name that I bought from active-domain, I have also use the service from granitecanyon and dyndns in the past alll excelent!!

Christisan

 

[elzool]

I used DynDNS and set up a free account last year. Setting up an account is pretty painless.

Then what I did was to tell my router to forward requests for port 10001 to the IP address I set my Profilux up at.

Then in the Profilux software, at the remote computer, for the TCP/IP hostname enter the url to your dyndns account using port 10001.

With the free DNS account, the 'hardest' part about it is that every 30 days you'll get notification that you need to manually 'touch' or refresh your account to keep it active. That just means you'll click on a url in the email and logging and save your account record. Takes about 10 seconds.

Any more questions, let me know.

Matthias couldn't have made it any easier I think.

 

[Chrisrush]

Thanks. I'm setting up the dns account right now. I'll have to setup the port forwarding when I get home.

 

[boboxx]

also depending on the home router you have, some of them have a built in dynamic DNS client... look at your router to see with one is supported. if not you will have to install a client on a computer to synchronize the IP with the name.