How To Install A Bitfenix Recon Set Up Your Router To Use It And Allow Internet Access Without Disabling The Firewall

The unit comes with 5 fan channels, which are linked to 5 temperature channels. The cables and probes are labelled 1-5 to correspond to the 5 channels on the control interface. So go ahead and bolt the unit in, plug the fans in to their channels, and attach the temperature probes using the provided tape. Plug the middle USB connection into an available USB header on your motherboard, then connect the molex power to your power supply.

Alright now boot into your OS and install the device drivers from here:

http://bitfenix.com/global/en/products/accessories/recon#support

and start the service from the icon. Please right click the file and click "Run as Administrator".

You should see this in your browser:



If you have come this far and it still does not work, you have to run the install file as the REAL administrator (in windows 7) by right clicking and clicking "Run as Administrator":

1. Open start menu.
2. Type in 3. Right click and click "Run as Administrator"
4. Type the following command: 5. The following text should appear in the following line:


6. Log out of the current account, and you should see the REAL Administrator account. Log into it.
7. Uninstall all instances of Recon, and re-install by right clicking and clicking "Run as Administrator"
8. Reboot, and log into the machine again using your own account. The Web Browser should work now.

Deactivate the administrator account by going back to CMD in administrator mode, and type: _____

Now, if you try to access this from anywhere else right now it won't work, because your host PC, and Router, both need to be configured. So, go to CMD and type /ipconfig (press windows+r and type CMD)

The number you are looking for is your default gateway, or your router's IP, shown here:



go to your browser and type this number into the address bar. If prompted for a password enter it.

The following steps vary slightly depending on your router, I will be showing a linksys router, this process is called port forwarding, and can be googled as such "How to forward ports on a XY router."

In the router, go to Applications and Gaming:



Then you should see a screen like this:



For Application enter "Recon" or whatever will remind you that that port is designated for your fan controller. For the start and end put "9980" which is the port the recon uses. I do not believe this is changeable. Leave protocol on both. For the box for Ip address, you want to go back to that CMD screen and find your local or internal IP, shown here:



Click enable, and then save. Close CMD and your browser.

Next you are going to want to set the service to start automatically. To do this go to the start menu-- control panel-- Administrative Tools-- Services. Scroll through the list until you find "Fan Controller." Right click it and hit properties. Change the startup type to automatic so the service starts with windows, as shown:



Then, the final step, either disable windows firewall, which is way too sketchy for my liking, or allow the service access through it.

Go to control panel, windows firewall, and hit allow a program or feature through Windows Firewall:



Hit allow another program...



Browse to the location the recon installs to (Default is C:\Program Files (x86)\Recon\

Select Recon, and hit open. Repeat this for fancontroller_service and fancontroller_daemon.

Scan through the list of allowed programs for these 3 things (Recon now shows up as Recon Service) and then check off all 3 boxes in each line:



Hit OK.

It should now work. If you are using wireless and have a lancard, disable it. Go to whatsmyip.org get your external IP, copy that into a window of your browser, add :9980 to the end, and connect to your recon. Even if you are doing this on your host rig, it still won't work if its not done correctly, so, if you can do it through your external IP there, you can do it anywhere.

Congratulations on installing your Recon, have fun and be sure to comment.