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

[Ranjib]

Time for some long due coral pics . Now that my house works are settling , and the new tank is slowly growing, hopefully I’ll get to share more coral photos

Zoa, leptoseris and Ricordia island

Rainbow monti and alveopora . Cleaner shrimp is photo bombing

Acan lord

Fungia . New acquisition

 

[DanTheReefer]

@Ranjib does the reef-pi community have anything in the works for automated alk testing? Was think we could do the ph probe titration method that doesn’t rely on a colorimeter.

 

[Ranjib]

@Ranjib does the reef-pi community have anything in the works for automated alk testing? Was think we could do the ph probe titration method that doesn’t rely on a colorimeter.

There are discussions on this in recent times, but nothing concrete yet. We have an open source peristaltic pump design(3D printed parts and nema23 stepper) , contributed by a community member and other smaller bits that we have to assemble, and do end to end testing .

 

[elysics]

Clean reinstall resolved all the issues i was having with changes not saving, cpu and ram activity are way down again too.

 

[DWKDiver]

On 5.1 trying to reset ATO get this:

Failed to delete. Error: item 'undefined' does not exist in bucket 'ato'

I already deleted and recreated the ATO but same results.

Any idea what is wrong?

 

[Ranjib]

On 5.1 trying to reset ATO get this:

Failed to delete. Error: item 'undefined' does not exist in bucket 'ato'

I already deleted and recreated the ATO but same results.

Any idea what is wrong?

can you refresh and check if theres any usage graph present? this sounds like a minor UI bug(ato id is not being set correctly.. hence the undefined), but im not able to reproduce yet,,

 

[DWKDiver]

can you refresh and check if theres any usage graph present? this sounds like a minor UI bug(ato id is not being set correctly.. hence the undefined), but im not able to reproduce yet,,

Did the refresh several times. Waited a long time refresh. Same results.

 

[FishyFishFish]

Apologies if this is covered in this huge 889 page thread, but I’ve been toying with the idea of playing around with reef-pi and don’t know what I need to start with.

One of the problems is that the Raspberry Pi seems almost impossible to get hold of. What is the current recommendations as to which versions are best, what will work for a simple controller, and where are you buying from?

The Pi 4 seems overkill and I’m worried about the heat. Pi 3 is out of stock almost everywhere. The Pi zero 2w is in stock in one store that I’ve found but I’m not sure how suitable that is.

 

[GaryE]

Apologies if this is covered in this huge 889 page thread, but I’ve been toying with the idea of playing around with reef-pi and don’t know what I need to start with.

One of the problems is that the Raspberry Pi seems almost impossible to get hold of. What is the current recommendations as to which versions are best, what will work for a simple controller, and where are you buying from?

The Pi 4 seems overkill and I’m worried about the heat. Pi 3 is out of stock almost everywhere. The Pi zero 2w is in stock in one store that I’ve found but I’m not sure how suitable that is.

I run one setup on the Pi Zero.. The 2w would be just fine.

 

[DWKDiver]

5.1. I've deleted ato and added back an ato. Let it run for a while and get graph data. Still same error when trying to reset ato.

Can't reset any ato.

 

[marekd1]

Ranjib,

Not sure how everyone would feel about this but could I suggest if possible to drop the year from the graphing function.
I think it would make them little more cleaner looking.

One more question, are you still planning to assign the MQTT messages so they are specific to reef-pi device name? We had a thread while back to help resolve issue when multiple reef-pi devices are broadcasting messages, the messages from another reef-pi device with same name get lost.

Cheers
Mark

 

[Ranjib]

Ranjib,

Not sure how everyone would feel about this but could I suggest if possible to drop the year from the graphing function.
I think it would make them little more cleaner looking.

One more question, are you still planning to assign the MQTT messages so they are specific to reef-pi device name? We had a thread while back to help resolve issue when multiple reef-pi devices are broadcasting messages, the messages from another reef-pi device with same name get lost.

Cheers
Mark

Funny you say that , originally it was not there , but that created confusion during the December to January transition and I had to update code to include year.
this is very simple visual change that we can always change, it’s more about the user experience we have to settle in. I’m open for suggestions

 

[Ranjib]

Regarding mqtt, do we have a GitHub issue to track it ? If not we should start with that and slowly get it fixed. I don’t use mqtt hence not on top of those issues

 

[Ranjib]

5.1. I've deleted ato and added back an ato. Let it run for a while and get graph data. Still same error when trying to reset ato.

Can't reset any ato.

This was minor UI bug. I have fixed it already and will be out in 5.2 . Super sorry for overlooking this and thank you so much for reporting it.

 

[elysics]

Funny you say that , originally it was not there , but that created confusion during the December to January transition and I had to update code to include year.
this is very simple visual change that we can always change, it’s more about the user experience we have to settle in. I’m open for suggestions

I thought about this before, would it be possible to make what is displayed dependant on the time-width of the graph? I.e. only display hours and minutes OR day and month OR just month OR month and year OR just year depending on how much time the graph covers. The full timestamp can still be left in the popup whn selecting datapoints to clear up confusions

Or something similar, to declutter irrelevant data

 

[marekd1]

Funny you say that , originally it was not there , but that created confusion during the December to January transition and I had to update code to include year.
this is very simple visual change that we can always change, it’s more about the user experience we have to settle in. I’m open for suggestions

LOL... I understand the reasoning to include it but I if you have month as you do I am not clear on confusion. I suspect if you want year history graph I would expect that folks are using options like Grafana. In any event are there any possibilities to include an option/switch include year or do not include year this might be the easiest way to make everyone happy ?

or better yet love the elysics suggestion above

 

[marekd1]

Regarding mqtt, do we have a GitHub issue to track it ? If not we should start with that and slowly get it fixed. I don’t use mqtt hence not on top of those issues

Ok I will post an issue to track it. I use Grafana extensively so this level of segregation will allow for multiple reef-pi devices data analytics.

 

[DanTheReefer]

Wow… I didn’t realize raspberry pi’s were so scarce with the chip shortage. Can’t find them anywhere for less than $100, huge bummer for some projects I had planned

 

[Coolhack]

Simple two questions, what is the best raspberry pi camera to use with reef pi and also how many cameras can I have hooked up at one time?

 

[buddy.]

I am getting a bug where my temp graphs on my dashboard seem to not be updating. I was on 4.3 and upgraded to 5.1 but its still happening.
I know its still monitoring the temp in real time but the graphs are always behind by 20 - 30 min and only seem to randomly update. Perhaps I am missing a setting somewhere?