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

pickupman66 · Jan 30, 2019

OK. I will have to replicate it again tonight as the logs are no longer available for that timeframe. ill trip the switch and let it be on for a while.
Logs begin at Tue 2019-01-29 16:48:23 CST, end at Wed 2019-01-30 14:58:58 CST

bishoptf · Jan 30, 2019

pickupman66 said:
OK. I will have to replicate it again tonight as the logs are no longer available for that timeframe. ill trip the switch and let it be on for a while.
Logs begin at Tue 2019-01-29 16:48:23 CST, end at Wed 2019-01-30 14:58:58 CST

I think the logs are still there, in raspbian they roll them daily so look here and see if this helps, I sometimes can be too brief, so if something doesn't make sense let me know and I can provide more details:

Additional logging can be found in syslog which is found here /var/log/

if you do something like this it will show you the files: ls -l /var/log/sys*

Code:

bishop@tankpi:~ $ ls -l /var/log/sys*
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 2248393 Jan 30 17:13 /var/log/syslog
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 5184178 Jan 30 06:25 /var/log/syslog.1
-rw-r----- 1 root adm  239482 Jan 29 06:25 /var/log/syslog.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm  239003 Jan 28 06:25 /var/log/syslog.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm  222247 Jan 27 06:25 /var/log/syslog.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm  179615 Jan 26 06:25 /var/log/syslog.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm  164837 Jan 25 06:25 /var/log/syslog.6.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm  153403 Jan 24 06:25 /var/log/syslog.7.gz

They compress the older logs to save space, that is what the .gz is indicating, to decompress a log file the
command you would use is :

Code:

sudo gunzip /var/log/syslog.2.gz

Then you can see the contents, since you are looking for a time period I would do something like this:

Code:

cat /var/log/syslog.2 | grep "Jan 29 09:" | more

That will produce something like this:

Code:

Jan 29 09:00:17 tankpi reef-pi[20930]: 2019/01/29 09:00:17 lighting-subsystem: Setting PWM value: 0  at channel: 1
Jan 29 09:00:17 tankpi reef-pi[20930]: 2019/01/29 09:00:17 Setting pwm driver: rpi pin: 1 value: 0
Jan 29 09:00:17 tankpi reef-pi[20930]: 2019/01/29 09:00:17 health check: Used memory: 11.14  Load5: 0.02
Jan 29 09:00:21 tankpi dhcpcd[524]: wlan0: adding address 2001:470:7c:4ef:3f5f:fb0d:5a08:4bc7/66
Jan 29 09:00:21 tankpi dhcpcd[524]: if_addaddress6: Invalid argument
Jan 29 09:00:29 tankpi reef-pi[20930]: 2019/01/29 09:00:29 Reading temperature from device: 28-00000a9aeb40
Jan 29 09:00:30 tankpi reef-pi[20930]: 2019/01/29 09:00:30 temperature sub-system:  sensor Temp2-5g value: 79.025
Jan 29 09:00:30 tankpi reef-pi[20930]: 2019/01/29 09:00:30 temperature subsystem: Current temperature is below minimum threshold. Executing w
arm up routine
Jan 29 09:00:31 tankpi reef-pi[20930]: 2019/01/29 09:00:31 Setting GPIO Pin: 6 State: 1
--More--

Notice the --More-- callout at the bottom, that will return a page at a time or you can also search within the output by using the "/" and then indicating the string you want to search for, or you can just page through the log file page by page. Noticing I was trying to start at a certain time so you don't have to page through so much but you would input your date and time range where I have "Jan 29 09:"

Once you are finished with the log file and if you want to compress it again just issue this command:

Code:

sudo gzip /var/log/syslog.2

Hope this helps, should be able to find the information in your logs. :)

Ranjib · Jan 30, 2019

It should be trivial to test the alert dispatch on demand. Like you can configure the ato to poll at 2 second interval while the alert threshold is set to 6, and then just hold the probe above water for 6 seconds... and that should trigger an alert. Watch the log while you are doing all this, to see what reef-pi is doing

bishoptf · Jan 30, 2019

Ranjib said:
It should be trivial to test the alert dispatch on demand. Like you can configure the ato to poll at 2 second interval while the alert threshold is set to 6, and then just hold the probe above water for 6 seconds... and that should trigger an alert. Watch the log while you are doing all this, to see what reef-pi is doing

Well that would probably be the easier path :)

pickupman66 · Jan 30, 2019

It is not calling to send message.

