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

[Ranjib]

Just posted this up DYI Rollermat Filter, designed in Tinkercad...

Looks awesome. What’s the rpm of the motor ? You will cover the dc motor , or plan to keep it exposed.
I was thinking of using plexiglass or acrylic sheets for some of the housing , and 3D print rest .

 

[Dave's Reef]

You have a driver that’s not loaded. Which driver the connector wp1 is using ? That driver is not loaded

I am using the hs300 driver

 

[Matt Carden]

If the power goes out does reef-pi automatically start controlling the tank or do you have to relog in each time?

 

[GaryE]

If the power goes out does reef-pi automatically start controlling the tank or do you have to relog in each time?

It restarts as long as the SD card does not get corrupted. But that's a very real possibility with RPi. If you are prepared though, it's not a very difficult thing to recover from.

 

[Vnomus]

Looks awesome. What’s the rpm of the motor ? You will cover the dc motor , or plan to keep it exposed.
I was thinking of using plexiglass or acrylic sheets for some of the housing , and 3D print rest .

It's 12v 6rpm. I haven't covered the motor but it's probably not a bad idea....

 

[stefanm]

I'm having an issue, my temperature sensors are no longer showing on reef-pi, it probably happened after a long power cut approximately 6 days ago, subsequently I updated reef-pi to 4.2, still no luck. If I click edit on the laptop nothing happens, on my mobile i can access but sensors aren't showing.

Any ideas where to start?

 

[elysics]

It restarts as long as the SD card does not get corrupted. But that's a very real possibility with RPi. If you are prepared though, it's not a very difficult thing to recover from.

I forgot what i did exactly, but i changed something somewhere so the "dirty bit" is ignored or automatically repaired or whatever and I went from corrupt SD card every 2nd to 3rd power cut to never having had that problem since with numerous powercuts.

It's disabling a safety feature, but i'm not really worried about corrupt data on my pi i am worried about reefpi not running.

 

[DWKDiver]

FYI

My DC dosers do not work with 5.2 version. Deleted readded restarted ... no go.
Updated back to 5.1 ... no problems. DC dosers working fine. I rebooted.

At least the dosers are now working.

 

[stefanm]

I'm having an issue, my temperature sensors are no longer showing on reef-pi, it probably happened after a long power cut approximately 6 days ago, subsequently I updated reef-pi to 4.2, still no luck. If I click edit on the laptop nothing happens, on my mobile i can access but sensors aren't showing.

Any ideas where to start?

Anyone?

 

[Ranjib]

Anyone?

do you see the sensor registered under /sys/bus/w1/devices ? if its not there, its beyond reef-pi. you have to check with wiring, sensor etc

 

[Ranjib]

FYI

My DC dosers do not work with 5.2 version. Deleted readded restarted ... no go.
Updated back to 5.1 ... no problems. DC dosers working fine. I rebooted.

At least the dosers are now working.

oops :-( . I'll file a bug and test it out ASAP

 

[GaryE]

Anyone?

Pull one of the sensors and see if the others start working.

 

[GaryE]

I started a thread (https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/arduino-temperature-control.900668/) to discuss my arduino project.

If you're interested in it, please stop by and share your thoughts.

 

[bishoptf]

I forgot what i did exactly, but i changed something somewhere so the "dirty bit" is ignored or automatically repaired or whatever and I went from corrupt SD card every 2nd to 3rd power cut to never having had that problem since with numerous powercuts.

It's disabling a safety feature, but i'm not really worried about corrupt data on my pi i am worried about reefpi not running.

Once I went to the high endurance SD cards I haven't had any issues with the SD cards and corruptions, but ya know how that goes. Why I like having my stuff split, I have the always on stuff on the Kasa strip and even if the rpi dumps, my return pump and wave pumps will keep chugging along...I will loose heaters but I should get a text message if the grafana is not able to get updated data so at least I will know there is an issue. As long as I keep a backup database handy (keep meaning to cron that up for a nightly backup) then I can rebuild and restore in 30min or less. Most of that time is spent on upgrading the rpi software.

:)

 

[stefanm]

do you see the sensor registered under /sys/bus/w1/devices ? if its not there, its beyond reef-pi. you have to check with wiring, sensor etc

How do I check that?

 

[robsworld78]

How do I check that?

Open the SSH terminal for the Pi and type in the following command.

cd /sys/bus/w1/devices

Then type in

ls

It should come back with some directories, one being w1_bus_master1 and then one for each sensor connected, they should start with 28-

 

[ReeferLou]

Open the SSH terminal for the Pi and type in the following command.

cd /sys/bus/w1/devices

Then type in

ls

It should come back with some directories, one being w1_bus_master1 and then one for each sensor connected, they should start with 28-

For example :

 

[elysics]

I haven't looked into these fancy external graphing and dashboard stuff you guys use, have always just used the reefpi internal one over vpn, I assume you need an external server or service subscription or something for that to work?

 

[stefanm]

Open the SSH terminal for the Pi and type in the following command.

cd /sys/bus/w1/devices

Then type in

ls

It should come back with some directories, one being w1_bus_master1 and then one for each sensor connected, they should start with 28-

It's not showing any devices, maybe there's a cold solder joint and it's come loose, I'll check when I get the chance.

 

[bishoptf]

I haven't looked into these fancy external graphing and dashboard stuff you guys use, have always just used the reefpi internal one over vpn, I assume you need an external server or service subscription or something for that to work?

Yeah you need another rpi (like anyone needs an excuse to have more than one) or some other way to host the software. For the most part you would not want to host it on the same rpi running reef-pi. Although with the rpi 4 you probably have enough horsepower to run it, there are advantages with keeping it separate. @Ranjib has put Prometheus into the reef-pi software to expose the data you just need a device to collect it and display it, most folks use Grafana to do that. I would say its a luxury and nice to have, but that other rpi device can be used to do other things to monitor reef-pi etc, nice to have and the charts are much nicer and configurable etc...:)