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My wife and I have had terrariums with frogs for a long time, but last year she got me my first nano-reef tank setup; I had been wanting a saltwater tank my whole life. I am a software engineer and I had been working on a pi project to monitor a few sensors and control some smart plugs for home automation projects. With my new reef tank in hand, I quickly started testing my controller on my reef tank. I now have this controller running our reef tank, frog tank and I have some friends using them to monitor and control outdoor ponds.
I know there are a lot of raspberry pi reef tank controllers out there, but mine takes a little simpler electronics approach. I am a software guy and while I know a fair share about electronics I really wanted to keep the soldering part simple. I am not very good at that part . I also wanted to use smart home components to help make things a little less tethered. I use smart plugs and smart strips to control the functions I need to, such as turning on/off lights, pumps, etc. I currently only monitor air temp, air humidity, and water temp. I might add more sensors in the future, but I find this is generally enough if I do my regular tank maintenance.
Again I know there are lots of pi reef projects out there so I am simply making this post to see it there is any interest in a bit different approach. Most of my software is open source, all expect for some of the UI components and could be open source if there is any interest in this approach.
If there is interest I can post the components needed and make the code available.
I will post some pictures to give an idea of what I have built.
I know there are a lot of raspberry pi reef tank controllers out there, but mine takes a little simpler electronics approach. I am a software guy and while I know a fair share about electronics I really wanted to keep the soldering part simple. I am not very good at that part . I also wanted to use smart home components to help make things a little less tethered. I use smart plugs and smart strips to control the functions I need to, such as turning on/off lights, pumps, etc. I currently only monitor air temp, air humidity, and water temp. I might add more sensors in the future, but I find this is generally enough if I do my regular tank maintenance.
Again I know there are lots of pi reef projects out there so I am simply making this post to see it there is any interest in a bit different approach. Most of my software is open source, all expect for some of the UI components and could be open source if there is any interest in this approach.
If there is interest I can post the components needed and make the code available.
I will post some pictures to give an idea of what I have built.