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

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Is there a way I can disable ssl from the command line? I have been having tons of issues accessing my reefpi. Some days it works flawlessly and other days I cannot access it. Several reboots and it will eventually come up. I can access and log in with putty with no problems. In IE I can get to the point where it says it’s not a secure site but continue anyway but it won’t load. I can read the cert details and everything. Firefox and chrome just spin. I get the same in both windows and Apple environment.
Yes.. you can use the reef-pi dB command against system bucket to update the ssl settings, check troubleshooting docs for details. It will involve stopping reef-pi and editing Json file.

Https shou,d not be troublesome, may be we can debug that bit,
 
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I dug the hole deeper :) I managed to get logged in like mentioned after several reboots. Went to the admin console and changed the drop down from https to http. Reboot and now can’t get back in again. I think maybe I did not put a :80 after the 0.0.0.0. I backed up the database and reinstalled reefpi which worked great until I restored the database and it brought back my old IP settings. So I’m back to everything running but can’t access it. Any ideas to get back into the web console so I can fix my ip settings?
When you reload reef-pi it will log what port and ip it’s using . That should give you clue on how to access it,
 
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Having some issues with HS300.

I had the HS300 setup and Reef-pi controlling a single plug as a test. Then I powered off the HS300 to mount it, now I get errors in reef-pi when trying to add the other plugs and control the previously working plug.

I tried restarting the reef-pi and also checked the IP is the same on the hs300.

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If you restart pi, the hs300 driver get wedged due to reef-pi starting before network, just reload reef-pi (not restart pi) and thing should get back to normal,
You can add a line in reef-pi systemd unit file to ensure it’s started after network , to avoid this issue .
 
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Awesome! Thanks!
Worked like a charm!
Let us know how you like the macro system, I plan to improve it over the course of this year and future, going forward macro will become the foundation of many high level automation and it’s very important we sort out all the bugs and make it stable
 
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If you are looking at platinum probes for temp...i.e pt100 it may pay to look at pid loops for control!!! If you want precision may as well go full out! You could use a solid state relay on pwm to pulse heaters with a pid loop and practically keep a tank precisely where you want.
That being said, my 75 generally stays within +-.1 degrees with the good drok sensors I got, checking the temp every 60 seconds with hysteresis set at .2.
That will be nice :)
I am also pretty happy with the current temp sensor performance , I think it’s more than enough for my tanks . But it’s always good to have better sensor and logic support
 

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Here's an example I was shown from @Des Westcott, he's the macro specialist and teaching me. :)

I'll try and explain as I understand it. This example uses a low/high level sensor to control separate pumps just like you're after. It also has an ATO sensor that gets disabled but you can ignore that.

I assume you setup your two sensors in the ATO tab, in this example that is 'AWC Out' (low level) and 'AWC in' (high level). When you setup these 'ATO' sensors have the low level set to control the drain pump and the high level should control the fill pump.

Sounds like you have your pumps setup correctly.

Now you need to create a 'Macro' to control everything. You might want to create two, call one 'Manual AWC' and the other 'Auto AWC'. There's a slight "glitch" with macros, if you want to use a timer to trigger the macro you need to setup the 'Steps' in reverse and set the 'Reversible' drop down box to 'Yes'. This is why you need 2 macros so you can better test it and run the AWC manually.

