FYI - Profilux 4 has no RJ45 contact for wired ethernet - only WiFiI'll run a wired ethernet to it so I don't need to worrie about drop out
Sincerely Lasse
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FYI - Profilux 4 has no RJ45 contact for wired ethernet - only WiFiI'll run a wired ethernet to it so I don't need to worrie about drop out
You are correctFYI - Profilux 4 has no RJ45 contact for wired ethernet - only WiFi
Sincerely Lasse
The RJ45 ports at all modern GHL devices have nothing to do with ethernet (excluding Profilux 3, Doser 2 and 2,1 Stand Alone that have own wired ethernet connections, Bold - if you should do a Doser 2.x SA unit to talk to a profilux computer you must change this SA to be a slave unit. However if you make a SA doser to a slave - you can´t use the ethernet port).Is I can daisy chain them all together as 1 system and I guess I assumed that I could use the rj45 port on the 2.1 doser to give internet to the entire system
Well that's kinda of a huge oversight on their partThe RJ45 ports at all modern GHL devices have nothing to do with ethernet (excluding Profilux 3, Doser 2 and 2,1 Stand Alone that have own wired ethernet connections, Bold - if you should do a Doser 2.x SA unit to talk to a profilux computer you must change this SA to be a slave unit. However if you make a SA doser to a slave - you can´t use the ethernet port).
GHL use these standard ports for their own communication protocol - PAB. If you connect them to ethernet - you will be in trouble for sure. Once again - these ports PAB ports - even if they are RJ45 have nothing to do with ethernet. They are for GHL own communication protocol. If you connect PAB ports to ethernet - you can damage the equipment and even your own wired Ethernet. Trust me - I spent a whole day to figure out why our router got totally crazy - was on my way to buy a new router when I ask my son when the trouble started. Directly after I plug in that cable he said showing me a connection between Profilux PAB and ethernet.
Sincerely Lasse
Sry to bother you againThe RJ45 ports at all modern GHL devices have nothing to do with ethernet (excluding Profilux 3, Doser 2 and 2,1 Stand Alone that have own wired ethernet connections, Bold - if you should do a Doser 2.x SA unit to talk to a profilux computer you must change this SA to be a slave unit. However if you make a SA doser to a slave - you can´t use the ethernet port).
GHL use these standard ports for their own communication protocol - PAB. If you connect them to ethernet - you will be in trouble for sure. Once again - these ports PAB ports - even if they are RJ45 have nothing to do with ethernet. They are for GHL own communication protocol. If you connect PAB ports to ethernet - you can damage the equipment and even your own wired Ethernet. Trust me - I spent a whole day to figure out why our router got totally crazy - was on my way to buy a new router when I ask my son when the trouble started. Directly after I plug in that cable he said showing me a connection between Profilux PAB and ethernet.
Sincerely Lasse
Thank you for this I was about ready to go ghlWith Profilux 4 and latest FW for controller and WiFi chip - I have had no connection problems at all for several years. It not like mesh systems - I run it on a dedicated 2.4 GHz guest network from my WiFi (ASUS Blue Cave).
It is possible to run it through the USB connection and the GCC program but you will not have access to some of the features in the cloud - like the new better graphs and the logbook.
You can use a P4 as your brain in the system and connect alla other devices to this brain - but if so - you need to rely - as many of us - to the WiFi connection if you want cloud connection and connection outside your own network.
Or if you can´t live with a WiFi connection - you can connect both a KH director, ION director and up to 3 four head doser 2.x slave units to one Doser 2.x stand alone with possibilities both for WiFi and hard wire after your own chose. You will have up to 16 dose heads in this case.
Here is a setup with one Doser 2.1 SA, 1 doser 2.1 Slave, a KH director and an ION director and it is hard wired into ethernet. (its from my job)
At home - I have a very automated system with a lot of functions for a P4 - everything managed by a P4 and WiFi. I do not know anything about different competitors but I would personally never switch out my system
Sincerely Lasse
Some facts - the first Profilux computer was introduced around 1998 - the apex classic 2009 ( the same year i bought my first Profilux 2 computer). In the same year GHL introduce Profilux 3 It was backwards compatible with all equipment from P2 but introduce a new communication BUS that make all new equipment's not compatible with P2. P4 was introduced 2016 (same year as the newest Apex). Total backwards compatible and - till now at least - all new equipment's are compatible with both P3.x and P4. However the old power bars (and doser 1) with RJ12 connections is not compatible with P4E (have no S-ports)There are alot more long term apex users then ghl
One issue with the trident is that you can’t test just one element. You have to test all three. And I believe you have to test a minimum of 4 times. You can’t do one a day do you really need to test 4 times? Yes ghl has a alk tester and now the ion but I don’t have to test 4 times. I can test once a week if I wanted to. I’m not saying apex is bad. It’s a great system. You get more with ghl once you understand stand it. The probes respond so much better fast and more accurate than apex. Someone did a video doing test side by side can’t remember the name of it. I had my eyes on an apex too. That is until I saw how a ghl worked at my lfs and he also has an apex system. But only one tank on the apex. The rest of the shop is controlled by ghl.I really really do want the best system I was
100 percent going ghl over apex untill I found out that you can not by default connect it to the internet via a hardwire
Remote control is the entire reason I'm buying the system otherwise I'd just do it myself by hand
I may not even let the trident control dosing idk I may manually control it and adjust based on reading from trident and manual tests when home
This is a bug in the GHL software. They have yet to fix it after many many years. It is best to run the Profllux using a wired connection. I would even go so far as to say get an external wireless access point and run an ethernet cable straight into the controller, and use the access point to connect wirelessly. Yes this is an added expense, but this should solve your issue without having to redo everything. You will not get the wireless to work until they solve the bug in their wireless software.My Profilux looses WiFi connectivity about once a month (like at the moment) and I can no longer access it remotely. When this happens, the WiFi router is running fine (all other equipment in the house is connecting fine, phones, tablets, PCs, the TV etc etc).
The router is about 4 meters from the Profilux so that's not the issue, especially as it has no connectivity problem the rest of the time. The light to the right of the word WiFi on the front of the Profilux is a solid green. The word "MyGhl" on the LED screen is blinking on and off.
I ping the myghl.com server and it is up and responding.
Every time this happens, the only way to reestablish connectivity is to turn the Profilux off and then back on again. I hate doing this because of course it shuts down the whole tank while it is doing this.
I don't find this normal at all. So I have two questions:
1. Is there anyway to "reset" the WiFi on the Profilux without turning the whole unit off and then on again?
2. Why would this be happening in the first place?
Inputs welcome!
Just to add: when this happens I can't connect to the Profilux locally using WiFi either... I have to use the USB connector to connect. And when I do this, all the WiFi parameters are correct, nothing has changed...