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

[That Crusso Kid]

they are commonly known as micro goniopora. I dont think they are exactly goniopora (like alveopora/goniopora) , they behave very different. They are creazy grower and have really long sweeper tentacle that sting everything. It nuked half of my original goni and killed another goni. I have now contained it in an island, but not sure what i'll do with it in the long run.
They look pretty gorgeous though, they have yellow center and orange/red body.

You certainly have your photography skills dialed in!

 

[janos]

Hi to all,anybody use lcd monitor with reef-pi,if yes please some info. Now i use my main computer with web browser but sometimes would be nice to see and adjust just right beside the tank.Maine computer and monitor is far from my tank,and the reef-pi sitting just beside the tank. Thank you for your time.

 

[Bigtrout]

Hi to all,anybody use lcd monitor with reef-pi,if yes please some info. Now i use my main computer with web browser but sometimes would be nice to see and adjust just right beside the tank.Maine computer and monitor is far from my tank,and the reef-pi sitting just beside the tank. Thank you for your time.

Browser on your cell phone? Works great for me. I even do command line stuff thru my phone.

 

[janos]

Browser on your cell phone? Works great for me. I even do command line stuff thru my phone.

Thank you my eye is not so good.Use now my computer screen but sometimes would be nice to see and adjust just beside the tank.

 

[AquaRaider44]

Thank you my eye is not so good.Use now my computer screen but sometimes would be nice to see and adjust just beside the tank.

I can assure you that any touch screen lcd monitor for the reef pi would be small and expensive. If I were you I would either A. use your computer or B. buy a mouse keyboard and hdmi monitor/tv and connect to the pi so you can use everything right there.

 

[Ranjib]

Hi to all,anybody use lcd monitor with reef-pi,if yes please some info. Now i use my main computer with web browser but sometimes would be nice to see and adjust just right beside the tank.Maine computer and monitor is far from my tank,and the reef-pi sitting just beside the tank. Thank you for your time.

I have used pi touch display in the very big inning. Reef-pi has dedicated controls for switching on /off and dimming the brightness of official pi touch screen display. I don’t use it any more and I realized I rarely use it when phone /tablet/laptop is around . At night the display brightness was a pain .
I regularly used hdmi based monitor to use the built in pi GUI , but those builds are almost exclusively based on pi 3.
You can also use a cheap amazon fire like tablet and google chrome to have similar but more robust experience

 

[Ranjib]

I’ve been busy enjoying with family , taking a vacation in turkey . Great place , artifacts of ottoman and Byzantine civilization is everywhere in the city

During the long plane ride I went through the code and did some hacking with Kasa smart outlet . After some field testing in my garage I think I have a working support for kasa110 single outlet smartplug with current monitoring and Kasa 300 , a 6 outlet powerstrip with current monitoring (independent outlet). We don’t have any notion of current monitoring in reef-pi yet, so for the time being the drivers for the smart plugs expose a standard outlet interface as well as analog input interface (that returns the current utilization) , which for the time being can be visualized as ph (since they are just tied to an analog input ) . Overall, at the end of all this I was able to build a simple temperature controller that has only a pi zero and an audio jack to plug in a temp sensor. This controller paired with a Kasa smart poweratrip or plug , can monitor as well as control heater and at the same time report back the current utilization. I also went ahead and get my hands dirty with a rather primitive 3d printed enclosure. It’s tiny

Has only the bare minimal, pi zero is powered by stock micro usb connector. Thankfully, Kasa smar strip has 5v, 2.4a USB port, so one less power adapter.

I have added two notches to easily mount the enclosure anywhere using couple of screws

Pi zero and audio jack fits neatly.

