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Wifi with the arduino is frustrating at best. If you HAVE to use wifi, my advice would be to interface to a rasberry pi and use a wifi dongle. Or, if you're ready for the next level of complexity, just scrap the arduino all together and use the raspi for everything.

I had a wifi repeater, and it was just painful. I was hoping wifi had come forward a bit since then.

My wife is currently playing yoshi's island on my raspberry pie atm, I don't like my chances of getting it way from her.

Hi Colum

I would and have run a conduit with a cat6 cable and be done with messing around. I use an outside wireless router here sitting on my TV antenna. Good coverage for a few houses each side but secure. I still would not bother with it for the AP. Much simpler.

Wow that's really something.

My AVR-based controller is still going strong (See the 'solar' link in my sig) about the only thing I'd say about yours is to ensure that you enable the watchdog to make it reset if the code somehow gets confused.

Also I found that some buttons are really useful to do things like turn the pumps on full (manual mode).

I bought a wifi module for mine but never got around to wiring it in, you're going down the right path by using an arduino base instead of my bare AVR platform.

Good luck with it all, I hope it works as good as it looks!

The hardware watchdog on the arduino is not exactly straight forward and the mega2560 even less so.

I did enable it at one point but the maximum timeout is 8 seconds and the ethernet library blocks for like 20 seconds when you unplug the cable so I ditched it. I just rely on writing solid code and when things go wrong, the Grovestreams "no activity event" will send me an email alert.

Chiumanfu

Outstanding work!!

Totally bowled me over, I have tried to download the ZIP file, unfortunately takes me to Drop box with a 404 error

Would really appreciate a link to the software or a heck on the link

I look forward to building this ans seeing it work. Love the graph feature,

AWESOME

Kind Regards


Dean

Very nice setup. Could you share your arduino code?

you can upload zip files to the forum as attachments

A demand feeder, something to control topup water and perhaps something to control one of those pumps that squeeze a plastic tube to deliver tiny amounts of acid. I think they are used in dialysis machines.

Oh and a tiny pump design

I would be grateful if someone could let me know if they are having issues downloading the ZIP File, keep geting errors, I have clicked , right clicked and struggling TBH

Like a child before Xmas I would like to be able to open this code asap

Any help appreciated

Thank you

Ps I have read every post and looked for another link

The download link is offline.

Sorry, try this one.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/668 ... umanfu.zip

There is still some details to wrap up with but mostly it is complete.

Search ebay for dosing pumps. The aquarium guys use them all the time.

Thanks for the code, that's a lot of libraries to find and download

thanks