Reef-PI build thread, go big or go home

[Tristanzs]

Yes I've been manipulating the check interval as well from every 5 seconds to the default of 120 seconds.

 

[Tristanzs]

Anyone with ideas? Really wanted this phase of the build done today.

 

[Michael Lane]

Could you try checking the voltage on the appropriate pin while manually manipulating the float switch? You should see it switch between near 0 and ~3 volts. Also make sure you have the ATO configured for GPIO 18 and 27.

 

[Tristanzs]

Yup I'm dumb and was using wrong GPIO ports. Read on the schematic 12 and 13. Working like a charm now. Bro you just made my night.

 

[Michael Lane]

Easy mistake to make, especially with the various versions of rpi and GPIO schemes. Here's how I have my GPIO configured in case it helps in any way.

 

[Tristanzs]

Thanks again man, that should help quite a bit moving forward. I'm almost done really just waiting on a few parts and a price on the PH boards I'm wanting to utilize.

 

[Tristanzs]

Ok just so I don't make another simple mistake with my temp sensors, which GPIO pins are the three temp sensors associated with lol.

 

[Michael Lane]

That's a trick question!
It's wired to GPIO4, but it uses the 1-wire protocol. The temp sensors all share that bus.

 

[Tristanzs]

Ok so I'm clear I just setup all temp sensors as GPIO 4 and they will read individually because of the 1-wire protocol?

 

[Michael Lane]

You don't even need to set them up as GPIO 4, all you need to do is enable 1-wire protocol. See the Adafruit reef-pi guide if you need to enable it still.
https://learn.adafruit.com/reef-pi-installation-and-configuration/raspberry-pi-configuration

 

[Tristanzs]

Ok sweet I've already done that. I swear building my last computer was easier...

 

[Tristanzs]

My other hobby.

 

[Diamond1]

My other hobby.

That look like a beast of a computer.

 

[Tristanzs]

It's as close to top of the line as you can get without spending over 1k on a processor. It'll run anything in the world at very high settings and look like a cool mini fridge doing it. Needed a case that big to handle the dual water cooling loops that are utilizing radiators that hold 4 140mm fans each. It' also happens to have more programmable RGB than the manufacturer of the motherboard supports natively.

 

[Tristanzs]

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Looking into my dosing solution, would the power supply I have in my wish list be appropriate to power the 4 pumps?

 

[Tristanzs]

Just a small update, got my ULN2803 in the mail and soldered it inline to control the last 8 outlets. Finally received my connectors for the temp sensors and they aren't the correct type. Placed a new order tonight to replace them, this time I made sure and ordered ones that had prime shipping so no more waiting a month for parts. Went ahead and got 1 temp sensor working for testing purposes and everything seems fine I'll just need to attach a plug to it once they arrive. Still have dosing and my PH board to do but waiting on various things before I order more parts.

 

[Tristanzs]

Well I'm almost done I think, at least until my buddy gets around to 3d printing my custom enclosure. Small problem with my temp sensors however, they where fully functional and reading accurately until I unplugged them while the system was still running to mount the connector on the side of my box. Now I can't find either sensor. I've cleared all errors and rebooted a couple times. Checked to ensure I didn't damage the soldered parts while installing. Tried different ports on my hat. No idea why my sensors are no longer showing up. Also finally recieved my stand offs to mount the relays with, which had been bothering me since they are running 110.

 

[Bigtrout]

Did u hot plug and unplug with stereo jacks for the temp sensors? Thats the prob with stereo jacks they short the wrong things when plugging and unpluging.

Try deleting all temp sensors in reef pi, then reboot and rebuild ur temp sensors and see if that helps.

I think you can ssh into raspberry pi and see if the sensors are there with a command line...if they are present it just may be that hotplugging with stereo jacks may have took down ur pi and caused a data corruption

 

[Tristanzs]

I hot plugged with vnc connectors but yeah I just shut it down to install the permanent power plug in the box. I have already deleted all of the temp sensors in the reef pi. Perhaps shutting it down for an extended period and allowing all of the power to dissipate. If I did cause data corruption I guess I'll need to reinstall the OS and reef pi?

 

[Bigtrout]

Ssh into the pi and issue this command

ls /sys/bus/w1/devices/

It should list the sensors if the hardware is good

It should list the serial numbers of all devices connected as one wire
They will be listed as 28-xxxx where xxx is the serial numbers if thats ok then its probably a reef pi corruption issue