Seneye reef - windows 10 stick PC.

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Hey everybody!
I have heard of people using a windows 10 PC stick to use instead of buying the expensive seneye hub.
I am wondering which models people have used and if they were successful.
Thanks.
Paul.
Here's a picture to look at for your time.
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I'm using a Terryza mini PC for mine. Had it on there for about a month and a half, no issues.

Here's a post I had on it in another thread.

 
I'm using a Terryza mini PC for mine. Had it on there for about a month and a half, no issues.

Here's a post I had on it in another thread.

Thanks! I was looking at the little stick ones but for like 30 dollars more this one looks alot better!
 
running a GUZILA Fanless Mini PC,Intel x5-Z8350 HD Graphics Mini Computer,Windows 10 64-bit,DDR3L 2GB/32GB eMMC/4K/2.4G/5G WiFi/BT 4.2
 
I'm using my Seneyes with a RaspberryPi 3b running Linux + Seneye SUD Driver + Home Assistant. Data skips the Seneye Cloud altogether and goes directly into my own SQL database via Home Assistant, which I use as my aquarium controller.
 

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I'm using my Seneyes with a RaspberryPi 3b running Linux + Seneye SUD Driver + Home Assistant. Data skips the Seneye Cloud altogether and goes directly into my own SQL database via Home Assistant, which I use as my aquarium controller.
Is there something extra for the extra parameters? Can't seem to find it anywhere other than the basic model. Maybe I'm missing something
 
Is there something extra for the extra parameters? Can't seem to find it anywhere other than the basic model. Maybe I'm missing something
Oh, sorry, my dashboard might have confused you if you're not so familiar with Seneye.

Seneye only truly measures NH3 Ammonia and pH and Temp and Light Spectrums (if you have the Reef function activated.) If you use the Seneye Software or Seneye Web Server, they make some guesstimate calculations for NH4 and O2, but those additional values are not truly measured. Seneye does not measure Alkalinity, Nitrate, or Phosphate, etc.

Using the native Seneye driver support that is now built into Home Assistant as an integration, these "guestimate values" Seneye provides in their own software are not generated in our software. We had a discussion about replicating these guestimate functions for O2 and NH4, but we realized there wasn't much value to the way Seneye was doing it as they are guestimate values and not necessarily accurate, so noone undertook the effort to code it.

On my dashboard in the image above, the pH and Ammonia NH3 values are taken directly from the Seneye itself in real time. However, Alk, Nitrate, Calcium, Phosphate, Magnesium values come from other conventional titration testing sources. I was inspired to create this "unified display" of all values in Home Assistant from my own experiences and others I see, who have half their data sets in an Aquarium Controller (like pH, conductivity, etc) and the other half in some Aquarium Reef Tracking App on their phone or in the Cloud (i.e.- AquaCalc is what I used to use for tracking Titration test results, until a few years ago.) Using Home Assistant, I decided to merge both functions - tracking manually performed water tests & those that the aquarium controller measures automatically (via Temp probes, Seneye, etc) all into a single unified interface.

Ultimately, if myself or others end up figuring out how to make a DIY Automatic Tritation tester (not unlike the Neptune) for Calcium, Mag, Alk and other values, the user interface is already there - I just have to make minor changes to the existing code to take these measured values from the automatic testing device instead of the manual input box I use now.

This gives me a bit more flexibility to display my data the way I want to display it. Like for instance, I don't display any reference to Seneye itself on my own dashboard, but also added a function to compute the Redfield Ratio value automatically from manually inputted NO3 & PO4 tests, and convert Alkalinity PPM values of my Hanna Tester automatically to dKH values which I prefer, as well as the automatic conversion of ppb to ppm units for results from my Hanna Phosphorus ULM tester. These were functions not supported by the AquaCalculator App I used to use for years prior.

You can see both the manually input panel for titration tests (called "Reef Water Levels") in the first screenshot, as well as the "Reef Water Levels Ranges" which is the specification of target and acceptable ranges for said tests, which are used for creating the graphs.

The second and third images are just complete full screenshots of the Dashboard monitoring page, and the fourth is of my 8 channels of auto-doser control. Most of the remaining functionality on display here is not a function of Seneye itself, but demonstrates how capable Home Assistant is as an Aquarium Controller that features native Seneye support (as in, no Seneye Software or Seneye Web Server.)

The only time I have to use the Seneye Software is to register a new slide. But that's a process that generally takes less than 5 minutes, and once the slide is registered, I shut the Seneye Software & the Windows Virtual Machine I have it installed on back down and don't use it until it's time to register another new slide. But eventually, we hope to implement even the registration of new slides natively within Home Assistant.
 

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I'm using my Seneyes with a RaspberryPi 3b running Linux + Seneye SUD Driver + Home Assistant. Data skips the Seneye Cloud altogether and goes directly into my own SQL database via Home Assistant, which I use as my aquarium controller.
This is great. I tried to use usb/ip before realizing seneye limits that. Do you have a guide or walktrhu I can read to put this together? I'm an RPi noob.
 
This is great. I tried to use usb/ip before realizing seneye limits that. Do you have a guide or walktrhu I can read to put this together? I'm an RPi noob.

So I didn't write up a HOWTO step-by-step guide because everyone's aquarium setup and needs are different.
But I did document my own journey through the process of building my solution, and you can probably use that as a guide.

This is the main project thread (I'm cowboy on there):
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/going-to-next-level-of-aquarium-automation-whos-with-me/18486

This is the contribution by another Home Assistant user who coded the support for Seneye:
https://community.home-assistant.io...oving-the-need-for-a-seneye-web-server/101667

This is another thread I started dedicated to converting my old AquaMedic standalone Autodosers to being Smart Autodosers with WiFi connectivity so they can be controlled by Home Assistant or other automation controllers over the network.
https://community.home-assistant.io...rsion-to-home-assistant-control-project/59748

As far as getting started with Home Assistant, there's many good guides on the Net, in both text and videos:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=Getting+started+with+Home+Assistant

I try to answer all questions, but sometimes work keeps me very busy so patience is advised. :)
 
Wish i'd seen this last weekend lol
I wrote a simple NodeJS client to push the Seneye sensor readings out over MQTT. I'm running this on a Pi and was planning to complete the reset of the protocol (light etc) but I might fork the Home Assistant plugin and work on that....I'm just not very good at python :P

Anyway, this was a fun afternoon of coding. Code is here if it helps anyone else...
 
I'm using my Seneyes with a RaspberryPi 3b running Linux + Seneye SUD Driver + Home Assistant. Data skips the Seneye Cloud altogether and goes directly into my own SQL database via Home Assistant, which I use as my aquarium controller.
Hey bud how where you able to pull all the tests like that ? Is that the regular slide still?
 

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