yeah I never really used the graphs and all that on my last Apex, more concerned just for the automation and monitoring, plus I like the idea of easily tying the hydros in with another aquarium around the corner if I put it on a hydros controller as well
I have very few wifi drop offs normally. They will do it if I reset a controller or update the firmware which also will do it. They do reconnect for me within a couple of minutes when I do reset a controller. I do not use them for ATO, AWC or dosing. I also don't use them to refill my DI storage or mix tank storage. Those are all on drive ports. I have used them to control heaters but they also have a backup thermostat. I would not control my heaters without a backup regardless of which controller was in use. I have also controlled my return pump, skimmer pump and various other devices. I now have most of that on a XP8 I was beta testing the last few months. Below is screenshots of my alerts. They go back to Wednesday. Wednesday there were a lot of internet outages which are the cause of most of the alerts that day some of the others were when I powered down a couple of controllers. Sine the iputs were missing for those controllers I got alerts for that but it was when I was messing with it. The only alerts for wifi strips are the ones for 42g 1 and 110g 1. I have tow others that did not alert. I was updating firmware both times that happened. The one that are "Device has been offline for too long" and "Device connected to the cloud" are controllers, but the cause in this case was loosing the internet. That is a common occurrence at my house. Since I was messing with things there is about one of any alert you might get. The cryptic name are mine and not from Hydros.
Not a Beta tester if you are referring to me. As an early adopter I was given the chance to buy one early. I don’t receive anything for free or have the opportunity to test equipment.
An X3 is what you want. That or an X4 but monitoring with an X3 would get you pH, temp and something else.
Yup..that is what I was looking at. Still annoys me that I am at 300 just to monitor PH..but I dont see other options.
Yes I am a beta tester. I do not get paid by Coralvue for doing it. So I am not an employee and never have been for them. I was a beta tester for Digital Aquatics when they were around also. I got the Hydros about mid November 2020. I liked it form the start. It was similar to the Digital Aquatics with the built in outputs for different devices but that is about as close as it got. I didn't become a beta tester until February or March of last year for them. I do like the Hydros a lot better than the Digital Aquatics controllers. The Digital Aquatics controllers were solid and reliable, but now there are not a lot of ways to expand them. I originally got the Hydros to control things in the garage. So it was quite a while till I added any of the Hydros devices at the tank? I now have an X3, XS and XP8 at the tank. I got the controller advisor banner on here for my expertise with the Digital Aquatics platform. I still have the RKE and Archon and do help with questions about that platform as well.
Have you submitted a support ticket for this. I did have that happen a couple of times but it has been a while, but I have been on beta firmware for a while now. Here is a link https://support.coralvue.com/submit_ticket
Not that my opinion is worth anything, I think you’d be happy with your experience even at $300.
