Hi All -

I recently added an MPS flow sensor to my loop, replacing a mechanical flow sensor I previously had. However, I'm unable to find a way to use the new device's flow rate measurement in Aquasuite's power dissipation calculations.

When setting up a power measurement in Aquasuite (Aquero 5 page -> Controller's page -> Power Measurement section), the only flow rates that can be assigned to the rate part of the dissipation calculation are the ones that are read from the Aquero's two dedicated flow rate inputs (or the one dedicated input and the one that's switchable between fan 1 and a flow meter). The MPS device's flow measurements come into the aquero in a different way - via USB or aquabus - and I don't see a way to select them for use in the calculation.

I'm guessing it's not possible to do so, but does anyone know of a way to do this? Thanks!

Thanks for the response and apologies for my long delay.

Yes, in the screen shot you posted, I see you have more than just the Flow 1 and 2 devices. For some reason though, I don't get that. I only see Flow 1 and 2 - the MPS flow sensor doesn't show up.

Basically, as far as I can tell, the only place I have access to the MPS data is either on the MPS's own tab, or on an overview page through an object. MPS appears nowhere under my Aquereo tab, which means I can't use the data for controllers, alarms, etc, which is not good. The only thing my MPS units (I have a fill sensor too) are good for at this point is data display.

Hmmm... the MPS units are connected via USB only. They don't need to have Aquabus connected to show up on the Aquero tab, do they?

Glad to see I'm not the only one. Have the aquacomputer guys said anything about this on the forums? Guess I'll put a support ticket in. I'll let you know what I hear.

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.






Thanks for straightening this out, Sebastian.I'll try hooking aquabus back up tomorrow and verify it fixed my problem.