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

[sjeff35]

I am assuming this is powered by a 8-channel relay internally ?

Looks so much better than my scratch builds :) . Good job

Yep, it's ugly inside, but it's working.. finally. I took apart an old wall wart I had for the 5v power to the Relay, but I must have soldered it wrong cause it blew the fuse when I plugged it in. So off in search of another power supply to power the relay.

 

[sjeff35]

I wanna see whats inside.........I wanna see whats in side.. I wanna see what is inside I want to see .. Ohh wait.. just show the inside already..

Sheesh ..

Please ..

No you don't. It's UGLY!!! :)

 

[Ranjib]

Hi to all again,and big thank you for Ranjib,this is what i was dreaming about.No hick up no problem at all.To me that controller is wort more than the best Profilux, because i made my self.(with Ranjib and Erika)
Look that picture,perfect or what?

This looks awesome :-)

 

[Ranjib]

That is odd.. I have 4 temp probes , One is next to a high end temp-humidity thing, One is outside the window (yes just to make sure its tracking separate from the others ) One is in a Hvac floor register, and One is actually on top the heat sink on my pi zero..

temp probe next to Known good probe near perfect... on fireplace
temp probe in ac duct shows 55 deg when ac is running and slowly moves up once its off. its high temp is about a deg lower the then temp probe on the fireplace
temp prob outside the window . Well it depends on where the sun is.. But it does kinda follow local weather app. ( i assume its accurate ) Mid day today 109 .. GRRR .
The probe on the pi heat sink runs at 100.5 to 110.00 If i boot the pie into ui it will jump to 125. So i assume its working well..

The pi zero booted to desktop might as well be brick when it comes to usability .well thou its not heavy enough o break anything so less useful then a brick .

Some of these probes are on very long cat3 wires .. See post above Somewhere ....

Yeah,don’t go GUI /desktop with pi zero. It’s only for text mode

 

[jcmental]

:-( , thats a bad UI bug. Let me fix that asap.

Sorry about that.

@Ranjib Thanks for your constant feed back on this thread, I know it must be quite time consuming at times. I love the software but I do have one issue. With this being a beta program and you constantly improving it is there anywhere that show you how to update to the next patched version without losing all the setting you have already spent hours putting in? Say like a video that shows you how exctly how to save your settings before you install the next release and then how to put them into the new install?

 

[njtiger aquariums]

man this has blown up since I took a little break from the site. good work @Ranjib and all.

 

[Des Westcott]

I am setting up a second SD card to test 2.0 beta 5

I've tried twice now and get the same error - when I try check if Reef-Pi is running, I get the following message "Unit reef-pi.service could not be found" Any idea what I did wrong? I installed exactly like I did before which worked fine.

Ranjib, I haven't had a chance to try the lights yet. Later this evening I should be able to give that a go.

 

[Ranjib]

I am setting up a second SD card to test 2.0 beta 5

I've tried twice now and get the same error - when I try check if Reef-Pi is running, I get the following message "Unit reef-pi.service could not be found" Any idea what I did wrong? I installed exactly like I did before which worked fine.

Ranjib, I haven't had a chance to try the lights yet. Later this evening I should be able to give that a go.

It means reef-pi is not installed properly

To check if reef-pi is installed

dpkg -l | grep reef-pi

to install reef-pi

sudo dpkg -i [URL='https://github.com/reef-pi/reef-pi/releases/download/2.0.0-beta-5/reef-pi-2.0.0-beta-5-pi3.deb']reef-pi-2.0.0-beta-5-pi3.deb[/URL]

 

[Des Westcott]

It means reef-pi is not installed properly

To check if reef-pi is installed

dpkg -l | grep reef-pi

to install reef-pi

sudo dpkg -i [URL='https://github.com/reef-pi/reef-pi/releases/download/2.0.0-beta-5/reef-pi-2.0.0-beta-5-pi3.deb']reef-pi-2.0.0-beta-5-pi3.deb[/URL]

When I try run the first command to check if Reef-Pi is installed, I get no response. The cursor just goes to the next line.

When I try run the second to install Reef-Pi, I get "dpkg: error: cannot access archive 'reef-pi-2.0.0-beta-5-pi3.deb': No suchfile or directory"

How do I uninstall and try again? I am following the tutorial at https://reef-pi.github.io/general-guides/install/ to the letter. It worked for 1.5 perfectly.

 

[Des Westcott]

Yes, I am using the correct path for the 2.0.0-beta5 and not the 1.0 version as in the tutorial.

 

[Erica-Renee]

man this has blown up since I took a little break from the site. good work @Ranjib and all.

How did you know my pi blew up... Ok well it just stopped working....

 

[njtiger aquariums]

How did you know my pi blew up... Ok well it just stopped working....

very easy. I knew you had a pi so it had to blow up lol

 

[Erica-Renee]

very easy. I knew you had a pi so it had to blow up lol

NOT Funny.. Not funny at all... I am telling your wife on you for picking on innocent sweet Little old ladies....

 

[Ranjib]

When I try run the first command to check if Reef-Pi is installed, I get no response. The cursor just goes to the next line.

When I try run the second to install Reef-Pi, I get "dpkg: error: cannot access archive 'reef-pi-2.0.0-beta-5-pi3.deb': No suchfile or directory"

How do I uninstall and try again? I am following the tutorial at https://reef-pi.github.io/general-guides/install/ to the letter. It worked for 1.5 perfectly.

This means you don’t have reef-pi build downloaded , you can check it with this

ls -alh

And it should show the reef-pi.deb file

 

[philshel]

NOT Funny.. Not funny at all... I am telling your wife on you for picking on innocent sweet Little old ladies....

I find it difficult to believe that you are a "Little old ladies".

 

[Des Westcott]

This means you don’t have reef-pi build downloaded , you can check it with this

ls -alh

And it should show the reef-pi.deb file

Thanks Ranjib. I'm feeling like a proper idiot with this. Don't know why I'm battling with 2.0 like this.

 

[Ranjib]

Thanks Ranjib. I'm feeling like a proper idiot with this. Don't know why I'm battling with 2.0 like this.

Were you able to check if its dowanloaded ? Share screenshot of your terminal, if possible,

 

[Des Westcott]

Were you able to check if its dowanloaded ? Share screenshot of your terminal, if possible,

 

[Des Westcott]

Here another after trying to run the grep and install commands

 

[Ranjib]

Here another after trying to run the grep and install commands

I think you are passing the whole URL to the installation command, (dpkg -i), you have to just pass the filename instead, i.e.
try this

sudo dpkg -i [URL='https://github.com/reef-pi/reef-pi/releases/download/2.0.0-beta-5/reef-pi-2.0.0-beta-5-pi3.deb']reef-pi-2.0.0-beta-5-pi3.deb[/URL]

and not this

dpkg -i https://github.com/reef-pi/reef-pi/releases/download/2.0.0-beta-5/reef-pi-2.0.0-beta-5-pi3.deb

The second screenshot is the important one, the text in the screen are very small so I am having a hard time deciphering it, but this is what I suspect