I’m putting it in action next week and I’ll update you all how things go. I’m worried about smart outlets being dependent on network, but we’ll see. I’m otherwise very happy with the powerstrip in particular, it’s sleek , has touch control for each outlet for manual override , has current monitoring for each outlets, we can offload the timers on the smart strip directly if we want and there’s 5v , 2.4a usb sockets. All of this at 60$ , that’s just super awesome. Field testing will reveal more though ... but I’m hopeful :-)

 

[janos]

I have used pi touch display in the very big inning. Reef-pi has dedicated controls for switching on /off and dimming the brightness of official pi touch screen display. I don’t use it any more and I realized I rarely use it when phone /tablet/laptop is around . At night the display brightness was a pain .
I regularly used hdmi based monitor to use the built in pi GUI , but those builds are almost exclusively based on pi 3.
You can also use a cheap amazon fire like tablet and google chrome to have similar but more robust experience

Thank you Ranjib i think i try the HDMI monitor just beside the reef-pi.You are right about the light at night time right now the hole thing around the tank look like a Christmas tree,wave maker light,main pump light,sump light,+night lite for the tank. Sometime just would be nice to adjust right beside the tank.

 

[janos]

I can assure you that any touch screen lcd monitor for the reef pi would be small and expensive. If I were you I would either A. use your computer or B. buy a mouse keyboard and hdmi monitor/tv and connect to the pi so you can use everything right there.

Thank you i was thinking about the HDMI monitor just could not use the right words.Right now i do everything from my computer monitor,27" that is good.Have extra mouse and keyboard so i try as you suggested,mouse,keyboard,and HDMI monitor.Thank you again.

 

[AquaRaider44]

Thank you i was thinking about the HDMI monitor just could not use the right words.Right now i do everything from my computer monitor,27" that is good.Have extra mouse and keyboard so i try as you suggested,mouse,keyboard,and HDMI monitor.Thank you again.

I defiantly think this will be the best solution for you as the pi has a great interface/desktop and this allows you to use everything as a regular computer but better because no need for remote connections to install reef pi.

 

[That Crusso Kid]

I’ve been busy enjoying with family , taking a vacation in turkey . Great place , artifacts of ottoman and Byzantine civilization is everywhere in the city

During the long plane ride I went through the code and did some hacking with Kasa smart outlet . After some field testing in my garage I think I have a working support for kasa110 single outlet smartplug with current monitoring and Kasa 300 , a 6 outlet powerstrip with current monitoring (independent outlet). We don’t have any notion of current monitoring in reef-pi yet, so for the time being the drivers for the smart plugs expose a standard outlet interface as well as analog input interface (that returns the current utilization) , which for the time being can be visualized as ph (since they are just tied to an analog input ) . Overall, at the end of all this I was able to build a simple temperature controller that has only a pi zero and an audio jack to plug in a temp sensor. This controller paired with a Kasa smart poweratrip or plug , can monitor as well as control heater and at the same time report back the current utilization. I also went ahead and get my hands dirty with a rather primitive 3d printed enclosure. It’s tiny

Has only the bare minimal, pi zero is powered by stock micro usb connector. Thankfully, Kasa smar strip has 5v, 2.4a USB port, so one less power adapter.

I have added two notches to easily mount the enclosure anywhere using couple of screws

Pi zero and audio jack fits neatly.

I’m putting it in action next week and I’ll update you all how things go. I’m worried about smart outlets being dependent on network, but we’ll see. I’m otherwise very happy with the powerstrip in particular, it’s sleek , has touch control for each outlet for manual override , has current monitoring for each outlets, we can offload the timers on the smart strip directly if we want and there’s 5v , 2.4a usb sockets. All of this at 60$ , that’s just super awesome. Field testing will reveal more though ... but I’m hopeful :)

Hope you and your family are enjoying your trip in Turkey. I was there about 10 years ago for a month and thoroughly enjoyed it. I spent an entire day in the Blue Mosque.

