what can Aqua Notes Lite offer?

[johns]

I finally got my lapop connected wirelessly to the ACIII, and finally I can access the reef tank status and control equipment through the internet interface.

I also downloaded AquaNotes Lite and I finally figured out how to get the reef tank status shown on there as well.

My question is, what does Aqua Notes Lite offer at I cant already get through the internet interface? I'm pretty unfamiliar with it, but at first glance I am seeing the same reef satus information and control I have through the internet. Can anyone offer a little Aqua Notes 101 to highlight any interesting things?

 

[Deleted member 143833]

I think that the main benefit you will get with AquaNotes lite is that it will log tank data into a database for long-term trending. It will also allow you to keep a tank log; add fish, remove fish, change light builbs, other test which you may do can also be kept.

The WEB interface will let you see the logs which may cover enough time where the trending is not an issue; I don't remember is the logs are cleared when power is list though.

 

[johns]

I may have found another thing. I cant seem to find any way of astarting the feed cycles through the web interface. I was able to start any of my feed cycle programs once I was in Aqua Notes Lite.

I may not be familar enough with this yet - does anyone know if I am right about that?

 

[Deleted member 143833]

If you can start a feed cycle with AquaNotes I would bet that you can do it using the Telnet interface. I don't see it in the Telnet docs but I don't think they have been updated with the new version so it might be an oversight.

 

[johns]

If you can start a feed cycle with AquaNotes I would bet that you can do it using the Telnet interface.

I agree - you would think so. But I checked again and I cant seem to find any way of starting a feed cycle using the web interface.

 

[Deleted member 143833]

I know that it isn't in the web interface; I was hoping that the telnet interface was a simple command but I took a look at the raw (telnet) it appears that turning on the feed cycles include some undocumented memory read/memory write commands so I suspect that you can only do this remotely from Aquanotes.

 

[johns]

Sorry dont know enough about this wireless to know - what is the difference between the web interface and the telnet interface?

 

[Deleted member 143833]

Oh, sorry, a VERY basic description in case you are interested....

Web is basically a text connection usually to port 80 (default) where the data back and forth is HTML (special formed XML).

Telnet is an old terminal interface using normal text (ASCII) characters, no formatting (OK, you can have formatting with special escape characters but AC3 doesn't do any of that).

To connect using telnet you start a CMD prompt and type "telnet 192.168.1.50", you will get a login prompt and you can to the single-letter commands that are in the back of the manual. Telnet is the primary interface that AquaNotes uses to communicate to the AC3 and is MUCH more powerful than the web interface.

In either case doing feed cycles isnt one of the listed single-letter commands.