Let's go through each 'Steps' in the macro.
  1. The first step is optional and sounds like it doesn't apply to you but if you did have an ATO sensor you would first need to disable this sensor while the AWC runs.
  2. Now you want to enable the low level sensor (AWC Out) which will be sensing water. As soon as you 'Turn On' this sensor the pump it's controlling should turn on and water will start draining. If your sensor turns the pump on when no water is sensed, aka backwards, you need to go to the sensors 'Connector' and change the 'Reverse' option.
  3. Now you add a 'Wait' period to your macro, this is the longest you want you drain pump to run and should turn off your pump even if the lower sensor fails. The idea is the macro allows the drain system to run for a maximum of 300 seconds or whatever you choose. The next step won't run until this 'Wait' period expires.
  4. Now you 'Turn Off' the AWC Out sensor as it's no longer needed as your water has been drained. You could insert an extra step after this to turn off the actual drain pump, basically a make sure its off kind of thing.
  5. Now you 'Turn On' the AWC In sensor which is the high level sensor. Once this turns on it will startup the refill pump as it's not sensing any water. If your sensor turns the pump on when water is sensed, aka backwards, you need to go to the sensors 'Connector' and change the 'Reverse' option.
  6. Now you add another 'Wait' period, again this is the maximum you want the refill pump to run and should be set longer than it typically takes to refill your tank as you want the sensor to turn the pump off but obviously not long enough to cause a flood if the high level sensor failed. The next step won't run until this 'Wait' period expires.
  7. Now you can add a 'Step' to 'Turn Off' the high level sensor as the water change is complete. You could insert an extra step after this step to turn off the actual refill pump, basically a make sure its off kind of thing.
  8. And finally if you do have an ATO sensor setup as well you can turn this back on so your ATO will run as normal again.
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Hope this helps, you might have to read it a few times as I typically need to rewrite things about 3 times before others can understand my gibberish. :)

The important thing to remember is the above represents running the macro manually. To run this macro via a timer you need to create the 'Steps' in reverse and set 'Reversible' to 'Yes', don't forget this or you will be chasing your tail.
thank you @robsworld78 , I have followed your thread for a long time, since from iAqua in the planted tank forum https://www.plantedtank.net/forums/...ch-interface-aquarium-controller-arduino.html, which until now my controller is still running well.
 

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Hello, I need a help to properly configure Reef-pi

on https://github.com/reef-pi/drivers I can found the PH-DRIVER to use ADS1115 for my PH probe.

i follow these steps:

Adding the ADS1115
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Adding the Analog input (i can use only the 0 input on the board)
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Adding the inputs in the PH tab
adding ph.png

But i have only the 404 error
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there is something i miss? there are other documentations I cannot found? @Ranjib any suggestion?
 
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Hello, I need a help to properly configure Reef-pi

on https://github.com/reef-pi/drivers I can found the PH-DRIVER to use ADS1115 for my PH probe.

i follow these steps:

Adding the ADS1115
ads1115.png

Adding the Analog input (i can use only the 0 input on the board)
analog input.png

Adding the inputs in the PH tab
adding ph.png

But i have only the 404 error
error.png


there is something i miss? there are other documentations I cannot found? @Ranjib any suggestion?
Did you reload reef-pi after enabling ph capability ?
 

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Yes.. you can use the reef-pi dB command against system bucket to update the ssl settings, check troubleshooting docs for details. It will involve stopping reef-pi and editing Json file.

Https shou,d not be troublesome, may be we can debug that bit,

Eh it still doesn't work properly from linux using any chrome based browser, I did a little digging the other night and it appears chrome wants to have the subject alternate name set in the certificate. It's on my list to troubleshoot a little more and figure out the issue, FF works fine but I get a cert error in any chrome based browser, e.g., opera, chromium, chrome etc...It's an interesting thing since it will connect via android on chrome, its just the linux clients that are different.
 

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New here, but want to say I really appreciate all the info and guidance provided on this thread. Just built my first pi controller (build thread coming) and so far the process is going well! Looking for input on a next possible step - I have one of the new kessil 360x lights which (unfortunately for diy) uses USB-C rather than the old 10-v input to control the intensity and spectrum signals. I'd love to figure out a way to build a pwm light controller for it, maybe by using an adafruit usb-c breakout board, but maybe this is a task for an engineer.

I emailed Kessil and they said "At this moment this is confidential and the pin layout and control schema for K-Link is not open to the public. I have passed this feedback on to our engineering team for consideration"
 

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New here, but want to say I really appreciate all the info and guidance provided on this thread. Just built my first pi controller (build thread coming) and so far the process is going well! Looking for input on a next possible step - I have one of the new kessil 360x lights which (unfortunately for diy) uses USB-C rather than the old 10-v input to control the intensity and spectrum signals. I'd love to figure out a way to build a pwm light controller for it, maybe by using an adafruit usb-c breakout board, but maybe this is a task for an engineer.

