Profilux II plus aquarium controller

[mediaone]

no .... but here is the story...

I got profilux months ago and hooked up wireless from my XP desktop no problem at all...

then I bought a laptop with Visa... tried to connect ... no problem! Awesome....

BUT suddenly I came home one day and none of my machines had internet and I couldn't connect to the profilux. I checked router and all of the security was put on (I have it off).... so I redid all that. I think Vista may have reconfigured the router? Anyway....

Still using 3.02 at this time, I put everything back to normal, I made an ad hoc connection and redid everything. Again I could get in to the WLAN card and make changes no problem. The control software would not connect though. Port 10001.....

So I decided to upgrade to the new software and new firmware. No problem. Now the control software see's the controller but won't make the connection...

Please advise,

[niloc16]

but for the average person hooking up WLAN is next to impossible. it seems easy to developers and people who are good at computers but for the basic hobbyist good bloody luck. i have had it for a year and still no luck, i gave up wasting my time months ago and until i start hearing on here that people are having huge success with doing so i'm not trying again. just my 2 bits

[mediaone]

oh ... i'm sorry I was only saying "no" to running Windows Vista....

I am fairly handy with computers and I STILL feel that it is way to difficult to setup. You can see that GHL agrees by the changes they have made to the software and the firmware. This is something very good to see though!

Hopefully you will get yours up and running soon.

Regards,

[Matthias Gross]

Vista - no thanks!

At Macna i setup some PCs and ProfiLux. Usually it was done in 2-3 minutes.
Under Vista it was about 10 minutes. All the settings you need are hidden in some confusing menus of Vista. And Vista restores old settings or changes settings you have done some seconds before. It's unbelievable with Vista. I removed Vista on all our PCs here, we only use XP Professional until Vista works in an expectable way.

@mediaone:
Maybe Vista made some security updates or changed the firewall settings?
For testing: Deactivate the firewall (if Vista allows you to do this)
Another idea: If you selected "obtain IP automatically" you must have activated something like "DHCP-server" in your router.

[Matthias Gross]

@Niloc: I know at least 5 persons got their WLAN running (in this and the other forum)...

We want to improve the ProfiLuxControl again in some weeks. We can't do much more than we did recently but there are still some things we could make easier for the user.
But to be honest: Without a minimum knowledge about the network and the PCs at home (firewall, WLAN-security) it is not an easy job.

[mediaone]

Matthias,

I have the router DHCP correctly setup and the WLan card in the profilux is set to obtain the IP automatically. I can see that the Profilux is able to acquire an IP from the router by watching the client list inside the router. The control software even finds the IP address, but it will not connect.

I have Windows Vista on my laptop (which worked last week with no settings changes!) and I have Win XP Pro on my desktop. I am unable to connect with either at this time despite all security turned off (both machines!) - even the firewall in my router is disconnected at this time.

I have knowledge about all of the attributes/settings required to complete this connection - it simply is not working! I'm not saying i'm perfect or not missing anything ... but I should be able to get this running! I don't get why it won't work now ... any other ideas?

I had this setup no problem in the past so it can't be that my hardware isn't compatible or anything like that. The rest of my network is functioning normally.

Please advise,

[Matthias Gross]

If ProfiLuxControl finds the card but isn't able to communicate with ProfiLux these are possible reasons:
- port 10001 is blocked (in windows or in the router) - for searching the card another port is used!
- an other port than 10001 is selected in WLAN card or ProfiLuxControl
- the baudrate in ProfiLux (only adjustable over the frontpanel of ProfiLux) is different to the baudrate in the WLAN card (only adjustable over the lantronix web configuration site) (recommendation: 9600 on both sides)
- the WLAN is not plugged in completely
- worst case: card and/or ProfiLux is defective - but this never happened until now

[reef]

trying to connect a Tunze 6055 to the profilux

the nano can be controlled from 4-18w. when converting to volts is that 4-18v

when i try to set the volts from 4-18 in the profilux control it keeps changing the 18v to 10v. any reason why?

[Matthias Gross]

I think this is a misunderstanding.
These are 2 different things: output power of the pump (in Watts) and output voltage of the ProfiLux (in Volts).
Maximum output voltage of ProfiLux is 10V -> at this voltage the pump will have the maximum power (18W in your case).
As far as i know the Tunze pumps even have the maximum power at 8V control voltage.

[reef]

Thanks Matthias,

re the dosing pumps.
if i select 24 dosings a day will the pump dose every hour or do i have to put the times in.?

i want to dose cal/kh/mg every hour.