Well, I guess that is my problem then! I need to connect to the MPS devices by both USB
and aquabus if I want to use them in alarms, controllers, etc. Yes, I know that technically an MPS device doesn't have to stay connected via USB once the device is configured, but what if I want to reconfigure or tweak the device? I'd have to reconnect USB.
I wish that one bus could handle all of these things. I'd guess the reason USB alone isn't enough is that Aquasuite or aquaservice doesn't pass MPS data received over USB down to the aquero for use in the controllers and alarms. What I'm not sure is why all of the configuration data currently set up via USB couldn't have been set up via Aquabus - other than it would have been more work because I'm guessing that currently, aquabus is just providing power and a very basic protocol that supplies the unscaled value and maybe the address of the MPS device it came from. To do all of the device configuration stuff, the Aquabus would have needed to go from a very simple protocol to something a significantly more complex. Ha, okay, enough of my wild speculation.
Anyway, when I decided to go with the USB hook-up I kind of assumed that connecting via aquabus supplied a true subset of the functionality a USB connection gave.That assumption was wrong.
Thanks for straightening this out, Sebastian.I'll try hooking aquabus back up tomorrow and verify it fixed my problem.