Digital Aquatics Archon Owners Thread

[Pickupman66]

Originally Posted by Up2no6ood

Can you show me how you did this? I am having the same issue with reverse pwm

I have a writeup somewhere on another site with photos. Let me see if I can find it for you.

Logn and short, you need an arduino board to take analog signals from the archon and convert them into a reverse PWM. There is a guy on here who makes these boards and he made me one with a reverse programming from standard.

Let me see what I can dig back up and Ill PM it to you.

[fishguy306]

Originally Posted by n2585722

The off time should have at least some time. For this 1 minute should be OK, repeat 0 and continue forever unchecked. Also default is what you want the outlet to do if there is no comunication with the head unit. In this case that should not happen, but I would leave it off. Use the multitimer function on the output. Just setup one of the three timer slots with the timer you setup.

Thank you again, I'll take a look tonight and see if I can get this set up. I was just happy I managed to get the pump and solenoid running last night

[illjoshlli]

Originally Posted by Pickupman66

For those of you having graphing issues, please shut down your Archon. Pull the USB drive and check it for errors with your PC. make sure it is not read only. then put it back in and fire the archon back up starting with the Power cord before connecting the buss to it. Please let me know what happens.

Thanks. I just finally got time to investigate mine last night and my particular issue was that the 'logs' folder was missing from the 'www' folder on the drive. I couldn't tell you why, but as soon as I recreated the 'logs' folder things are working again.

I'm not sure if the upgrade caused this or my own carelessness.

[Dolomiteclay]

Originally Posted by n2585722

Dolomiteclay, I left a message on the beta site for Eric about your issue.

This is what I just got from them. I guess in the computer programming world this is elementary but quite honestly this is two days in a row now that I have left early (much to the chagrin of my boss) with no results.

Notes for install

/cp /mnt/sda1/openwrt-nov12.bin /tmp
cd/tmp
mtd write openwrt-nov12.bin

restart

/etc/init.d/fstab restart


/mnt/sda1/load.sh

[n2585722]

Were there other instructions with this? That looks like linux commands. You would need to telnet it torun them. You may want to make sure before trying them. Hopefully you can phone him or have him phone you as to exactly how you need to do this.

[Pickupman66]

Yup. Linux commands to reinstall openwrt. Use these in telnet or ssh.

sent from my pixelated Nexus 6p

[Dolomiteclay]

Originally Posted by n2585722

Were there other instructions with this? That looks like linux commands. You would need to telnet it torun them. You may want to make sure before trying them. Hopefully you can phone him or have him phone you as to exactly how you need to do this.

That was the entire body of the message. May as well be Chinese.....

[n2585722]

What are you using to try and connect? You will need a way to telnet in on that device.

[Dolomiteclay]

To my archon? It's wired to my router.

[n2585722]

Are you using a computer, iPad or table to connect? You will need the software to comunicate with the Archon via telnet.

[Dolomiteclay]

I use a macbookpro

[Pickupman66]

I am not a Mac guy but what you will need to do is get a telnet client for your Mac. Open that up and tell that to the IP address of the archon. From there it will give you a command prompt where you will enter each line of the code that was sent to you.

I have done this particular code on my system before. basically what you were doing is copying the open wrt from your flash drive over to the internal systems of the arc on. Then in the second step you are having the archon flash that installer. After that you are restarting the system to boot into the freshly flashed system. Then you are starting another program to bring the archon completely up and running.

If you are not comfortable working with the back in with these kind of steps please let Eric know. He will get time with you to do a remote session and do these things for you.

sent from my pixelated Nexus 6p

[Dolomiteclay]

Originally Posted by Pickupman66

I am not a Mac guy but what you will need to do is get a telnet client for your Mac. Open that up and tell that to the IP address of the archon. From there it will give you a command prompt where you will enter each line of the code that was sent to you.

I have done this particular code on my system before. basically what you were doing is copying the open wrt from your flash drive over to the internal systems of the arc on. Then in the second step you are having the archon flash that installer. After that you are restarting the system to boot into the freshly flashed system. Then you are starting another program to bring the archon completely up and running.