Jan 30 20:26:41 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:26:41 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 1
Jan 30 20:26:41 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:26:41 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 0
Jan 30 20:26:46 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:26:46 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:26:46 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:26:46 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:26:51 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:26:51 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:26:51 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:26:51 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:26:56 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:26:56 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:26:56 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:26:56 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:01 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:01 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:01 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:01 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:06 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:06 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:06 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:06 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:11 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:11 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:11 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:11 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:16 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:16 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:16 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:16 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:21 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:21 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:21 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:21 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:26 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:26 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:26 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:26 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:31 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:31 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:31 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:31 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:36 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:36 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:36 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:36 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:39 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:39 Reading temperature from device: 28-01131e872049
Jan 30 20:27:39 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:39 Reading temperature from device: 28-0213169a87aa
Jan 30 20:27:39 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:39 health check: Used memory: 14.45 Load5: 0.02
Jan 30 20:27:40 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:40 temperature sub-system: sensor Sump-Temp value: 77.45
Jan 30 20:27:40 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:40 temperature sub-system: sensor Tank-Temp value: 77.5616
Jan 30 20:27:40 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:40 temperature subsystem: Current temperature is within range switching off heater/cooler
Jan 30 20:27:40 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:40 Setting GPIO Pin: 6 State: 0
Jan 30 20:27:41 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:41 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:41 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:41 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:46 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:46 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:46 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:46 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:51 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:51 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:51 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:51 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1

Ranjib · Jan 31, 2019

pickupman66 said:
It is not calling to send message.

Jan 30 20:26:41 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:26:41 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 1
Jan 30 20:26:41 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:26:41 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 0
Jan 30 20:26:46 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:26:46 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:26:46 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:26:46 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:26:51 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:26:51 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:26:51 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:26:51 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:26:56 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:26:56 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:26:56 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:26:56 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:01 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:01 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:01 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:01 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:06 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:06 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:06 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:06 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:11 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:11 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:11 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:11 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:16 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:16 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:16 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:16 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:21 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:21 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:21 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:21 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:26 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:26 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:26 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:26 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:31 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:31 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:31 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:31 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:36 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:36 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:36 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:36 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:39 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:39 Reading temperature from device: 28-01131e872049
Jan 30 20:27:39 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:39 Reading temperature from device: 28-0213169a87aa
Jan 30 20:27:39 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:39 health check: Used memory: 14.45 Load5: 0.02
Jan 30 20:27:40 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:40 temperature sub-system: sensor Sump-Temp value: 77.45
Jan 30 20:27:40 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:40 temperature sub-system: sensor Tank-Temp value: 77.5616
Jan 30 20:27:40 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:40 temperature subsystem: Current temperature is within range switching off heater/cooler
Jan 30 20:27:40 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:40 Setting GPIO Pin: 6 State: 0
Jan 30 20:27:41 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:41 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:41 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:41 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:46 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:46 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:46 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:46 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1
Jan 30 20:27:51 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:51 ato sub-system: sensor ATO value: 0
Jan 30 20:27:51 raspberrypi reef-pi[25088]: 2019/01/30 20:27:51 Setting GPIO Pin: 5 State: 1

Can you check you have alert enabled in your telemetry configuration? Remember you have to reload reef-pi if you change telemetry configuration, for it to take effect.

KGTD · Jan 31, 2019

Hey Ranjib, quick question for you. The American DJ SR P8 - are those relays normally-open or normally-closed? I am thinking about putting a CO2 solenoid on there and I want the solenoid output to default to off.

Ranjib · Jan 31, 2019

KGTD said:
Hey Ranjib, quick question for you. The American DJ SR P8 - are those relays normally-open or normally-closed? I am thinking about putting a CO2 solenoid on there and I want the solenoid output to default to off.