 

[janos]

Hi to all,anybody could help me out with this msg. Try to calibrate PH probe. Thank you

Time	Emitter	Type	Content
18/07/2019, 07:33:00	UI	ERROR	{"error":"json: cannot unmarshal object into Go value of type []hal.Measurement"} | HTTP 400
18/07/2019, 07:32:08	UI	ERROR	{"error":"json: cannot unmarshal object into Go value of type []hal.Measurement"} | HTTP 400

 

[janos]

New msg again look like i forget everything since 2 years ago i installed 2.0 alpha,everything was working without a hitch.
Now i bought ML board and all the parts again to build a complete new controller.Try 10 times each time new error,could not fallow Adafruit because i try to set up 3.0.0 alpha 2 and the adafruit is 2.4
What is this msg.

• Settings
• Connectors
• Telemetry
• Authentication
• Drivers
• Errors
• Admin
• About

Jul 18 08:02:42
ph subsystem: Failed read probe:PH BoardError:Item '' does not exist in bucket 'analog_inputs'

Jul 18 08:06:08
temperature sub-system. Failed to read sensor reef65. Error:open /sys/bus/w1/devices/28-04177049bcff/w1_slave: no such file or directory

Clear

 

[Ranjib]

New msg again look like i forget everything since 2 years ago i installed 2.0 alpha,everything was working without a hitch.
Now i bought ML board and all the parts again to build a complete new controller.Try 10 times each time new error,could not fallow Adafruit because i try to set up 3.0.0 alpha 2 and the adafruit is 2.4
What is this msg.

• Settings
• Connectors
• Telemetry
• Authentication
• Drivers
• Errors
• Admin
• About

Jul 18 08:02:42
ph subsystem: Failed read probe:pH BoardError:Item '' does not exist in bucket 'analog_inputs'

Jul 18 08:06:08
temperature sub-system. Failed to read sensor reef65. Error:eek:pen /sys/bus/w1/devices/28-04177049bcff/w1_slave: no such file or directory

Clear

Did you reset your database before upgrading? There are two separate error. The first error indicate you have ph probe that has not been configured with driver, connectors. The second error indicate your temperature sensor is not detected.
For the first error, delete and recreate it. Which version you are running now ? Use 2.4 if you are unsure or don’t want to use command line for certain configuration.

 

[janos]

Did you reset your database before upgrading? There are two separate error. The first error indicate you have ph probe that has not been configured with driver, connectors. The second error indicate your temperature sensor is not detected.
For the first error, delete and recreate it. Which version you are running now ? Use 2.4 if you are unsure or don’t want to use command line for certain configuration.

Thank you Ranjib for your replay,i fix the temp sensor that was easy,but PH could not fix.Look like it is working shows the PH and when i try to calibrate i got error msg.

 

[janos]

Should i disable PH status to calibrate ?

 

[janos]

What is that msg. mean ?

 

[Ranjib]

What is that msg. mean ?

I’m having a hard time seeing these images, the resolution doesn’t not reveal the text.
You have to disable the probe before running calibration. I’m assuming you are running ezo probe ?

 

[sfgabe]

Im reluctant on relying on 3rd party/external system for the data part. Also im curious if adding arbitrary lat/long makes sense, since most corals that we keep are tropical. I do want to have some gps aware things, and I think biotopes might be a good candidate to run such experiments, but even in those cases the data should not vary a lot and probably we'll always have a robust locally configurable/dynamic profile with no external dependencies. Im still looking for graphs that I can use for building this profile. The website you shared provide moon's relative location compared to earth (astronomical data), not observed moonlight intensity/spectrum. I need the later,

I use Tides4Fishing for Lunar data. It includes rise, set, phase, and intensity, among other things. Unfortunately, they don't make their data easily available - I'm using a web scraper to hit their site a few times a day (shhh) - but maybe if you ask nicely? At least you might be able to use it to check your calculations. Here's an example of a detailed location profile.

 

[janos]

I’m having a hard time seeing these images, the resolution doesn’t not reveal the text.
You have to disable the probe before running calibration. I’m assuming you are running ezo probe ?

Thank you Ranjib,i bought the ML board and the PH from ML tindi store,error json:can not unmarshall object into Go value of type hal.Measurament }HTTP400