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Connect the Wi-Fi adapter. Wi-Fi Setup Who doesn’t like Wi-Fi? Plug in the USB power adapter...
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“director-########” where “########” by typing in the address above*, using your is the serial number of your Director. Director’s serial number in place of the #’s. You can find the serial number under the Director You can find the serial...
Select your wireless network from the list and enter the WEP/ Blinking Solid WPA password if needed. Searching for Wi-Fi networks Hosting a Wi-Fi network Connecting to a Wi-Fi network Connected to a Wi-Fi network Updating Director firmware...
Ethernet Setup You’re old school, I like that. Plug it in Using an Ethernet cable (not included), connect the Director to one of the Ethernet ports on your router. Plug in the power.
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Let’s Connect! myAI or Local connection options...
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Connect with myAI You’ll be prompted to Add a Director, type in a Name and the Serial # and click Add. Visit my.aquaillumination.com in your browser. If you haven’t created an account with myAI, do so now. Sign-in with your Email Address and...
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Connect Locally In your browser, connect to your Director by typing in the address above, using your Director’s serial number in place of the #’s. You can find the serial number under the Director on a sticker labeled “SERIAL #”.
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If you have multiple aquariums in your home, you’ll have the same number of tanks in your Director. It’s easy to add new tanks to your Director, By default you start out with one tank, you just click the...
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Before you can start controlling lights, you Hydra Hydra Nano need to add them to your tanks. Nano Vega Hydra Vega Adding Lights Discover Click on the Layout tab. You will see the blueprint where you can arrange your lights and view information about them. The available lights will populate in the tray on the right, to add them to your tank just drag and drop them onto the blueprint.
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Groups Double-clicking the light will bring up a dialog with information about the light, and will also make the light pulse so you can easily identify it over your tank. Inside your tanks you can choose to make When you have finished arranging your lights, be sure to click Save.
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Group Bar Adding lights to a Group When group-level control is available the Adding a light to a group is easy. In the Group Bar will appear at the bottom of the Layout tab, double-click the light you wish browser window. Here you can select a to change, in the dialog box select the group and change its settings accordingly.
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Control The Control tab is where you’ll spend most selected group and gives you manual of your time. Here you can set timers, control over the intensity of each LED preview your changes, create timer presets color. and control your lights manually. Switching back into Automatic mode will resume all timers for the selected group.
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Adding Points To add a point, click the Add (+) button and click an area on the chart to create a new point. Deleting Points Timers To delete a point, click the The timers give you a 24hr view of how Delete (X) button and click on your lights’...
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Copy Be sure to Save your changes so Copy timer points for the they get updated to your lights. selected LED color. Timer Preview Paste Use the play button to simulate Paste timer points onto the your timer ramps over a 30 selected LED color.
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Current Time Line Easy Setup The current time is shown on Inside the Presets menu there is an option the timer graph with a blue for Easy Setup. Easy Setup is a simple line. You can drag this line left way to setup your timers without all the or right to preview your timers fuss of setting each color individually.
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Lunar Cycle on the effects you want, set the simple This effect simulates the phases options and click save. The Director takes of the moon, if enabled, each it from there and handles everything else! night the moonlight intensity will...
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It will slowly maximum and minimum raise the intensity during this intensity value for each period to ensure your livestock is LED color. The Director will properly acclimated. automatically generate ramps based on the entered locations’ sunrise + sunset.
Wireless Channel This displays the current version of the If you are experiencing connectivity issues Director software. between the Director and your lights it may be a wireless interference issue. You Connection Settings can change the Wireless Channel of the This displays the Wi-Fi network name, IP Director to avoid this interference.
If a firmware update is available for your through some of the basic functions of Director a window will appear prompting the Director interface. You can exit the you to update. If you close out of this walkthrough at anytime by clicking the X window, the firmware update will be in the top right corner.
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