Hivemind,
The reef-pi community is excited to announce the immediate availability of reef-pi 3.0, our next major release. This culminates a year worth of development, field testing and a host of experimentation that we started with 2.0. Here are some of the key features that 3.0 release brings:
Here are some useful link for further information:
reef-pi will continue its journey as an open source software, open hardware, modular, extendable and affordable reef tank controller. We hope reef-pi will add values to its current consumers and help us teach and learn all the things involved in the making process.
Last but not least and most important above everything, I want to take this opportunity in this auspicious occasion to thank the countless folks who have helped reef-pi making this journey:
- Raspberry Pi foundation and Adafruitl, for all the opensource hardware components, learning resources and giving us a platform to build on
- @revhtree and team reef2reef: The place reef-pi calls home. For providing us a safe and welcoming forum to host all discussion, feedback and brainstorm ideas.
- @Michael Lane and @Zekth for going above and beyond on the software development side. Bulk of reef-pi 3.0 UI is Michael's work. @Zekth lead the internationalization effort and helped us across all things UI
- @Bigtrout @b4tn @Des Westcott @brandon clow @sfgabe @BenB @burningbaal @Urtoo @Soulreefer @AbjectMaelstroM @PaulJ2303 @Schreiber @Zippyfear @mk1scott @hhaase @Mike Kearns @Blaxkin @Matevz Savarin @buddy @adityaduggal and countless other reef2reef members who have built, tested and helped us making reef-pi better. For those of you whose name im missing here, forgive me, because you made a difference, you deserve a shoutout, and all of reef-pi users will benefit form your effort.
Happy thanksgiving r2r family
The reef-pi community is excited to announce the immediate availability of reef-pi 3.0, our next major release. This culminates a year worth of development, field testing and a host of experimentation that we started with 2.0. Here are some of the key features that 3.0 release brings:
- An improved and versatile device management: reef-pi now has a dedicated Hardware Abstraction Layer, with this we have extended reef-pi 's ability to utilize smart outlets (Kasa smart plug , powerstrip), current monitoring, pH sensors etc. This also allows us using multiple of devices of each kind( ph sensors, PWM boards etc), making reef-pi one of the most capable controllers out there in terms of sheer number of power outlets, sensors, ATOs support.
- An enhanced control system features: pH sensors module has been extended with control capabilities. All sensor-based controls in reef-pi (such as temperature, ph) now supports native one and two-point calibration, hysteresis and ability to control multiple equipment (via macros).
- Arbitrary PWM profile: reef-pi 3.0 introduces arbitrary PWM profiles that can be used for a variety of light simulation and wavemakers. Right now we have support for sine curve, diurnal cycle, random, lunar cycles, arbitrary intervals with linear interpolation and composite profile types. From daylight simulation to custom wavemaker setup, we expect a lot of innovation coming our way using this as our foundation.
- An ecosystem of opensource boards and HATs: reef-pi community has now a host of opensource boards and HATs to ease building controller for those who want to avoid soldering or tinkering with electronics. The opensource pH board, a number of HATs and add on boards are now available at small scale from various community memnbers. 3.0 release went through testing against this boards, other than scratch built, through-hole components based electronics.
- 3d printed enclosures, contraptions and more: reef-pi 3.0 stretched its scope from opensource controller software, open hardware-based electronics to incorporate open source 3d printable designs for building controller enclosures, various contraptions (ATO sensor holder, brackets for mounting enclosures etc). These models are intuitive, beginner-friendly and can be done by most entry-level 3d printers. Other than the actual 3d printable parts, we have also open-sourced the stub designs of various internal components that you all can use to easily build your custom enclosures and components. With innovation on the housing side, users can now make reef-pi reef-pi controllers that are 1/3rd of the size compared to their 2.0 counterparts.
- Internationalization: reef-pi 3.0 now supports multiple languages. This is a new initiative that we are taking one, with a handful of languages. We could use all of your help to make this better. At the time of this write up we have French, Dutch, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese and Persian language support.
Here are some useful link for further information:
- Release packages
- Adafruit tutorials (still in process of being updated)
- Reef2reef main thread
- Thingiverse community
- Additional resources
reef-pi will continue its journey as an open source software, open hardware, modular, extendable and affordable reef tank controller. We hope reef-pi will add values to its current consumers and help us teach and learn all the things involved in the making process.
Last but not least and most important above everything, I want to take this opportunity in this auspicious occasion to thank the countless folks who have helped reef-pi making this journey:
- Raspberry Pi foundation and Adafruitl, for all the opensource hardware components, learning resources and giving us a platform to build on
- @revhtree and team reef2reef: The place reef-pi calls home. For providing us a safe and welcoming forum to host all discussion, feedback and brainstorm ideas.
- @Michael Lane and @Zekth for going above and beyond on the software development side. Bulk of reef-pi 3.0 UI is Michael's work. @Zekth lead the internationalization effort and helped us across all things UI
- @Bigtrout @b4tn @Des Westcott @brandon clow @sfgabe @BenB @burningbaal @Urtoo @Soulreefer @AbjectMaelstroM @PaulJ2303 @Schreiber @Zippyfear @mk1scott @hhaase @Mike Kearns @Blaxkin @Matevz Savarin @buddy @adityaduggal and countless other reef2reef members who have built, tested and helped us making reef-pi better. For those of you whose name im missing here, forgive me, because you made a difference, you deserve a shoutout, and all of reef-pi users will benefit form your effort.
Happy thanksgiving r2r family