Normally open, i.e. if pi is powered down, the outlets will be turned off.

Ranjib · Jan 31, 2019

KGTD said:
Hey Ranjib, quick question for you. The American DJ SR P8 - are those relays normally-open or normally-closed? I am thinking about putting a CO2 solenoid on there and I want the solenoid output to default to off.

Welcome to reef2reef :-)

Bigtrout · Jan 31, 2019

Ranjib said:
Normally open, i.e. if pi is powered down, the outlets will be turned off.

Looks like a fellow freshwater planted convert possibly. Welcome! Start a build thread when you build!

Freshwater planted pi, frog pi, turtle pi...if someone controls a grow tent with this will that be reefer pi?

dmolavi · Jan 31, 2019

Bigtrout said:
Looks like a fellow freshwater planted convert possibly. Welcome! Start a build thread when you build!

Freshwater planted pi, frog pi, turtle pi...if someone controls a grow tent with this will that be reefer pi?

Port OS-X to it...Apple Pi....nom nom nom

pickupman66 · Jan 31, 2019

Ranjib said:
Can you check you have alert enabled in your telemetry configuration? Remember you have to reload reef-pi if you change telemetry configuration, for it to take effect.

yes. Telemetry is been enabled for quite some time. The only change I've made recently was a password update to it. It properly sends a test message. I have verified that functionality.

b4tn · Jan 31, 2019

@Ranjib, what is this error that updates every minute? My Adafruit.IO is currently turned off but it still shows up. The error is always there but the time changes to the current time. If I clear it it comes back but does not seem to affect anything.

Jan 31 09:53:30
{"error":"not found - API documentation can be found at https://io.adafruit.com/api/docs"}

That Crusso Kid · Jan 31, 2019

Bigtrout said:
Looks like a fellow freshwater planted convert possibly. Welcome! Start a build thread when you build!

Freshwater planted pi, frog pi, turtle pi...if someone controls a grow tent with this will that be reefer pi?

"reefer pi"... absolutely!

Ranjib · Jan 31, 2019

b4tn said:
@Ranjib, what is this error that updates every minute? My Adafruit.IO is currently turned off but it still shows up. The error is always there but the time changes to the current time. If I clear it it comes back but does not seem to affect anything.

Jan 31 09:53:30
{"error":"not found - API documentation can be found at https://io.adafruit.com/api/docs"}

Something is trying to send an adafruit metric to a feed that does not exist. Clear them, and see if it reappears after reboot.

Ranjib · Jan 31, 2019

Ranjib said:
Something is trying to send an adafruit metric to a feed that does not exist. Clear them, and see if it reappears after reboot.

Oops, sorry I didn’t read through . If it’s reappearing even if telemetry is disabled , then it’s a bug. I have to track down exactly which component is doing that. You have three of these errors? Which component you have three ? Like temperature or ato ?

KGTD · Jan 31, 2019

Bigtrout said:
Looks like a fellow freshwater planted convert possibly. Welcome! Start a build thread when you build!

Freshwater planted pi, frog pi, turtle pi...if someone controls a grow tent with this will that be reefer pi?

Yup! Thanks for the welcome all. This is a great project and community. I will definitely share my build soon :)

That Crusso Kid · Jan 31, 2019

KGTD said:
Yup! Thanks for the welcome all. This is a great project and community. I will definitely share my build soon :)

Welcome aboard! Looking forward to seeing your build.

b4tn · Jan 31, 2019

Ranjib said:
Oops, sorry I didn’t read through . If it’s reappearing even if telemetry is disabled , then it’s a bug. I have to track down exactly which component is doing that. You have three of these errors? Which component you have three ? Like temperature or ato ?

I have two temp probes and one ATO. The ATO is set to check every 10 sec, one temp probe is set to check every 30 seconds, and one set to check every 60 seconds. The error appears to update every 60 seconds.

b4tn · Jan 31, 2019

I have a light adjustment question. When the lights are in Auto mode do you need to set the minimum and maximum in the top bar? Or do you just adjust the individual sliders? for instance I was wondering if you set min to 0 and max to 50 in the top bar then the slider only gives you 50% max when its set to 100.