I have a rather silly problem, I have spun up my frag tank again and this time spent the time and money to put in hard plumbing and a Apex EL. The problem i run into is this now makes my home a multiple Apex home, and monitoring more than one at a time is kind of a pain in the butt.
So i decided to build my own solution, I picked up a raspberry pi, 7 inch touchscreen, and loaded in Node-Red with Dashboard UI and started parsing the the local XML. Right now I only have read-only access, but I'm adding authentication to do Feed Modes and Maintenance modes. The goal of this whole project is allow my lady or house sitter the ability to quickly feed the tank or know if the ATO jugs need to be replaced.
I have also added other sensors that aren't part of the Apex, like outside temperatures. I'm also adding the home HVAC target temp as well.
What do you guys think?
So i decided to build my own solution, I picked up a raspberry pi, 7 inch touchscreen, and loaded in Node-Red with Dashboard UI and started parsing the the local XML. Right now I only have read-only access, but I'm adding authentication to do Feed Modes and Maintenance modes. The goal of this whole project is allow my lady or house sitter the ability to quickly feed the tank or know if the ATO jugs need to be replaced.
I have also added other sensors that aren't part of the Apex, like outside temperatures. I'm also adding the home HVAC target temp as well.
What do you guys think?
