reef-pi :: An opensource reef tank controller based on Raspberry Pi.

[denierlexiese]

Does anyone have any recommended sunrise / sunset hours and percentages for blues and whites?

 

[Gareth elliott]

Does anyone have any recommended sunrise / sunset hours and percentages for blues and whites?

I no longer use my black box, but i had mine at 30% white 100% blue. For sps.

As far as sunrise sunset. Set the time based on your viewing schedule. The amount of ramp time depends how subtle you want it. I have mine at a 2 hour ramp. Starting at 7:30 9:30 is max light till 7:30 pm. All off at 9:30


I would move on towards the light forum for more specifics, where saltyfilmfolks or danariddle are more the experts on lighting intensity and duration.

How my ai’s are programed for sps.

 

[denierlexiese]

What is the vertical line, purple line, blue line, light blue line, and green line? Do you have 4 channels of light, and what do they all represent?

How did the sps do under 30% with the black boxes? How many lights did you have for how big a tank? Did you run your blackboxes the same hours as your new lights?

 

[Gareth elliott]

What is the vertical line, purple line, blue line, light blue line, and green line? Do you have 4 channels of light, and what do they all represent?

How did the sps do under 30% with the black boxes? How many lights did you have for how big a tank? Did you run your blackboxes the same hours as your new lights?

My current light has more channels than a black box is all, green and red are set to like 4% i think.

Most coral pur is in the blue/violet range. Red light is filtered out entirely by 100m. Red/green in higher amounts tend to lead to algae growth. Why white was only at 30% and blue at 100%

Its was a 20 gallon long 1 light 10 inches above the tank gave almost complete coverage of the tank, small amount of shadow on either end 1.5 inches or so put softies there.

 

[Ranjib]

This is really depends upon youblight strength (wattage), livestock (mixed reef , sps dominant , softies etc) and positioning of the light. You want 50-100 par for softies, 150+ for sps. Brs has a video on black box and corresponding par values, that can be you starting point, and then calculate back your percentage depending upon your livestock. This is very crude though

 

[binay]

Ranjib am facing an issue with equpiment that is timer based. The relays for ato and temperature control work fine.

 

[Ranjib]

Ranjib am facing an issue with equpiment that is timer based. The relays for ato and temperature control work fine.

Can you elaborate ? What issue it is. What version of reef-pi, etc. I need details to replicate this on my side, then its easier for me to fix the bug, if present

 

[binay]

Am using version 1.4 . The equipment does not turn on/ off based on time .

 

[binay]

I tried changing to Duration but still the same issue

 

[Ranjib]

Does the equipment on/off work when you trigger them manually, from equipment tab ?

 

[Ranjib]

Does reef-pi UI shows the current time of the controller correctly. Its visible at the bottom of the UI, refresh the page to get recent data

 

[binay]

The equipment works manually yes, and the time is also correct

 

[reelss]

Success finally. I was able to get the power controller to work. Also made a cabinet to house all the equipment. Need to tidy up the wiring.

 

[reelss]

When setting telemetry, I can the following error when I click on the Reload button. What could be the reason?

{"error":"Failed to reload reef-pi. Output:. Error: signal: terminated"}

 

[Ranjib]

When setting telemetry, I can the following error when I click on the Reload button. What could be the reason?

{"error":"Failed to reload reef-pi. Output:. Error: signal: terminated"}

this is benign. its just a lazy glitch that I have not fixed. When you reload the controller (thats running inside raspberry pi), it goes out of contact with the UI (code running in your browser) for a short period of time, hence that error. I have to add logic in front end code, that for some operations, it should not wait for response (like reload/reboot/poweroff etc).

 

[binay]

What is the issue that i am unable to get timer to switch on / off equipment

 

[Ranjib]

What is the issue that i am unable to get timer to switch on / off equipment

As of now, I am not sure about this. I'll try to reproduce it this weekend. Your wiring looks correct, since manual on/off is working. This is likely a bug in software or something else. All I can suggest is another round of checks, with this to understand what was reef-pi doing during that time, given your on/off works, to dig deeper. If you prefer, you can also open an issue again reef-pi code repository, that will allow us to track it specifically, but it will involve you logging in to github etc.

journalctl -u reef-pi --no-pager  --since "2018-03-30 10:04" --until "2018-03-30 10:06"

Change the above command to use specific time period when you expect the timer to go on/off, so the above command is a good for troubleshooting a timer that supposed to go on or off at 10:05 every day. reef-pi job specification.

BTW, i found a different UI bug on timer while investigating this, it should not impact any existing timers, but creating new timer was not working as I expected from UI. I'll fix that soon,

 

[binay]

As of now, I am not sure about this. I'll try to reproduce it this weekend. Your wiring looks correct, since manual on/off is working. This is likely a bug in software or something else. All I can suggest is another round of checks, with this to understand what was reef-pi doing during that time, given your on/off works, to dig deeper. If you prefer, you can also open an issue again reef-pi code repository, that will allow us to track it specifically, but it will involve you logging in to github etc.

journalctl -u reef-pi --no-pager  --since "2018-03-30 10:04" --until "2018-03-30 10:06"

Change the above command to use specific time period when you expect the timer to go on/off, so the above command is a good for troubleshooting a timer that supposed to go on or off at 10:05 every day. reef-pi job specification.

BTW, i found a different UI bug on timer while investigating this, it should not impact any existing timers, but creating new timer was not working as I expected from UI. I'll fix that soon,

 

[binay]

Thanks

 

[Ranjib]

Thanks

Did you run that command ? I just cross checked the timer feature on 1.4 , and it worked as expected . The UI bug was a hiccup though. I’ll fix that in next release