An Apex can be a great tool, but definitely not a necessity. Its mostly for monitoring your system parameters. There are some seasoned Apex users that can do some Crazy cool things with them, That is not me. I just use it for basic functions.
Thankz. That what i feels the same... until now come across this unit almost brand new..you can't. An apex is just a "fancy" timer. ex. if you are old school and use a bunch of timers to turn on things like lights and whatever else. You can now eliminate those and plug them into the apex power bar. The apex will not dose for you unless you buy their DOS unit. Your Radions will turn on/off through Mobius.. So Apex will NOT help there either. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Exactly... i feel we don't need to, most Ecotech gear is core for reef tank in my opinion
Alright, I can dig that, well maybe except the lights thing has anyone done any studies to show how much your tank temp raises when your lights are on? I mean I remember back in MH days and the effect was maybe 2 degrees, I can't imagine LEDs get anywhere close to that. But that said l will say that if you have the sense of mind to think of all those problems in the first place, why would you even use Ecotech gear in the first place? I mean you get an Apex because you want all this remote connectivity then why set yourself up for failure by getting gear that isn't remotely connectable.
It’s a little confusing and really requires most of the setup to be done on a pc but it’s got some nice potential. Like I’m using it to dim my light bars I got from aliexpress. I need to work on it more before I could do a gold write up on it, but to answer your question here’s my dashboard. Nothing is plugged into the pH bnc right now. There’s a chart above but I haven’t set it upI'd be really interested in seeing someone start a GHL thread, I'm curious how things compare to an Apex, I mean I've seen hardware side of things compared before but for a vast majority of people it's really all about the user interface which really catapulted the Apex into the lime light compared to the predecessors like the Reefkeeper or Aquacontroller (that a LOT of marketing put out there), and honestly I've never really seen a GHL setup, i.e popping open your phone to see everything, etc. not sure if it even can do that.
And since Neptune isn't likely to sponsor me with free gear for any future tank builds of mine with hardware (mostly because I don't have much social media presence) , I like to keep my mind open about what options are out there.
With the p4 you do do not need PC. All can be done from GHL central app on phone or pc..
Yeah I agree, seems like at the very least could have been made using a bluetooth module to communicate, but the consensus is a pissing match between Ecotech and Neptune, and who knows who is doing the peeing.
I looked into it more, the things I couldn’t set up are just a limitation of the pmini but I saw a R2R thread of Vinny saying it’s on the roadmap to add in a software update. But for now no temp charts, pretty lame
Correct, the none mini p4 is cloud based setup already. The mini is coming on the road map as you said. I wish they have done it all at once..