As the title states I am trying to run my fuge light every other day for 3 or 4 hours or so. It is very good at removing nutrients and I am trying to keep nitrates and phosphates in the tank. With the fish and feeding they are always low. I have an AI prime fuge. I think if I run the time I want it to be on in the AI app then use my apex to turn the outlet on and off every other day. But I am unsure on what the programming of the Apex should be. And if this would work. Thanks for the help!
Running fuge light every other day.
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you could use day of week programing. won't be quite the same as every other day but could get you close.
from apex manual
Day of Week
If DoW [SMTWTFS] Then [ON/OFF/PROFILE]
The Day of Week (DoW) lets you tweak your outlet program based on the day of the week. It’s a little different
from other statements in how it works. It has 7 placeholders, each represent a day of the week.
SMTWTFS
If you substitute any of the days with a hyphen, then that day evaluates as false
S-TW-FS Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday are True, Monday and Thursday are
false
If you happen to use the wrong letter for a day position, a hyphen will automatically be substituted.
Consider the following. In this example we want the outlet OFF on Saturday and Sunday, ON for all other days:
Set OFF
If DoW –MTWTF- Then ON
The above statement would evaluate to ON for every day except Sunday and Saturday.
Now consider this example where I want the lights in the tank to come on early on Saturday and Sunday by an
hour:
Fallback ON
Set OFF
If Time 07:00 to 08:00 Then ON
If DoW -MTWTF- Then OFF
If Time 08:00 to 19:30 Then ON
The logic above is as follows (disregard the Fallback and Set). Every day, if the time is 7 – 8am then turn the
register ON. But if the DoW is not Saturday or Sunday (i.e. Mon – Fri), then turn it back OFF. However, every day,
if the time is 8:00 – 19:30 turn the register ON.
The order of the above statements is critical. The DoW has to be between the two time statements. Put it any
other place and the statements will not evaluate as you wanted. Remember, the outlet is not turning ON/OFF
example if you want the light on monday wednesday friday 10pm 10am code would be something like this
default off
set on
if time 22:00 to 10:00 then on
if dow S-T-T-S then off (this tells outlet turn of on sunday tuesday thursday saturday the days substituted with - will still turn on)
from apex manual
Day of Week
If DoW [SMTWTFS] Then [ON/OFF/PROFILE]
The Day of Week (DoW) lets you tweak your outlet program based on the day of the week. It’s a little different
from other statements in how it works. It has 7 placeholders, each represent a day of the week.
SMTWTFS
If you substitute any of the days with a hyphen, then that day evaluates as false
S-TW-FS Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday are True, Monday and Thursday are
false
If you happen to use the wrong letter for a day position, a hyphen will automatically be substituted.
Consider the following. In this example we want the outlet OFF on Saturday and Sunday, ON for all other days:
Set OFF
If DoW –MTWTF- Then ON
The above statement would evaluate to ON for every day except Sunday and Saturday.
Now consider this example where I want the lights in the tank to come on early on Saturday and Sunday by an
hour:
Fallback ON
Set OFF
If Time 07:00 to 08:00 Then ON
If DoW -MTWTF- Then OFF
If Time 08:00 to 19:30 Then ON
The logic above is as follows (disregard the Fallback and Set). Every day, if the time is 7 – 8am then turn the
register ON. But if the DoW is not Saturday or Sunday (i.e. Mon – Fri), then turn it back OFF. However, every day,
if the time is 8:00 – 19:30 turn the register ON.
The order of the above statements is critical. The DoW has to be between the two time statements. Put it any
other place and the statements will not evaluate as you wanted. Remember, the outlet is not turning ON/OFF
example if you want the light on monday wednesday friday 10pm 10am code would be something like this
default off
set on
if time 22:00 to 10:00 then on
if dow S-T-T-S then off (this tells outlet turn of on sunday tuesday thursday saturday the days substituted with - will still turn on)