I emailed Kessil and they said "At this moment this is confidential and the pin layout and control schema for K-Link is not open to the public. I have passed this feedback on to our engineering team for consideration"

thanks for confirming my choice on getting an older WE Kessil instead of the x :) At this point I want to make everything work with Reef-Pi if I can :)

@Ranjib any thoughts on how to tackle wavemakers? I don’t mind getting my hands dirty in some code, but also don’t want to reinvent the wheel/tread on toes if you guys already have plans/have it sorted already.
 
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New here, but want to say I really appreciate all the info and guidance provided on this thread. Just built my first pi controller (build thread coming) and so far the process is going well! Looking for input on a next possible step - I have one of the new kessil 360x lights which (unfortunately for diy) uses USB-C rather than the old 10-v input to control the intensity and spectrum signals. I'd love to figure out a way to build a pwm light controller for it, maybe by using an adafruit usb-c breakout board, but maybe this is a task for an engineer.

I emailed Kessil and they said "At this moment this is confidential and the pin layout and control schema for K-Link is not open to the public. I have passed this feedback on to our engineering team for consideration"
I am sorry to say that I have nothing to help you with a360x for the moment. I don't know what protocol it uses , there's no doc or any other code to understand the details :-(
 
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thanks for confirming my choice on getting an older WE Kessil instead of the x :) At this point I want to make everything work with Reef-Pi if I can :)

@Ranjib any thoughts on how to tackle wavemakers? I don’t mind getting my hands dirty in some code, but also don’t want to reinvent the wheel/tread on toes if you guys already have plans/have it sorted already.
For wave makers, I believe we have most things needed on the software side,, we have to sort out the pump specific circuit and then may be polish the UI a bit. Here is what I would do if I'm in your shoe:

- First decide on a pump, e,g. mp10 or gyre or jebao
- Understand its operating voltage and the type of driver needed. Most pumps operate at 24v and uses bemf/bldc drivers. You might be able to repurpose the existing wavemaker controller or worst case buy one. Drok bdlc driver will cost around 25$ on amazon
- Hook everything up and test with reef-pi by treating the pump as a light. If we can control the pump speed with light intensity slider.. that's enough
- Use random or composite profile for setting up alternating or reef crescent style pump profile. Do this with API (since those profiles are not supported by UI yet) and treating the pump as light. I can provide the necessary instructions.
- If everything goes well,, I'll make sure to add software features to streamline this (docs, UI support for random/composite profile, and may be dedicated wave maker module)
 
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New here, but want to say I really appreciate all the info and guidance provided on this thread. Just built my first pi controller (build thread coming) and so far the process is going well! Looking for input on a next possible step - I have one of the new kessil 360x lights which (unfortunately for diy) uses USB-C rather than the old 10-v input to control the intensity and spectrum signals. I'd love to figure out a way to build a pwm light controller for it, maybe by using an adafruit usb-c breakout board, but maybe this is a task for an engineer.

I emailed Kessil and they said "At this moment this is confidential and the pin layout and control schema for K-Link is not open to the public. I have passed this feedback on to our engineering team for consideration"
Welcome to reef2reef :)
 
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For wave makers, I believe we have most things needed on the software side,, we have to sort out the pump specific circuit and then may be polish the UI a bit. Here is what I would do if I'm in your shoe:

- First decide on a pump, e,g. mp10 or gyre or jebao
- Understand its operating voltage and the type of driver needed. Most pumps operate at 24v and uses bemf/bldc drivers. You might be able to repurpose the existing wavemaker controller or worst case buy one. Drok bdlc driver will cost around 25$ on amazon
- Hook everything up and test with reef-pi by treating the pump as a light. If we can control the pump speed with light intensity slider.. that's enough
- Use random or composite profile for setting up alternating or reef crescent style pump profile. Do this with API (since those profiles are not supported by UI yet) and treating the pump as light. I can provide the necessary instructions.
- If everything goes well,, I'll make sure to add software features to streamline this (docs, UI support for random/composite profile, and may be dedicated wave maker module)
Just wanted to highlight on this topic, that the pwm output -> wavemaker part is still not sorted out. Rest is not a big deal. We have some idea how to do it (BEMF/BDLC drivers) but never tested. Hence that's the unknown we have to tackle.
 

