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

[speedstar]

If you don't ask you don't get right haha, trouble is I'm in the UK, saying that I wonder where most people in here are[emoji2]

I am in the US, prob not worth the shipping. But you can get them direct from china. I think mine were about $30 shipped for the 10. I can send you the link via pm of who I had do the boards from the gerber files that were provided above.

 

[speedstar]

I have yet to try and get a Board Printed . once you do you will have to acquire smd chips and Have the ability to solder them. But its just a bit of practice and proper equipment to do

This is all through hole, easy soldering

 

[Erica-Renee]

This is all through hole, easy soldering

Sorry i did not look that close at them.. So yea the components we are all already using is simple easy.

Your board is very close to my proto header .

 

[Ranjib]

OK, so that's odd. I wonder if it had something to do with the monitor and connection I was using. Since I had the error, I picked up a 12' HDMI cable to connect to the 32" monitor/TV in the office. It was connected to a standard monitor with a HDMI->DVI cable when I had the error. I haven't updated reef-pi since then. Just copied reef-pi.db to a backup and took pics of all the screens to see if I could recreate. NO FAILURE!

I am fairly sure its an UI bug, its just I am not able to reproduce it. But its strange that you could recreate without any failure. probably the UI bug does not save its state in database, and if its so, then it should work when you refresh or open a new tab.. Anyway.. dont sweat over it, we'll get back to this. Other than that we'll definitely make sure that micor issue does not crash the whole UI (no blank screen)

 

[Ranjib]

Hello. I have noticed several thing in the telemetry UI. Not sure if its a glitch or its how its suppose to be.

1. Every time I open the telemetry tab, the AIO key and password is blank. I assume this is for security reasons so that nobody can just grab it?

2. I first setup email alerts and it was working fine for a couple of days. Then i decided to also use adafruit. After setting up adafruit, i no longer received any email alerts.

3. Since the key and password in the telemetey UI is blank again, i decided to input both the key and email password again and update. After clicking reload in admin, i get an error. So i rebooted the reef pi. I get emails again but no adafruit data.

Really sorry about this poor user experience with the UI. Some of it has been fixed already, but here is the explanation
1. Yes, we hide the password for security reason. If you do edit the creds (user name or password), you must edit/update both of them , else the system will save just updated user with a blank password
2. I think i while updating, by mistake the password was saved as blank (first point). This is just a poor design on our part that we need to fix
3. This error is bengin and expected, it does not mean anything worng. I have fixed it, and the final release wont show you any error when you reload.

 

[Ranjib]

wooo hat boards arrived. Thanks so much for you work on them @wykat

I am feeling jealous :-0).
Jokes aside, it looks very nice. Keep us posted once you solder the parts and put it into action. Do you have a build thread? this definitely deserves one.

 

[Joseph Lim]

Really sorry about this poor user experience with the UI. Some of it has been fixed already, but here is the explanation
1. Yes, we hide the password for security reason. If you do edit the creds (user name or password), you must edit/update both of them , else the system will save just updated user with a blank password
2. I think i while updating, by mistake the password was saved as blank (first point). This is just a poor design on our part that we need to fix
3. This error is bengin and expected, it does not mean anything worng. I have fixed it, and the final release wont show you any error when you reload.

Hello @Ranjib Thank you for taking time to answer my questions.

 

[wykat]

wooo hat boards arrived. Thanks so much for you work on them @wykat

Nice, keep us up to date, especially in the documentation on Github as that would help everybody. I just finished reading the last 10 pages in this thread after I solved a problem with my new oscilloscope, that took me weeks (2 bad solder points). After the oscilloscope worked it only took a couple of minutes to find the root cause of the problems with the Reef-PI_PWM module (as expected a transistor issue). Replaced 1 transistor and then this channel worked immediately .

Before uploading the Reef-PI_PWM data on Github I will make 3 changes:
- Transistor update to BC184B
- Move LM7810 to component side (collides mechanically with the Reef-PI_HAT in present design)
- Update of default address of PCA9685 to work without having to set the address

 

[DirtDiggler2823]

Hey, can I share some quick aquarium progress with you all in here?

 

[b4tn]

I would say heck yeah. Nice to break up the tech talk a bit sometimes

 

[DirtDiggler2823]

So, I've taken a break on building the reef-pi to get the tank actually up and running. I'm working on building the scape now, and after a couple of sit downs, this is what i have. I have to build maybe one more structure, and then add a couple of pedestal or something.

 

[ZHUGHENN]

I wanted to start of making one of these, I wanted to know what parts will be needed to control my black box lights, they are reefbreeders value fixtures and the switches on the drivers have a vdim+,vdim-,on/off, and a v+ for the wires on the dimming switches. What are the pieces ill need to get them controllable with the reef pi, not sure if its pwm or analog which is y i posted the wire labels for the switches, thought u guyz might know, thx

 

[Ranjib]

Hey, can I share some quick aquarium progress with you all in here?

Ofcourse :0-)

 

[Ranjib]

I wanted to start of making one of these, I wanted to know what parts will be needed to control my black box lights, they are reefbreeders value fixtures and the switches on the drivers have a vdim+,vdim-,on/off, and a v+ for the wires on the dimming switches. What are the pieces ill need to get them controllable with the reef pi, not sure if its pwm or analog which is y i posted the wire labels for the switches, thought u guyz might know, thx

do you know what voltage the vdim+ /vdim- is required? any docs/link on the light will be helpful

 

[Ranjib]

I wanted to start of making one of these, I wanted to know what parts will be needed to control my black box lights, they are reefbreeders value fixtures and the switches on the drivers have a vdim+,vdim-,on/off, and a v+ for the wires on the dimming switches. What are the pieces ill need to get them controllable with the reef pi, not sure if its pwm or analog which is y i posted the wire labels for the switches, thought u guyz might know, thx

Welcome to reef2reef, you'll love it here

 

[MaccaPopEye]

Constantly changing and updating the housing design as I go the ability to so easily change and print out the design is both a blessing and a curse haha

I have now printed out V2 of my Reef-Pi power board after I made a list of issues with V1. The biggest issue I had was that outlets were mounted on the top of the housing and the relay and other electronics on the bottom of the housing. This made it really difficult to wire up as I either had a heap of excess wire I had to squeeze in, or I wasn't able to open the housing without undoing half of the wiring.

V2 has all the electronics (outlets, 5V supply and relays) on the top of the housing and the bottom is essentially just a lid that nothing mounts to and can be removed easily for access.

Looking back I can also see how much I'll have dialed in my printer

The new designs will be uploaded to Thingiverse soon.

Today I went and got some 2.5mm wire and other supplies so I plan to get this wired up in the next couple of days.

 

[DirtDiggler2823]

Ofcourse :0-)

That red dragon, that's an sps?

 

[speedstar]

I am feeling jealous :-0).
Jokes aside, it looks very nice. Keep us posted once you solder the parts and put it into action. Do you have a build thread? this definitely deserves one.

I built one out already but it is old school perf board and flea collars. So this will clean it up some and shrink the size.

 

[ZHUGHENN]

do you know what voltage the vdim+ /vdim- is required? any docs/link on the light will be helpful

I don't have any docs/links on the light specifically, but i know that the driver is a well lit driver, I can post pictures of one in a bit, I do however believe it is 10v analog

 

[ZHUGHENN]