10-10-2021, 06:31 PM
Hey albinochicken89, good to hear.
You bet me on those, soon when you click the DB9 on configure ports they will be available as a function and the ports will appear like the power bar but yeah not today. We can do it though.
Did you connect the pca9685 and get the popup asking what it was? If not do that and select pca9685.
Then it will present a table with the 16 pins where you can select each pin function, can only be outputs on pca9685 so the extensions you want to plug in the DB9's otherwise you can't use the sensor ports. You'll want to move the power bars to it so assign the pins as AC outlets and the power bar should work on it.
Now you can plug the extensions into the DB9's but this time on the "Configure Ports" screen click the "Advanced" option and do basically the same thing you did with reef-pi, find the GPIO numbers and assign how you like. You'll notice you can't select any sensor options on those pins, that's sometime I forgot to change so you'll only be able to use the DC ports today, if you can navigate the database I can tell you what to change, it's easy if you can get in the database. Either way I'll make that change for tomorrow and send an update as I would love to try it, if you post your service ID from the system settings page I'll fire one off tomorrow, it's a meaningless number so it's safe to post. If you enable Auto Update you'll see when the update is ready next to the clock.
You bet me on those, soon when you click the DB9 on configure ports they will be available as a function and the ports will appear like the power bar but yeah not today. We can do it though.
Did you connect the pca9685 and get the popup asking what it was? If not do that and select pca9685.
Then it will present a table with the 16 pins where you can select each pin function, can only be outputs on pca9685 so the extensions you want to plug in the DB9's otherwise you can't use the sensor ports. You'll want to move the power bars to it so assign the pins as AC outlets and the power bar should work on it.
Now you can plug the extensions into the DB9's but this time on the "Configure Ports" screen click the "Advanced" option and do basically the same thing you did with reef-pi, find the GPIO numbers and assign how you like. You'll notice you can't select any sensor options on those pins, that's sometime I forgot to change so you'll only be able to use the DC ports today, if you can navigate the database I can tell you what to change, it's easy if you can get in the database. Either way I'll make that change for tomorrow and send an update as I would love to try it, if you post your service ID from the system settings page I'll fire one off tomorrow, it's a meaningless number so it's safe to post. If you enable Auto Update you'll see when the update is ready next to the clock.
