Hey everyone starting a reef pi build

[youngblood421]

I’m currently researching everything I’ll need to do a reef pi build for my 29 biocube. I would like to 3D print a housing for it (May skip that part) but I’m basically just interested in the reef pi to be able to tell temp, salinity, ph, control Steve’s led lights, and control my ATO smart ATO micro. I’ve noticed most of the builds are with the raspberry pi zero. I was going to try to use the latest one. Any direction and help will be appreciated

 

[oreo54]

Zero because it's cheap..........
It's just evolution...

the 3B is probably a better choice. But the Zero had some nice advantages, like half the cost, and half the power draw. But the 3B will be supported for longer.

I suppose you want any software changes.. Sure there will be some..
somewhere here in the 1/2 doz threads on "pi" there is some advice..

 

[youngblood421]

Zero because it's cheap..........
It's just evolution...


I suppose you want any software changes.. Sure there will be some..
somewhere here in the 1/2 doz threads on "pi" there is some advice..

Yeah the one I was reading had 547 pages of advise. Sometimes I guess there’s such thing as too much advise that complicates things lol

 

[Michael Lane]

Ranjib's guides on Adafruit are probably a good starting point. You shouldn't have much trouble with those goals, except for monitoring salinity. Everything else is already supported in reef-pi. In addition to the guides, I'd also recommend using a high quality SD card, setting up the watchdog timer, and considering the addition of a real time clock.

I'm sure you'll find more help if you have any specific questions.

 

[Auto-pilot]

I think the raspberry pi zero is a good choice. I've been working on my setup and it seems to be universally used with hats and other boards

 

[youngblood421]

I think the raspberry pi zero is a good choice. I've been working on my setup and it seems to be universally used with hats and other boards

I just have to figure out what hats are

 

[Auto-pilot]

I just have to figure out what hats are

https://reef-pi.github.io/additional-documentation/resources/ these are hats and different boards that people have made

 

[AquaRaider44]

Welcome and I wish you the best of luck!

IMO I would use the https://www.tindie.com/products/Ranthalion/ml-reef-pi-hat-v3/ if you don't like soldering your own hat together and definitely https://www.tindie.com/products/Ranthalion/isolated-ph-probe-interface-for-reef-pi/ I really wish I went with the pi hat as Michael Lane has amazing products I have 2 of his mars aqua lighting controllers and the ph board on my build which you can see in my signature or here https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/reef-pi-the-all-in-one-pi-challenge.592733/

He also provides amazing support!


Plus there is an amazing community supporting and developing and helping users out!

 

[youngblood421]

out of town but got my raspberry pi zero w and have been attempting to get everything configured. My computer itself is being very slow at installing the files for Raspbian I have the lite one but have since decided to get the desktop version instead so currently waiting on that to download. had issues remoting into the raspberry pi with putty but finally got that issue resolved.

 

[AquaRaider44]

out of town but got my raspberry pi zero w and have been attempting to get everything configured. My computer itself is being very slow at installing the files for Raspbian I have the lite one but have since decided to get the desktop version instead so currently waiting on that to download. had issues remoting into the raspberry pi with putty but finally got that issue resolved.

Unless your a Linux wizard that is about the hardest part is installing the software. Good luck with that and if you need help make sure to post.

 

[youngblood421]

my dang download speed on my computer is whats killing me.
I tried (ping google.com) and it stalled my pi but im about to just get the reef-pi installed

 

[AquaRaider44]

my dang download speed on my computer is whats killing me.
I tried (ping google.com) and it stalled my pi but im about to just get the reef-pi installed

What kind of internet speed do you normally have?

 

[youngblood421]

im at a rental house for a while but for some reason the past month my laptop download speed has been like 4 something at the most so files take forever on here to get going.

accidently installed reef-pi 2.0 by copy and paste. is that a big deal?

 

[AquaRaider44]

im at a rental house for a while but for some reason the past month my laptop download speed has been like 4 something at the most so files take forever on here to get going.

accidently installed reef-pi 2.0 by copy and paste. is that a big deal?

I wouldn't use 2.0 and I would recommend that you use the tutorials on setting up and installing everything https://learn.adafruit.com/reef-pi-installation-and-configuration

 

[AquaRaider44]

At least use the latest 2.4 and maybe even consider the 3.0 alpha 2 if you plan to use pH soon https://github.com/reef-pi/reef-pi/releases

 

[youngblood421]

how do I uninstall 2.0

 

[youngblood421]

At least use the latest 2.4 and maybe even consider the 3.0 alpha 2 if you plan to use pH soon https://github.com/reef-pi/reef-pi/releases

I was able to login to 2.0 I’ll switch it to 3.0 tomorrow when I get free time again. Glad I actually somewhat got it working though

 

[youngblood421]

I DO NEED HELP INSTALLING 3.0.o-pre-alpha-2-pi0

ive been using this code here
wget -c https://github.com/reef-pi/reef-pi/releases/download/3.0/reef-pi-3.0-pi0.deb

then I tried
wget -c https://github.com/reef-pi/reef-pi/...pre-alpha-2/reef-pi-3.0.0-pre-alpha-2-pi0.deb

neither said it worked

 

[AquaRaider44]

Use this for a pi 3
sudo apt-get remove -y --purge reef-pi
wget -c https://github.com/reef-pi/reef-pi/...pre-alpha-2/reef-pi-3.0.0-pre-alpha-2-pi3.deb
sudo dpkg -i reef-pi-3.0.0-pre-alpha-2-pi3.deb
sudo systemctl stop reef-pi.service
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/reef-pi/reef-pi.db
sudo systemctl start reef-pi.service

Use this for a pi 0
sudo apt-get remove -y --purge reef-pi
wget -c https://github.com/reef-pi/reef-pi/...pre-alpha-2/reef-pi-3.0.0-pre-alpha-2-pi0.deb
sudo dpkg -i reef-pi-3.0.0-pre-alpha-2-pi0.deb
sudo systemctl stop reef-pi.service
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/reef-pi/reef-pi.db
sudo systemctl start reef-pi.service

 

[AquaRaider44]

If you have any issues please post a screenshot of the output