Charlie the Reefer
Well-Known Member
Hello everyone,
I have 4 MP40s and 4 G6 Radions. All equipment is under 3 months old. Since setting everything up, fighting with the mobius app has just been a constant uphill battle.
I feel like the hardware is good on the Ecotech stuff. But any time you change the lighting/flow schedule you don't know if it's going to take you 5 minutes or literally one hour. Equipment randomly disconnects, settings reset or decide to change themselves, and many times the app won't even recognize a device. It would be one thing if this issue was occurring for one piece of equipment, but I feel this is unfortunately the common user experience with Ecotech stuff.
Specifically, I'm dealing with an issue currently where the lights decide to go off schedule, or blast the corals at full intensity at say 11PM, or just shut off randomly mid day. Same sort of thing with the MP40s. I have had to factory reset each piece of equipment at least once. There is one light I've had to factory reset maybe 7+ times because it just goes out of synch/loses connection so often. As a funny aside - at Aquashella in Illinois this year one of the biggest frag vendor had Radions and he was constantly screwing with them the whole show.
I also know I am not the only one having these issues, due to the crappy app reviews on the apple store and elsewhere...
To me it's sort of ironic that some of the most "tricked out" equipment in my tank has given me the most issues. Comparing this stuff to lets say my cheap DC pump I got off amazon, heater setup, or Kessil lights... I don't have to worry about any of that crap and constantly finnick with it. Or compare the Ecotech crap with Neptune Fusion. I never have any issues talking to my DOS, Trident, or really anything in Fusion. It's extremely reliable. I just wish that same standard/seamless experience applied with the Ecotech stuff. Probably a factor is that Neptune gives you the option to hard wire everything together. I'm guessing that's a huge deal.
So I guess this post was sort of a "warning", part "review", and part "does anyone have any tips to fix this crap and make it operate better?". I'm using an Iphone 14 on a 5G connection to communicate. I've also tried connecting to my home Wifi, which is a 1200 mbps connection.
Tldr; if you are debating buying ecotech lights/powerheads, be weary.
I have 4 MP40s and 4 G6 Radions. All equipment is under 3 months old. Since setting everything up, fighting with the mobius app has just been a constant uphill battle.
I feel like the hardware is good on the Ecotech stuff. But any time you change the lighting/flow schedule you don't know if it's going to take you 5 minutes or literally one hour. Equipment randomly disconnects, settings reset or decide to change themselves, and many times the app won't even recognize a device. It would be one thing if this issue was occurring for one piece of equipment, but I feel this is unfortunately the common user experience with Ecotech stuff.
Specifically, I'm dealing with an issue currently where the lights decide to go off schedule, or blast the corals at full intensity at say 11PM, or just shut off randomly mid day. Same sort of thing with the MP40s. I have had to factory reset each piece of equipment at least once. There is one light I've had to factory reset maybe 7+ times because it just goes out of synch/loses connection so often. As a funny aside - at Aquashella in Illinois this year one of the biggest frag vendor had Radions and he was constantly screwing with them the whole show.
I also know I am not the only one having these issues, due to the crappy app reviews on the apple store and elsewhere...
To me it's sort of ironic that some of the most "tricked out" equipment in my tank has given me the most issues. Comparing this stuff to lets say my cheap DC pump I got off amazon, heater setup, or Kessil lights... I don't have to worry about any of that crap and constantly finnick with it. Or compare the Ecotech crap with Neptune Fusion. I never have any issues talking to my DOS, Trident, or really anything in Fusion. It's extremely reliable. I just wish that same standard/seamless experience applied with the Ecotech stuff. Probably a factor is that Neptune gives you the option to hard wire everything together. I'm guessing that's a huge deal.
So I guess this post was sort of a "warning", part "review", and part "does anyone have any tips to fix this crap and make it operate better?". I'm using an Iphone 14 on a 5G connection to communicate. I've also tried connecting to my home Wifi, which is a 1200 mbps connection.
Tldr; if you are debating buying ecotech lights/powerheads, be weary.
