Help With Apex Controller

[brick-brothers]

Well I woke up this morning to see that the controller reset itself ( Only 3hrs Of sleep). All the effort and time I put in changing the outlet names and programing them went down the drain. The worst part of it is I had to work today so i couldnt reprogram back

 

[reefoman]

Well I woke up this morning to see that the controller reset itself ( Only 3hrs Of sleep). All the effort and time I put in changing the outlet names and programing them went down the drain. The worst part of it is I had to work today so i couldnt reprogram back

After any reprogramming simply upload your new settings to your PC that gonna save your time I told you... You forgot about that...

Regards,
mark


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[brick-brothers]

I know, I was super tired. But does that happen often with these controllers?

 

[reefoman]

I know, I was super tired. But does that happen often with these controllers?

Never happen to me except once when was storm lighting killed my unit but Eugenie from Apex is the men he fix it in about one week...
After reinstallation I simply downloaded my stored settings in few seconds...


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[brick-brothers]

yea I'm going to redo it and save the settings.

 

[reefoman]

And don't forget about good surge protector... It's a must

Regards,
mark


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[brick-brothers]

I didnt think about plugging a surge protector to the eb8

And don't forget about good surge protector... It's a must

Regards,
mark


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[reefoman]

I didnt think about plugging a surge protector to the eb8

EB8 has to be plugged in to the surge protector other way some day you can see blank display, trust me you dont want

Regards,
mark


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[pdnyc69]

+1

eb8 has to be plugged in to the surge protector other way some day you can see blank display, trust me you dont want

regards,
mark


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[brick-brothers]

I think that might of happen last night. Well this morning. So tell me, with the serge protector, will the apex reset itself while plug up to the protector if something was to happen?


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[reefoman]

I think that might of happen last night. Well this morning. So tell me, with the serge protector, will the apex reset itself while plug up to the protector if something was to happen?


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Surge protector (surge suppressor) is designed to protect your Apex from voltage spikes. With that protection your Apex should not reset any data but only loose power for some short time your controller has installed battery to hold memory. Without surge protector you can loose some fuse on the board or with bad luck even whole device.

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mark


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[ming]

My Apex retains all the programming/settings when I unplug it and plug it back in

 

[reefoman]

My Apex retains all the programming/settings when I unplug it and plug it back in

How old it is? probably the battery is death...


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[ming]

How old it is? probably the battery is death...


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You probably mis-read my post.
I think the programming/settings is saved to memory, similar to a SD card which doesn't need power, not like RAM which loses everything when it loses power.
I'm not quite sure there is a battery in there because the date/time resets when it loses power, but it'll re-update once its connected to the internet as it syncs the time/date from online. This solves the clock issue they had in previous controllers which was off by a few seconds which adds up to minutes or more per year

 

[reefoman]

You probably mis-read my post.
I think the programming/settings is saved to memory, similar to a SD card which doesn't need power, not like RAM which loses everything when it loses power.
I'm not quite sure there is a battery in there because the date/time resets when it loses power, but it'll re-update once its connected to the internet as it syncs the time/date from online. This solves the clock issue they had in previous controllers which was off by a few seconds which adds up to minutes or more per year

Well in my unit is battery for sure some people suggest to disconnect (unsoldering) battery from the board for permanent reset when i got back home and the display in my Apex was blank. I did it but doesn't help that's why I sent my unit back to Apex for fixing. You have option to synchronize time or not I don't like to synchronize time with my PC. I just disconnected my apex two times for 15 minutes and everything working good including clock. I have to find out why some units loosing whole data when power is disconnected even for few seconds.



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[brick-brothers]

ok I finally reprogram the apex and save it on my pc :irked: Now i just need help setting up my email alerts. Also how do i can the screen name and password at the login screen?

 

[brick-brothers]

Im still having trouble setting the network for it. I'm have a linksys wireless router. who knows how to do it? I made the dyndns email but I'm still having trouble receiving email alerts.

 

[reefoman]

Im still having trouble setting the network for it. I'm have a linksys wireless router. who knows how to do it? I made the dyndns email but I'm still having trouble receiving email alerts.

Since you created dyndns... Print in web browser yourname.dyndns-web.com and check if you are able to login to your apex.
Lmk


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[brick-brothers]

didnt work, where would i put the dyndns at on the apex screen?

 

[brick-brothers]

also when I put http://apex/ in the web broswer, i get Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage. I was working for me yesterday, now its not