Timed doser not turning off.

[phasezero]

Am I missing something here with my timer setup. Reef-pi is controlling a Kasa hs-300 power strip. The reef pi can turn the Doser on and off just fine and obviously it can start the Doser using the timer, but I went to check to see if it turned off after 18 minutes but it was still running after about 25 minutes.

 

[Ranjib]

Thank you for reporting this. I'll try to reproduce this. Most timers i run in the actual builds are generally just turn on or off (like nightly skimmer on/off). The code we test with uses 60 second wait and turn off example, and i just ran it without any issue. I ve set it to 18min and get back to you if it worked or not.
Meanwhile, do you see anything in your reef-pi logs during that time(journalctl -fu reef-pi.service), for me it appears like

23:05:05 timer subsystem. Executing module  equipment element 4
23:05:05 Equipment: Skimmer On: true
.... lots of other stuff
23:06:05 Equipment: Skimmer On:false
23:06:05 timer subsystem. Executing module  equipment element 4 reversed

do you see something like this? you should be able to see the sentence like

"09:15:00 Equipment: Alkalinity Doser On:true"
"09:33:00 Equipment: Alkalinity Doser On:false"

 

[Ranjib]

@phasezero its working on my setup, just validated\

2022/01/20 23:14:00 timer subsystem. Executing module  equipment element 4
2022/01/20 23:14:00 Equipment: Skimmer On: true
2022/01/20 23:32:00 Equipment: Skimmer On: false
2022/01/20 23:32:00 timer subsystem. Executing module  equipment element 4 reversed

let me know if you can spot the logs, or some other error (network/kasa?). Make sure that timer is enabled

 

[phasezero]

@phasezero its working on my setup, just validated\

2022/01/20 23:14:00 timer subsystem. Executing module  equipment element 4
2022/01/20 23:14:00 Equipment: Skimmer On: true
2022/01/20 23:32:00 Equipment: Skimmer On: false
2022/01/20 23:32:00 timer subsystem. Executing module  equipment element 4 reversed

let me know if you can spot the logs, or some other error (network/kasa?). Make sure that timer is enabled

Thank you for the response. So I installed reef pi 5.0 and started fresh and I thought everything was working fine. Except it started doing it again except this time it would repeated keep switching back on all on its own. I would switch the equipment off, close the browser, then a load the reef pi page again and it’s already switched back on. I decided to screen cap my phone to show the behavior. At this point I don’t feel comfortable relying on this setup for dosing so I pulled it for now.
Nothing shows up in the logs or errors during all of this. No timers are setup in kasa. Timer is set for 1500. I happen to check the doser around 1530 when I discovered the odd behavior.

 

[phasezero]

I posted the phone capture on YouTube.


Video starts with the doser mysteriously switched on.
00:14 I switch it off
01:04 I close out reef pi
01:18 I load reef pi again and it’s switched back on already. Check logs and errors.

 

[phasezero]

Looks like I there was a firmware update that my power strips needed. I’m hoping it fixes the issue. I may just put some rodi or highly diluted alk solution before I trust it fully. Although if the reef pi can’t check the status of kasa power strips then wouldn’t it just appear off on reef pi the whole time?