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

[ChrisNH]

I don't think that will work, that'll turn off the ato sensor and disable it. You can do a lot with them, start with simple macros to figure them out and go from there.

So the macro works great. It seems to turn off the sensor and disable the pump as I expected when I run it manually.

However, running it from another ATO sensor kills reef-pi a slow death. The log shows that there is a constant API call. ATO interface becomes unresponsive and I have to stop reef-pi and wipe the DB to recover.

My best guess is that ATO is still not hooked up to Macros despite having the option? Dunno.. its a pity, since if I run the macro it will disable the main ato and shut off the power to the pump. Just what I want in that scenario. I am not sure if I would need to disable the watch dog sensor too just to shut it all down (I did try to no avail) but its moot.

Well, that and an alert. I can't get alerts to work either. Alerts working, thanks.

 

[stefanm]

Hi, I need a little advice here.

Firstly my reef pi hardware is a total mess! I've used jumper wires which are proving highly unreliable, the sparkfun one are probably much better but very expensive, ultimately I would like to switch over to Michael Lane's boards, I've seen the V3 boards have the gerbers available but very much doubt I can solder the PCA 9685.

So I found this expansion shield which costs as much as 10 sparkfun jumpers...

What do you guys reckon?

My chow mein..

 

[stefanm]

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Hi, I need a little advice here.

Firstly my reef pi hardware is a total mess! I've used jumper wires which are proving highly unreliable, the sparkfun one are probably much better but very expensive, ultimately I would like to switch over to Michael Lane's boards, I've seen the V3 boards have the gerbers available but very much doubt I can solder the PCA 9685.

So I found this expansion shield which costs as much as 10 sparkfun jumpers...

What do you guys reckon?

My chow mein..

That board doesn't seem suitable, this one seems much better.

 

[GaryE]

Hi, I need a little advice here.

Firstly my reef pi hardware is a total mess! I've used jumper wires which are proving highly unreliable, the sparkfun one are probably much better but very expensive, ultimately I would like to switch over to Michael Lane's boards, I've seen the V3 boards have the gerbers available but very much doubt I can solder the PCA 9685.

So I found this expansion shield which costs as much as 10 sparkfun jumpers...

What do you guys reckon?

My chow mein..

Pffft..

 

[MikeSpike]

Thanks. But i cant see the instructions there for a clean install and maintaining my setup?

@Ranjib can you help me with this?

 

[Yov]

Soo... anybody got an idea why 14:07 is in between 11:46 and 12:28? Got this on al the graphs... have been playing with the names (remov spaces) and deleting ADAfruit feeds ... (got to much error's from this...)

Edit: Stil got the Adafruit error's (and lose temp sensor error)

 

[Michael Lane]

@Ranjib can you help me with this?

@MikeSpike I think the easiest way to upgrade reef-pi without rebuilding the entire rpi image would be to install reef-pi and then reset the database. This would not reset the logs, but all configuration would wiped and it would basically be a new reef-pi install.

I'd also recommend creating a back up of the SD card prior to taking these steps in case you need to quickly revert to the existing image.

Assuming you are using a pi 3, you can upgrade reef-pi with the following (based on release 3.4)

wget -c https://github.com/reef-pi/reef-pi/releases/download/3.4/reef-pi-3.4-pi3.deb
sudo dpkg -i reef-pi-3.4-pi3.deb

wget will download the new release, and dpkg will install the new release over your existing installation.

You can reset the database after those steps are completed. This is done by stopping reef-pi, deleting the database, and finally restarting reef-pi. I refer to the troubleshooting page when I need to remember where the db is located.

sudo systemctl stop reef-pi.service 
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/reef-pi/reef-pi.db 
sudo systemctl start reef-pi.service

 

[buddy.]

Has anyone automated their RODI storage with reef-pi?
I see there are products that will auto flush your filter that might be able to be plugged in to a reef-pi outlet and be controlled by a couple of float switches? My storage takes about a week to empty so the filter will still only be used once per week.

 

[Ranjib]

@Ranjib can you help me with this?

Check the troubleshooting guide, it has instructions on how to delete the database and do a clean installation. Let us know if you are stuck.

 

[AbjectMaelstroM]

Those of you making backups of your SD cards, what are you using to so it?

 

[ChrisNH]

Is there any way to make the dashboard graph have a “free scale” y axis like temp for pH?

 

[Yov]

@Ranjib is there a way to exclude something from the adafruit feed? for example, my lights get graphed on adafruid but i would prefere this not to happen. I got 6 differend light outputs and 4 temp readings... i get constant errors becous wel adafruit is only letting me save 10 feeds

 

[Des Westcott]

So the macro works great. It seems to turn off the sensor and disable the pump as I expected when I run it manually.

However, running it from another ATO sensor kills reef-pi a slow death. The log shows that there is a constant API call. ATO interface becomes unresponsive and I have to stop reef-pi and wipe the DB to recover.

My best guess is that ATO is still not hooked up to Macros despite having the option? Dunno.. its a pity, since if I run the macro it will disable the main ato and shut off the power to the pump. Just what I want in that scenario. I am not sure if I would need to disable the watch dog sensor too just to shut it all down (I did try to no avail) but its moot.

Well, that and an alert. I can't get alerts to work either. Alerts working, thanks.

Yes. I documented thins in one of my posts a little while ago. An ATO can only seem to work on Equipment. Even though you can choose a Macro, it doesn't work.

 

[Des Westcott]

Soo... anybody got an idea why 14:07 is in between 11:46 and 12:28? Got this on al the graphs... have been playing with the names (remov spaces) and deleting ADAfruit feeds ... (got to much error's from this...)

Edit: Stil got the Adafruit error's (and lose temp sensor error)

I had this happen to me and could not fix it. I eventually deleted the temp sensor and re-installed it from scratch.

 

[Des Westcott]

Is there any way to make the dashboard graph have a “free scale” y axis like temp for pH?

No. Unfortunately not (yet - I'm hoping)

 

[Ranjib]

Those of you making backups of your SD cards, what are you using to so it?

I just run a cron job that scp my reef-pi.db to another place. I had also used google drive in past.

 

[Ranjib]

No. Unfortunately not (yet - I'm hoping)

Not yet. We are planning to make some of those attributes customizable m under a broader theme of ui improvements

 

[Ranjib]

Yes. I documented thins in one of my posts a little while ago. An ATO can only seem to work on Equipment. Even though you can choose a Macro, it doesn't work.

:-/ . This is a bug then . Let me try to verify and report back. If it’s a bug we’ll get it fixed

 

[Ranjib]

@Ranjib is there a way to exclude something from the adafruit feed? for example, my lights get graphed on adafruid but i would prefere this not to happen. I got 6 differend light outputs and 4 temp readings... i get constant errors becous wel adafruit is only letting me save 10 feeds

Not yet :-/

 

[Des Westcott]

I just run a cron job that scp my reef-pi.db to another place. I had also used google drive in past.

I have at times wished there was an option to back up the database to an email address manually . Like somewhere under telemetry or Admin tabs Almost like sending a test alert email.