How does one reconnect a Hydros controller when traveling

[F1rstSalt24]

Hi All,

What is the process to follow to reconnect a Hydors controller when you are not at home?

One of the main reasons I invested in the Hydros controllers was to be able to act on anything that is going wrong when I'm not at home. The fact that one can't get the controller to reconnect with WIFI defeats the biggest reason for me spending the money on a controller setup.

Any advice will be appreciated!

Thanks!

 

[Danny]

Hi All,

What is the process to follow to reconnect a Hydors controller when you are not at home?

One of the main reasons I invested in the Hydros controllers was to be able to act on anything that is going wrong when I'm not at home. The fact that one can't get the controller to reconnect with WIFI defeats the biggest reason for me spending the money on a controller setup.

Any advice will be appreciated!

Thanks!

I have never had an issue with it reconnecting and I have 15 controllers in one of my collectives. I do have my own wifi router and do not use one supplied by my cable company. So if I have internet I can always check on the the controllers. I do also have a UPS for the router and cable modem along with battery backup on the larger Hydros collective. I do have another collective without battery backup with two controllers in it and have not had an issue with them reconnecting even after a power outage. You will get an alert from the cloud if any of the controllers loose communication with the cloud. I also have quite a few cameras so I can check them and if there is no connection with them it is not an issue with the Hydros and is probably a internet issue at the house. I do have one camera aimed at the tank so I can see if thing are on in the tank also.

 

[thom_smith]

If you have somebody watching the house, you can have them check the color or the wifi led or perimeter leds breathing. If disconnected, color will be pink, orange, red or yellow. Pink is unconfigured. Orange is a logical address issue; typically dhcp scope is full and controller didn't get address. Red is wifi disconnect. Most common. Yellow is a cloud disconnect somewhere outside your home; could be anywhere from your local ISP, regional carriers or witin the AWS cloud itself. More often than not, led is going to be red indicating a local wifi disconnect. Easiest way is to reboot your wifi router. I know you may say other devices are connected and I won't argue that fact however it's pretty much a surefire way to reconnect and saves time diagnosing. If nobody is watching the home but you have access to your wifi router remotely then I'd say it is pretty safe to blindly reboot.