If you are not comfortable working with the back in with these kind of steps please let Eric know. He will get time with you to do a remote session and do these things for you.

sent from my pixelated Nexus 6p

That seems easy enough. I basically just download telenet, enter the IP address of my archon and then enter the codes? I'll give it a shot. He didn't say so, but I'm assuming that I will need to download all of the files that he attached with the email to the flash drive prior to doing all of this?

[n2585722]

I would think that those are clean files for the flash drive. It may not be all the files on the drive. You may want to back up the drive to a folder on the computer before you copy the files to the drive.

[Dolomiteclay]

Originally Posted by n2585722

I would think that those are clean files for the flash drive. It may not be all the files on the drive. You may want to back up the drive to a folder on the computer before you copy the files to the drive.

Well I copied everything and it fired up. I have spent the last couple of hours calibrating my probes and setting all the timers up etc. I think that it is working pretty well.

Thank you very much for all your help. Apparently I didn't even have to download telenet since mac's already have the program installed.

[Pickupman66]

Good to hear this!

sent from my pixelated Nexus 6p

[Up2no6ood]

Originally Posted by Pickupman66

I have a writeup somewhere on another site with photos. Let me see if I can find it for you.

Logn and short, you need an arduino board to take analog signals from the archon and convert them into a reverse PWM. There is a guy on here who makes these boards and he made me one with a reverse programming from standard.

Let me see what I can dig back up and Ill PM it to you.

Thanks man! I gotta say this archon is bumming me out. I mean it has pwm outputs, switching it to reverse pwm should be a software thing....Does it feel like development is dead on this thing, or is it just me? Ive been a D.A guy for years but I'm not really impressed with the archon.

[n2585722]

Originally Posted by Up2no6ood

Thanks man! I gotta say this archon is bumming me out. I mean it has pwm outputs, switching it to reverse pwm should be a software thing....Does it feel like development is dead on this thing, or is it just me? Ive been a D.A guy for years but I'm not really impressed with the archon.

Have you tried making 100% as the minimum and say 50% as the maximum on the ramp function?

[Pickupman66]

Originally Posted by Up2no6ood

Thanks man! I gotta say this archon is bumming me out. I mean it has pwm outputs, switching it to reverse pwm should be a software thing....Does it feel like development is dead on this thing, or is it just me? Ive been a D.A guy for years but I'm not really impressed with the archon.

There is still development. I actually got a taste of some major changes that are cool. They are working on the reverse pwm. It's not as easy as you may think.

sent from my pixelated Nexus 6p

[Dolomiteclay]

Originally Posted by Dolomiteclay

Well I copied everything and it fired up. I have spent the last couple of hours calibrating my probes and setting all the timers up etc. I think that it is working pretty well.

Thank you very much for all your help. Apparently I didn't even have to download telenet since mac's already have the program installed.

My only problem now is that the graphs won't display anything and the main page will not display any of the outputs.

[Pickupman66]

Shut your system down and pull the drive. It is probably in a read-only mode so you will need to check it for errors. I am not sure how you do this on a Mac.

When you power it back up applied power with the power supply first before connecting your bus cables to it.

sent from my pixelated Nexus 6p

[Up2no6ood]

Originally Posted by Pickupman66

There is still development. I actually got a taste of some major changes that are cool. They are working on the reverse pwm. It's not as easy as you may think.

sent from my pixelated Nexus 6p

Is the website any better looking in the new beta?.....it feels so 1990's. I love the hardware side, its just the software that feels so clunky. I want to see more than one graph at a time, to be able to lock my switches out, to see alarms on the home screen, a mobile app that actually works.I want....I want....I want it to be more like apex fusion. There I said it

[Pickupman66]

Lol. Let me see if we can get alarms on the home screen. I do know if there is an alarm, top bar turns red. As for the multiple graphs, great idea.

If u want a different background, u can just swap the image.

As for an app, I'm not sure. It's very web based and Firefox works well on my phone.

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[Up2no6ood]

archon.jpg

This is What I have so far.

I just wish the webpage was more user friendly. Bigger easier to read values smaller less noticeable switches. I have a display mounted to my stand. I want to see things at a glimpse not have to inspect and scroll and switch tabs. I also would like to see some outputs but not have the ability to switch them on/off by accident

[Up2no6ood]

better pic