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

[Bigtrout]

I can totally understand . I have been headsdown busy with company work for past couple of months . Lots of security and compliance work.

Yeah been meaning to do an in depth post on relay selection and another on how I did my Beamsworks, but haven't been able to find time.

 

[Ranjib]

Take your time, and just note down the thoughts you think will be important in simple format (post it or some scratch pad). That's what I do. Family and life first, and we will always be able to write a better doc when we are at peace, all we need is those notes, to remind us what was our chain or thoughts.

 

[buddy.]

Can anyone help with this error? I unplugged everything to organise all of my cables. After plugging everything back in and powering on I am getting these errors.
None of my timers are working now either. As far as I can tell I have got everything plugged back in. Manually turning equipment on and off works as expected.

 

[dmolavi]

It's been a long time coming but I'm soon at the point where I can start a build thread of my version of Reef-pi. But until then I'll have to post some specific questions here.

I'm drawing up the enclosure for the whole controller in cad so I can laser cut the parts at work (benefits of working at an architectural firm with a model workshop). I want to have some status leds on the front panel.

• RPi power led, I read somewhere that you can hook that up to pin 1 and it will act as a power status indicator, is that true? Does that pin always have power on as default? If not, do you have any suggestions on how to hook up a custom power indicator led?
• Status indicators for relay board/power module. Can I hook up a small 20mA 5mm led (with resistor) in parallell on the GPIO pin that connects to each of the relays?

Shoot me a PM. I did exactly this.

 

[dmolavi]

I'm loving my ReefPi (can't wait for 3.0 and pH).

With Adafruit IO....my temp probes are updating, but my ATO graph isn't. On my ReefPi dashboard it is updating properly. But adafruit says it hasn't gotten any data. I have one error entry related to it:

Post https://io.adafruit.com/api/v2/dmolavi/feeds/rpisump-reading/data: dial tcp: lookup io.adafruit.com on 8.8.8.8:53: dial udp 8.8.8.8:53: connect: network is unreachable

Which appears to be DNS related. I'd think my temp feed would be impacted as well, but it isn't.

Any ideas?

Edit...

I just readded the feed to IO and this error popped up in ReefPi

Apr 6 07:56:35

{"error":"not found - that is an invalid URL, please check the API documentation at https://io.adafruit.com/api/docs to make sure your URL is correct"}

I'm guessing we're sending to the wrong listener...

 

[That Crusso Kid]

I'm guessing we're sending to the wrong listener...

Unfortunately, I cannot help you with where you're sending your info. However, I can sometimes be a good listener! ;)

 

[Bigtrout]

I'm loving my ReefPi (can't wait for 3.0 and pH).

With Adafruit IO....my temp probes are updating, but my ATO graph isn't. On my ReefPi dashboard it is updating properly. But adafruit says it hasn't gotten any data. I have one error entry related to it:

Post https://io.adafruit.com/api/v2/dmolavi/feeds/rpisump-reading/data: dial tcp: lookup io.adafruit.com on 8.8.8.8:53: dial udp 8.8.8.8:53: connect: network is unreachable

Which appears to be DNS related. I'd think my temp feed would be impacted as well, but it isn't.

Any ideas?

Edit...

I just readded the feed to IO and this error popped up in ReefPi

Apr 6 07:56:35

{"error":"not found - that is an invalid URL, please check the API documentation at https://io.adafruit.com/api/docs to make sure your URL is correct"}

I'm guessing we're sending to the wrong listener...

How many adafruit feeds are you sending? A free account only gets 10 feeds and anything over that causes weird errors because adafruit ignores the extra ones. There is no way to select which feeds you send, and reef pi automatically makes them. I think 3.0 will address this.

Also the network unreachable errors sometimes are caused by things beyond your control between you and adafruit. I notice them occasionally, but they coincide with seeing unrecoverable errors on my cable modem, so I know its my ISP

 

[dmolavi]

How many adafruit feeds are you sending? A free account only gets 10 feeds and anything over that causes weird errors because adafruit ignores the extra ones. There is no way to select which feeds you send, and reef pi automatically makes them. I think 3.0 will address this.

Also the network unreachable errors sometimes are caused by things beyond your control between you and adafruit. I notice them occasionally, but they coincide with seeing unrecoverable errors on my cable modem, so I know its my ISP

Just 5.

Figured it out. Had a space in the name.

 

[Ranjib]

Can anyone help with this error? I unplugged everything to organise all of my cables. After plugging everything back in and powering on I am getting these errors.
None of my timers are working now either. As far as I can tell I have got everything plugged back in. Manually turning equipment on and off works as expected.

