Setting up email notifications for AC3

[djtonton]

You might have to open that port up on your firewall if you are using one. On the router you can allow ports make sure that 25 or 80 are open.

You also need to check with your email provider to make sure your name doesnt need to authenicate before sending out emails. If it does you will need
6. Email Auth. I have it set to Off.
This turned on


let me know if you need any help I work for an I.T. company and should hopefully be able to get that up and running for you.

What email provider are you using (ex. @yahoo, @aol, @hotmail, @live...)

Tony

:beer:

 

[melev]

I'll give that a try. I'm using @swbell.net

 

[jstlsn]

Thanks for jumping in Tony. I didn't know what else to try.

Brad

 

[melev]

Last night, I finally got this working.

Email Auth. I have it set to ON. I then entered in my email address and password so it could send out the email, and it worked.

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[melev]

Oh, and btw, last night I got the AC3 to talk to my browser again. It was a pretty simple fix after a lot of troubleshooting in the wrong area. In the Net Setup Menu, I had to select Restart.

Fixed. :lol:

 

[jglackin]

Thank you. I read through this and got my own e-mail alerts set up. I get an e-mail and a text message to my cell phone.

 

[djtonton]

Great to hear. Now if anyone can figure out how to get an aquacontroller jr to send out alerts that would be GREAT!!!!

haha

 

[Deleted member 143833]

If you have AquaNotes (full) and keep the Jr connected to the PC you can get alerts from a Jr.

 

[djtonton]

Realllllllllllllllllly.......

so as long as i am hearing you right I should be able to hook the aqua controller up to my laptop via serial cable and then i can configure the software to send me alerts!!

If so I will buy aquanotes full right now!

Thanks alot Ken!!

 

[djtonton]

Is there any other functions like displaying graphs and counters on a website I can do as well with the aquanotes full?

 

[Deleted member 143833]

Aquanotes full version supports web access which you can use to chart and control the AC (in addition to email alarms).

 

[swannking]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14545928#post14545928 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jstlsn


......SMTP Server. I set it to the SMTP for my service provider. For example smtp.cox.net.....

I am trying to setup the email function also and I have Verizon Fios as my ISP. What should I type in as the SMTP Server?

 

[djtonton]

I want to say its going to be:

Verizon incoming mail server: incoming.verizon.net
Verizon outgoing mail server: outgoing.verizon.net

You might want to call verzion to double check.

 

[swannking]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14888667#post14888667 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by djtonton
I want to say its going to be:

Verizon incoming mail server: incoming.verizon.net
Verizon outgoing mail server: outgoing.verizon.net

You might want to call verzion to double check.

Thanks for the info. I googled it and found it to be outgoing.verizon.net.

Another question. For the DNS IP address, I use the IP of my ISP, right? But I think verizon has Dynamic IP address. I already have an account with DynDNS.com for internet access to my AC. But for email, is it going to be a problem if I put in a static DNS IP address?

 

[djtonton]

Im not to sure what teh dns ip address would be used for i dont have an ac3 yet if you can send me a screenshot that might help.

 

[Deleted member 143833]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14889223#post14889223 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by djtonton
Im not to sure what teh dns ip address would be used for i dont have an ac3 yet if you can send me a screenshot that might help.

Screens here: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1624897

The IP DNS is the IP address of the DNS server that the AC3 should contact to resolve URL (e.g., email SMTP server) to an (IP) address.

 

[swannking]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14889492#post14889492 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kenargo
Screens here: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1624897

The IP DNS is the IP address of the DNS server that the AC3 should contact to resolve URL (e.g., email SMTP server) to an (IP) address.

I am not a computer expert and ethernet, DNS, SMTP are all new to me. My AC3 is setup for web access by using a DynDNS.com created address. So if my DNS IP address changes, the old IP that I entered in the "Primary DNS Server" won't work, right? How do I get around that?

 

[Deleted member 143833]

I am not a computer expert and ethernet, DNS, SMTP are all new to me. My AC3 is setup for web access by using a DynDNS.com created address. So if my DNS IP address changes, the old IP that I entered in the "Primary DNS Server" won't work, right? How do I get around that?

I suspect it did not change. DNS usually points to your in-house router and making configuration changes to access the controller from outside wouldn't affect this setting. You shouldn't need to change anything in the IP config of the AC3 to enable external communications except, depenging on your routers ability to port forward you may need to change the 'HTTP Port' number.

Suggestion; if you are game load the new formware and webpages (see thread http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1624449); then all the settings appear on a (web) page and are much easier to configure.

 

[swannking]

No luck so far. Correct me if I am wrong. Am I suppose to keep the gateway/DNS/Alt DNS as 192.168.1.1and SMTP as outgoing.verizon.net.? I tried that and it didn't work. When I did ipconfig /all, I got some other number listed under PPP adapter, totally different IP address and DNS serve. I tried that and it didn't work. When I went into my router menu, I got a IP address for web access (that's the IP address I used for outside access which works) with yet another sets of DNS and Alt DNS address. I tried them and still NO LUCK!!!

 

[Deleted member 143833]

When you type ipconfig from the PC you will get a number of values, the important ones are:

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

The AC3 should be set to the same values. If you are running the new (beta) software you can do the configuration from the new Net Setup webpage but you can also take a look at my configuration which also uses Verizon. This thread:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1624897

Note: you need to reset the AC3 before (many) net settings are realized (either unplug/plug or Setup->Net Setup->Reset).

Once you have all this you can run an email test by connecting to the AC3 using telnet and run the following commands in order (you will see log output as it performs the various test)

>>>

If emails are not working follow these steps to debug:

Telnet into the AquaController:
In the start -> run box of your PC type ‘telnet 192.168.1.50’ or whatever the IP address of your AquaController is.
Login to the AquaController.


At the AquaController prompt type:
cons
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