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

[NeonRabbit221B]

Yes. Is mm touch screen? If it is then displaying reef pi would be better so you can make changes.

It depends on the monitor you use and thickness of the plastic but I don't hear many positive things about making it touch enabled. I was just going to use it to display a snap shot of each tank (along with weather, commute time ect) and sprint to my laptop if something looked off.

 

[ekopapers]

Hey guys thanks for all your work on this, I just set my reef up and I am using the michael lane goby hat as well as the viparspectra adapters that he makes, so everything was pretty plug and play. What I am struggling to figure out is how I actually set the lights up in the reef pi software. any help would be appreciated!

 

[stefanm]

Hey guys thanks for all your work on this, I just set my reef up and I am using the michael lane goby hat as well as the viparspectra adapters that he makes, so everything was pretty plug and play. What I am struggling to figure out is how I actually set the lights up in the reef pi software. any help would be appreciated!

Are you using a phone or a computer?

I couldn't set mine up on a phone at all, but it was a doddle on a computer, once set up you can edit on a phone.

 

[Mandelstam]

ok that makes sense. Do you know of a build thread that has used the 2 onboard pwm channels to control a single Kessil A160WE? The guide you quoted is awesome but it for 7 channels of lighting and I really only need 2 so the onboard channels are perfect and saves me the trouble of adding the PCA9685 chip. I'm hoping it simplifies the process significantly. Thanks for your help.

If you follow the guide just pretend that the PCA9685 board is your Pi, everything else should be the same just for two channels instead of seven in total. The Pi has its two PWM channels available on four pins where pin 12/13 are for channel PWM 0 and 13/19 is for channel PWM 1.

 

[Martin Lowry]

I googled 78m06 and it appears to be a voltage regulator. The rest is to electrical for me to understand. I would love for you to solve it though so I can copy.

After further investigation and downloading a magnifying glass app I managed to get a look at the MCU and it's a HOLTEK HT67F50. I Googled the data sheet it has a PWM output so I'm guessing that these lights may work with Reef-Pi. Now I have to figure out Voltage and current is required for each strip. They each have 60 LED's and require 36w. Next step is to meter the outputs on the programmer.

 

[drm2215]

If you follow the guide just pretend that the PCA9685 board is your Pi, everything else should be the same just for two channels instead of seven in total. The Pi has its two PWM channels available on four pins where pin 12/13 are for channel PWM 0 and 13/19 is for channel PWM 1.

Thank you for this. My one concern is that I am already using pin 12 for the power control circuit?

 

[ekopapers]

Are you using a phone or a computer?

I couldn't set mine up on a phone at all, but it was a doddle on a computer, once set up you can edit on a phone.

I am using my computer

 

[Mandelstam]

If you follow the guide just pretend that the PCA9685 board is your Pi, everything else should be the same just for two channels instead of seven in total. The Pi has its two PWM channels available on four pins where pin 12/13 are for channel PWM 0 and 13/19 is for channel PWM 1.

EDIT to above post: should be pin 12/18 for PWM 0.

 

[Mandelstam]

Thank you for this. My one concern is that I am already using pin 12 for the power control circuit?

You should be able to use pin 18 for pwm instead. Or you just use another pin for the power control, you have more options there to choose from.

 

[ekopapers]

So I am trying to get my viparspectra hooked up to my reefpi, I have the @Michael Lane goby hat and adapter, I am trying to make sure I wire it correctly, from the picture on the upper right jst connector is the yellow Chanel 2 the black(center) the ground and the red Chanel 1? After I get the wiring correct do I need to setup a pca9685 driver for it and then add a new jack calling pins 13,14 and listing the driver I created?

 

[Mikeneedsahobby]

So I am trying to get my viparspectra hooked up to my reefpi, I have the @Michael Lane goby hat and adapter, I am trying to make sure I wire it correctly, from the picture on the upper right jst connector is the yellow Chanel 2 the black(center) the ground and the red Chanel 1? After I get the wiring correct do I need to setup a pca9685 driver for it and then add a new jack calling pins 13,14 and listing the driver I created?

Yes. Pwm outputs on mike lane’s hat are controlled with 9685 driver.
then final step is to setup the light on light tab with the jack you created.

 

[ekopapers]

Yes. Pwm outputs on mike lane’s hat are controlled with 9685 driver.
then final step is to setup the light on light tab with the jack you created.

can you confirm if I have correctly labeled the pins that go out of the viparspectra adapter to the hat, specifically that the ground is the center pin on the adapter?

 

[Mikeneedsahobby]

can you confirm if I have correctly labeled the pins that go out of the viparspectra adapter to the hat, specifically that the ground is the center pin on the adapter?

i can’t say for sure but the Mars adapter looks very similar and there is diagram showing ground in the middle. Maybe send a dm to Mike lane. He has been very helpful to me before when I’ve asked questions.

 

[Yov]

Here's my original post

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

Ok I understand, how do you assign pin number to pi, so pin 8 cant be same as pin 8 on hat..?

www.reef2reef.com

If i understand it correctly i realy need t oreverse everything! so On = OFF to?
So what i want:

What i need to write if i run it with a timer:

 

[Yov]

@Ranjib is there an easy methode to just set 1 Light output and just copy this to my other light's ? I have quite some for the Terrarium. :p (also still hoping on random lightning/rain thing or triger system with real time information. )

 

[Des Westcott]

If i understand it correctly i realy need t oreverse everything! so On = OFF to?
So what i want:

What i need to write if i run it with a timer:

That looks to me like it will work.

Please let us know how it goes.

 

[Yov]

That looks to me like it will work.

Please let us know how it goes.

i wil! i wil not activate it yet as i am not at home and do not want my terrarium to flood ... XD

 

[erzwire]

We can tinker with it and salvage what's usable. It will be really cool if we can get reef-pi running in one of those. I dont know how many custom components it has, and how easy it will be to get those working with reef-pi. If its a lot of work, its probably not worth , since theres only a handful of these units present. But without testing out, its hard to say how much effort involved

have you had the chance to look into this? i also have a bricked vertex cerebra id love to run reef-pi on

 

[Ranjib]

have you had the chance to look into this? i also have a bricked vertex cerebra id love to run reef-pi on

Nope :-(

 

[Ranjib]

@Ranjib is there an easy methode to just set 1 Light output and just copy this to my other light's ? I have quite some for the Terrarium. :p (also still hoping on random lightning/rain thing or triger system with real time information. )

:-( . this is super easy with api/coding , but alas nothing fancy with the UI.