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Nice is the RTC working like its supposed toRTC installed
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Nice is the RTC working like its supposed toRTC installed
Nice is the RTC working like its supposed to
That answer will come the first time power blinks on and off and on again and your raspian still boots and the files dont corrupt from bad time stamps/and your reef pi keeps its scheduling without internet, which is why I added the RTC to my install.Seems to be. I followed the Adafruit guide you posted in your build thread and had no issues. All the checks seemed to preduce the required answers.
Is it better than before? I have no idea yet.
Whoa :0) , this is super cool.Thais mess of buckets, drums, wires and pipes is very significant. I just did my first Auto Water Change. Yes, I had to carry the drums and buckets, but it was just a test to see if the systems worked as predicted. Going forward, the old water will go straight into a drain and the replacement water will come from a large drum outside. I have to say it worked brilliantly. Just pressed one "button" on my phone and it pumped roughly 10l out and then replaced it with the same volume. I'm going to be running this macro manually for now so I can keep an eye on how it works, but once I'm happy with it's reliability, I will schedule it in Reef-Pi so that it does it at set times. Once a day? That will be about 70l a week - less that 10% Maybe more. I'll see.
Here are the float switches
And here's the Macro that does the magic
I've got very small piping on the pumps at the moment (+- 3mm ID) because it's what I had lying around - I'm hopefully getting the right size pipe tomorrow (8mm ID). Should speed the pumping up considerably. I'll then adjust the Wait times accordingly.
To say that I'm EXTREMELY happy with the result is an understatement.
This is epic .By using the "AWC Out" and "AWC In" ATO usage graphs in Reef-Pi, I've been able to tweak the Macro and get the wait times for "Out" and "In" to not have huge delays.
The last 4 "Out" times have been 220, 212, 212, 212 seconds and the "In" times have been 242, 244, 244, 246. So I have the "Out" part of the Macro running for 250 seconds and the "In" for 300 seconds at the moment. Way better than the 500 and 500 I had as a guess the first time I ran it.
The community is what reef-pi is about...in no time at all you will be helping the next people with their builds because you built a reef pi and had successes and setbacks but the important thing is you learn from both!BTW @Ranjib I was surprised and honored at the mention in the 3.0 release post. Thank you. Sometimes it feels like all I do is ask how to fix what I've broken or don't know how to use properly
+100.The community is what reef-pi is about...in no time at all you will be helping the next people with their builds because you built a reef pi and had successes and setbacks but the important thing is you learn from both!
That answer will come the first time power blinks on and off and on again and your raspian still boots and the files dont corrupt from bad time stamps/and your reef pi keeps its scheduling without internet, which is why I added the RTC to my install.
Ssh into the pi and use the command
timedatectl
If the rtc time listed matches the other clocks its working
No that is normal. Mine is the same. As lomg as its synched to UTC you are good to go.I have just run the timedatectl command as you suggested and noticed that the RTC time is on UTC which is 2 hours behind my local time. Is this a problem? Does the Pi know this and make all adjustments based on this? Or should I figure out how to set the RTC to my local time?