Apex needs a 'Maintenance Mode'

don_chuwish · Oct 21, 2018

I was cleaning out my sump today, along with the equipment in it. The Apex pH and temp probes I moved to the inlet crash box to keep them wet. About an hour into my task I started getting alerts about temperature. So I disabled alarms - fine. But I still have that ugly dip in the charts:

Wouldn't it be nice to have a 'Maintenance Mode' that would disable alarms, pause logging, etc.? Perhaps with some clever code it could be implemented with one of the Feed modes, but I'd rather have a dedicated 'Maintenance Mode' button on the Dashboard. Am I alone here?

rkpetersen · Oct 21, 2018

People have requested features like this on the Neptune forums. And/or the ability to edit out sections of graphs after the fact.

don_chuwish · Oct 21, 2018

Guess I won't hold my breath then!

Dr. Reef · Oct 21, 2018

It's a good idea. They should have a freeze button. It should just freeze everything till you releasing it or by default time say in 1 hr or 2

doubleohwhatever · Oct 24, 2018

This has been a requested feature for a long time now. I've always wondered what would happen if you just unplugged the controller during maintenance but I've never remembered to try it.

Breadman03 · Oct 24, 2018

You could tie your alarm to a feed mode, just like a powerhead or skimmer. It wouldn't do anything for the picture of a dog's mouth, err, graph you posted, but it would ease silencing the alarm for a little bit and turn them back on reliably.

don_chuwish · Oct 25, 2018

Breadman03 said:
You could tie your alarm to a feed mode, just like a powerhead or skimmer. It wouldn't do anything for the picture of a dog's mouth, err, graph you posted, but it would ease silencing the alarm for a little bit and turn them back on reliably.

Yes there's probably a lot that could get close to what I'm looking for with some work on one of the four Feeds. I have three tweaked for various purposes already. I just think it should be a built in feature.