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

[Ranjib]

Nice.

 

[Ranjib]

not sure how I posted doubles

happens to me all the time. My macbook keyboard acts weird on the text box , specifically on r2r. I tend to go back , edit to remove the double posts , typos, wrong links etc

 

[Ranjib]

Outstanding! I’m just in awe right now....I’m just starting out with this and though I’ve had years of basic experience but nothing else... now I’m deciding on a career in computers too and don’t know which road to take. I’m trh8nking programming but not sure. Hopefully the classes I’ll b taking will help with me his as I’m really digging this new IoT and CoB craze happening. There’s so much cool stuff it’s overwhelming

I learned electronics through this.

 

[Somnifac]

I'm going to do some copy editing on the build guides on the site if that's OK. I've given the Lighting build guide a look and submitted some updates.

 

[Ranjib]

I'm going to do some copy editing on the build guides on the site if that's OK. I've given the Lighting build guide a look and submitted some updates.

Awesome. Thank you

 

[Ranjib]

@Somnifac I just merged and published your changes, they should be live now. Yesterday travis CI, the build/test service reef-pi uses, was down, which slowed down the development cycle. Its back now..

Thank you again for documentation helps, I could always use some help on that front

 

[Somnifac]

@Ranjib

You're welcome.

Question on the formatting: When I paste the raw contents, with the Markdown formatting in the document, into the Dingus widget on Daring Fireball all looks OK. Indentation and numbering are fine. There should be a total of 14 steps. On the live site, not so much. Indention seems to be off, and the numbering of the steps gets reset multiple times. The body of the doc refers to specific steps (i.e. "Once the Pi has rebooted, re-establish an SSH connection and log in using the new password you set in step 7A above."). With the numbering, this makes it impossible to refer to step "7A."

Thoughts?

 

[Ranjib]

@Ranjib

You're welcome.

Question on the formatting: When I paste the raw contents, with the Markdown formatting in the document, into the Dingus widget on Daring Fireball all looks OK. Indentation and numbering are fine. There should be a total of 14 steps. On the live site, not so much. Indention seems to be off, and the numbering of the steps gets reset multiple times. The body of the doc refers to specific steps (i.e. "Once the Pi has rebooted, re-establish an SSH connection and log in using the new password you set in step 7A above."). With the numbering, this makes it impossible to refer to step "7A."

Thoughts?

Couple of extra new lines and spaces needed. github markdown format is bit different from standard markdown format. The website markdown is converted to html (which goes inside the website finally) using 'hugo' . There are subtle differences between them (hugo and github viewer) which is why we see some delta. I'll take a look at it

 

[Somnifac]

OK. I attempted to maintain new lines, with blank lines between paragraphs, with a 4 space indention.

Editing existing documents will present far less of a problem. I will just be making minor content changes, rather than wholesale additions.

 

[philshel]

installed Reef-Pi tonight all went mostly good. I noticed a couple of small issues (spelling and one apparently outdated command). Should I post small issues like that or just ignore them for now?

 

[Ranjib]

installed Reef-Pi tonight all went mostly good. I noticed a couple of small issues (spelling and one apparently outdated command). Should I post small issues like that or just ignore them for now?

Yes absolutely. I would be grateful for every small feedback you may have for reef-pi. Certainly anything thats a clear mistake.
You can mention them here, or file a github issue ... all are fine

 

[Ranjib]

The next release is getting lot more code changes than I thought it would. Mostly due to dashboard charts, lot of ancillary codes around UI, presentation etc. and some backend code to provide the data for charts/UI.. not much of logic changes though. I am hoping the very first dashboard implementation of reef-pi will be useful enough to gather broader feedback, by no means I expect it to be a 'done' thing..

 

[Ranjib]

@Somnifac power bar build guide fixes are published, thanks for the edits

 

[philshel]

Yes absolutely. I would be grateful for every small feedback you may have for reef-pi. Certainly anything thats a clear mistake.
You can mention them here, or file a github issue ... all are fine

Apparently the latest Raspbian Jessie has replaced NTP with something new. The "sudo systemctl start ntp.service" has been replaced with "sudo systemctl start systemd-timesyncd". I found this info at https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=178763. In your documentation under the "Headless" section there is a small typo "sudo rapsi-config" should be "sudo raspi-config" note the dyslexic "ps". I have to admit to entering that three time before I doing a face slap. The last thing is nit-picking but it's the word "equipments". "Equipments" is not a word in english, equipment is a non-count noun and has no plural.

Hopefully some more parts will arrive today and I get the kessils ramping up and down.

 

[Ranjib]

Apparently the latest Raspbian Jessie has replaced NTP with something new. The "sudo systemctl start ntp.service" has been replaced with "sudo systemctl start systemd-timesyncd". I found this info at https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=178763. In your documentation under the "Headless" section there is a small typo "sudo rapsi-config" should be "sudo raspi-config" note the dyslexic "ps". I have to admit to entering that three time before I doing a face slap. The last thing is nit-picking but it's the word "equipments". "Equipments" is not a word in english, equipment is a non-count noun and has no plural.

Hopefully some more parts will arrive today and I get the kessils ramping up and down.

Thank you, I'll update the docs soon

 

[Aaron Smith]

Hey guys! I've been away for awhile in 3d printing land. I picked up a used 3d printer for $50 which was a cheap tronxy p802e. I rebuilt the thing and started printing perfect prints. So many posts have gone by I think I need a whole weekend to catch up. Anyhow I am glad to see that @Ranjib is still making great progress!

 

[Ranjib]

Hey guys! I've been away for awhile in 3d printing land. I picked up a used 3d printer for $50 which was a cheap tronxy p802e. I rebuilt the thing and started printing perfect prints. So many posts have gone by I think I need a whole weekend to catch up. Anyhow I am glad to see that @Ranjib is still making great progress!

I am super happy to see you back,.
I had a mini kossel, which I have gave away to one of my friend after I bacame father. It was so much fun
Are you planning to print any enclosure etc?

 

[Aaron Smith]

I am super happy to see you back,.
I had a mini kossel, which I have gave away to one of my friend after I bacame father. It was so much fun
Are you planning to print any enclosure etc?

If you send me a sketch I will work up a model for you and give it a go!

 

[Somnifac]

3D Printing enclosures is definitely something I'm interested in talking about.

I don't have a printer, but I have a coworker who would be willing to work with me on something like this. He has a couple of printers and likes working on projects like this, so I can make it work.

I figure that I will have to print an enclosure in multiple parts and weld it together due to its size. Another thought I have, that I'd mentioned before, is that I'm considering doing a 2 part enclosure: 1 for the Pi, Power Supply, auxiliary circuitry (5V to 10V converter for the lighting, etc) and a second for the 110v side (connected by a DB15 cable). Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Another thing I'm kicking around in my head is the power supply side. We need 5V for the Pi and other electronics (relays, PCA9685, etc), and 12V for the lighting controller. Has anyone considered just running a 12V supply with a 12v to 5v stepdown converter?

 

[Ranjib]

If you send me a sketch I will work up a model for you and give it a go!

I was just wondering. I use wooden case. I am not that great at sketchup/cad softwares :-( . I know there are handful of folks here who has experience in fabrication , may be one of them can lend a hand..