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For wave makers, I believe we have most things needed on the software side,, we have to sort out the pump specific circuit and then may be polish the UI a bit. Here is what I would do if I'm in your shoe:

- First decide on a pump, e,g. mp10 or gyre or jebao
- Understand its operating voltage and the type of driver needed. Most pumps operate at 24v and uses bemf/bldc drivers. You might be able to repurpose the existing wavemaker controller or worst case buy one. Drok bdlc driver will cost around 25$ on amazon
- Hook everything up and test with reef-pi by treating the pump as a light. If we can control the pump speed with light intensity slider.. that's enough
- Use random or composite profile for setting up alternating or reef crescent style pump profile. Do this with API (since those profiles are not supported by UI yet) and treating the pump as light. I can provide the necessary instructions.
- If everything goes well,, I'll make sure to add software features to streamline this (docs, UI support for random/composite profile, and may be dedicated wave maker module)

Awesome! I’ve got a couple of Jebao’s that I can modify to control via 0-5v, so hardware is easy enough.

If you can give some pointers to the API on the crescent/alternating patterns I should be good to take a crack at it.

Also happy to help out with docs or anything you want to point me at.

Thanks again! This is a great project, super impressed on both where it is today and what the future holds. Really appreciate your efforts on it :)
 

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@Ranjib

I would like to know if it's possible to integrate in reef-pi:

1) tuya drivers for smart plugs.
In the case there are different drivers for each plug /and it would impossible to create tons of drivers!!!), we have to consider that Tuya wifi smart plugs can easily flashed.
Is it possibile to choose only one firmware of a single smart plug to flash in Tuya smart plugs and implement that kind of "generic" driver in reef-pi?
To better understand what I say, check here https://github.com/reef-pi/reef-pi/issues/642 what philkry commented on 19 of march 2019.

2) Aquatlantis (easy led and easy led 2.0) ramps.
This kind of led lamp are very used in Europe.

Thank you in advance for your answers.
 
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@Ranjib

I would like to know if it's possible to integrate in reef-pi:

1) tuya drivers for smart plugs.
In the case there are different drivers for each plug /and it would impossible to create tons of drivers!!!), we have to consider that Tuya wifi smart plugs can easily flashed.
Is it possibile to choose only one firmware of a single smart plug to flash in Tuya smart plugs and implement that kind of "generic" driver in reef-pi?
To better understand what I say, check here https://github.com/reef-pi/reef-pi/issues/642 what philkry commented on 19 of march 2019.

2) Aquatlantis (easy led and easy led 2.0) ramps.
This kind of led lamp are very used in Europe.

Thank you in advance for your answers.
reef-pi 3.0 introduced HAL which should make adding new driver pretty easy. As of now I have written shelly, dli web powerswitch and couple of other drivers. If you know the Tuya firmware's API then that will be our starting point. I can assist, but testing these things are bit harder for me since I don't physically use them. Most of my equipment worked without custom firmware. Shelly is opensource, which makes it very appealing in particular (and I think they are available in EU). I would avoid custom firmware support in cases where mainlining is a known impossible (i.e. the feature in consideration is explicitly called out as wont be supported by the original manufacturer). For rest of the use cases, it should be kosher. Tuya is very popular among the home automation folks, I would definitely lend a hand. I'll be landing the mqtt integration soonish..

Same goes for the light. If you have any document/resources on how to control it , that will be starting point. We are likely need to sort out the circuit details. I dont think there will be any software work. We may do some frequency tuning on the software side.. but generally, most of the light controls involve building the control circuit.

Thank you for taking the time to provide such specific feedback. I would really like to improve reef-pi user experience for the EU users
 

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How can I use HAL to add new drivers?
I'm totally unable to create software or program anything.... I'm just an user!!! lol

For the lights... I use Aquatlantis Luminus controller ( https://www.aquatlantis.com/en/products/luminus.html/ ).... I don't know anything else...
It's quite difficult to have document/resources for commercial items! :-(

I'm to thank you for your support and... patience!!!
 

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