This is only ui error, it’s not indicating any controller or adafruit.io errors. You can clear them and it should be ok. The actual error means the usage data for some items is not found , generally it’s used by the charting features , and generally the usage data some time takes a while to appear. Do you have anything under configuration-> error section?

 

[Ranjib]

Heading for reefapalooza, day already started with a good news. Pi 4 is landing soon, it will have 30 more gpio, more cpu speed, more ram, Emmc (better than sad cards ) , and more goodies

 

[That Crusso Kid]

Heading for reefapalooza, day already started with a good news. Pi 4 is landing soon, it will have 30 more gpio, more cpu speed, more ram, Emmc (better than sad cards ) , and more goodies

Have a great time at RAP!

That new Pi4 looks like it will be a powerhouse!

 

[Ranjib]

:-/ huge line in the venue

Just spotted Rico :-), big fan of his youth be videos . Most of it I got from jake Adams/ reef builder channel

Hours long wait ahead it seems, good thing rest of the family is at sea world

 

[Ranjib]

More updates from RAP,
The entry queue was long but very well managed and it moved pretty fast, I was able to get in less than 30min.
@revhtree was being naughty with the lights :-), but I still managed to take a photo of the man ,

And @Ryanbrs , I owe a lot to him. His YouTube videos are probably the second most useful resource I used to learn reef keeping

I spoke to the folks at reeftronics , they make general purpose titration system. They are working on the api bits , and once that in place, it will be really cool to integrate it with reef-pi.

Alkatronic and another alkalinity monitoring system ,

Most of them uses some combination of dosing system and ph probes.
A new pump manufacturer ,looks very promising , it’s AC psu, dc motor , variable speed , still working on the us distributors,

Finally some awesome corals,

Pardon the blue tints , every vendor have made their light extremely blue to make the corals look good , meh .,

 

[That Crusso Kid]

More updates from RAP,
The entry queue was long but very well managed and it moved pretty fast, I was able to get in less than 30min.
@revhtree was being naughty with the lights :), but I still managed to take a photo of the man ,

And @Ryanbrs , I owe a lot to him. His YouTube videos are probably the second most useful resource I used to learn reef keeping

I spoke to the folks at reeftronics , they make general purpose titration system. They are working on the api bits , and once that in place, it will be really cool to integrate it with reef-pi.

Alkatronic and another alkalinity monitoring system ,

Most of them uses some combination of dosing system and ph probes.
A new pump manufacturer ,looks very promising , it’s AC psu, dc motor , variable speed , still working on the us distributors,

Finally some awesome corals,

Pardon the blue tints , every vendor have made their light extremely blue to make the corals look good , meh .,

Thanks for sharing with us!

Who manufactures that pump?

 

[Ranjib]

Thanks for sharing with us!

Who manufactures that pump?

 

[theatrus]

I can totally understand . I have been headsdown busy with company work for past couple of months . Lots of security and compliance work.

Same problem ;)

 

[theatrus]

Heading for reefapalooza, day already started with a good news. Pi 4 is landing soon, it will have 30 more gpio, more cpu speed, more ram, Emmc (better than sad cards ) , and more goodies

That double row GPIO [emoji848]

To be fair, more CPU is the one thing that the Pi didn’t need, though eventually you’ll want to go AArch64 due to nothing else on the planet using a 32bit ARM core outside of the MCU market. Also more GPIOs without a real time core like the Beaglebone series is a wash to me. But then get off my lawn, etc etc ;)

 

[Ranjib]

That double row GPIO [emoji848]

To be fair, more CPU is the one thing that the Pi didn’t need, though eventually you’ll want to go AArch64 due to nothing else on the planet using a 32bit ARM core outside of the MCU market. Also more GPIOs without a real time core like the Beaglebone series is a wash to me. But then get off my lawn, etc etc ;)

The fpga should adress the real time computation needs, right ?

 

[That Crusso Kid]

Thanks @Ranjib . That pump looks like it has some nice and different features. They are Australlian designed.

 

[Ranjib]

That double row GPIO [emoji848]

To be fair, more CPU is the one thing that the Pi didn’t need, though eventually you’ll want to go AArch64 due to nothing else on the planet using a 32bit ARM core outside of the MCU market. Also more GPIOs without a real time core like the Beaglebone series is a wash to me. But then get off my lawn, etc etc ;)

I think this was an April fools joke that I took seriously :-(