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Aquacomputer Aquabus vs USB Connection

Bytales

Full Member

Aquacomputer Aquabus vs USB Connection

Wednesday, June 29th 2016, 3:24pm

I have a short question:
Since i can have all my peripherals connected permanently to USB, do i still need to hook up an Aquabuss connection to the Aquaero ? Or are the USB connections all that one needs to control the devices ?

I have USB Hubs set up inside the PC that allows me to hook up everthing though USB

1)Front USB 2.0 Hub
2)Back USB 3.0 Hubs

Shoggy

Sven - Admin

Wednesday, June 29th 2016, 3:47pm

The aquabus connection is required if you want to have the devices to communicate with each other.

For example if you use an aquaero and a mps flow sensor it is highly recommend to connect them so that you can use the sensor values in the aquaero to set up an alarm.

Bytales

Full Member

Wednesday, June 29th 2016, 4:54pm

Over USB this cannot be done ?

Shoggy

Sven - Admin

Thursday, June 30th 2016, 8:26am

No, the exchange of data between devices requires the aquabus.

Bytales

Full Member

Thursday, June 30th 2016, 10:49am

So that means im going to wire the Aquabus also. Luckily for me there's the new PWM splitter, and i Need exactly 9 Connections. 8 for the devices i have and 1 for daisy chaining the Poweradjusts.
Untill now i have, or was going to use, WAGO connectors, which do the exact same Thing, they require more space, as a disadvantage.
Now i can use the PWM splitter.

Thanks for the INFO.
Why couldnt the inter-device communication be done through USB ?, i believe it wouldnt have been so hard to implement this, or ?

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Bytales" (Jun 30th 2016, 10:51am)

Shoggy

Sven - Admin

Thursday, June 30th 2016, 1:04pm

These devices run autonomously and can not share data if no operating system is running. Even if we limit it to the state were an operating system must be running it would still require some fall back mechanisms if the system crashes etc. So in the end it is much more complicated than just sending a value from A to B ;)

Bytales

Full Member

Thursday, June 30th 2016, 1:41pm

And this way the Aquabus allows this permanent Connection between devices without an operating System needing to be on, as Long as they got power. Is that the reasoning beneath the creating of the Aquabus ?
If so, then im glad you made this PWM Splitter cause im going to Need a few of those as well.

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