poolsean sent me this..the sodium hypochlorite is on scented household bleach in bottle..giddyup!

You can use any type of shock with the AutoPilot. However, there are "recommendations" depending on your current water chemistry conditions:
If your Calcium Hardness is already high, you do not want to use Calcium Hypochlorite If your Cyanuric Acid is already high, you do not want to use granular or tabletized Tri-chlor, or granular Dichlor as both contain cyanuric acid.
If your pH is low, you do not want to use the above either, as both are rather low in pH.

Sodium Hypochlorite is always safe to use.
Potassium Monopersulfate, non-chlorine shock, is an oxidizer that temporarily gives you a high chlorine level, when tested, but quickly dissapates to a normal chlorine level within...15 minutes. This is mostly safe to use for shocking combined chlorine, but not for algae.

Avoid using any SODIUM BROMIDE based algaecides. These are "specialty" algaecides, mostly with MUSTARD or YELLOW in the name. Sodium Bromide will cause problems with maintaining a chlorine residual if used.
Neither of these shocks will harm the AutoPilot cell.

Hope this helps.
Sean