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reef-pi 1.0 release

Ranjib Dey

Ranjib Dey

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Hello Bay Are Reefers,
I am excited to announce the immediate availability of first public release of reef-pi, a DIY opensource reef tank controller based on Raspberry Pi. Over the past one year reef-pi several community reefers have built and provided valuable feedback to improve this project, and currently it offers following features
  1. Equipment control (power bar) and timers [upto 16 outlets and any number of timers]
  2. LED light control (day light cycle)
  3. Auto Top Off (using photoelectric sensor or float switches)
  4. Temperature control
  5. A dashboard of all the above-mentioned features and alerting.
Following is a screenshot of reef-pi dashboard
dashboard.png


Detailed build instruction and documentation can be found here: http://reef-pi.com
best
ranjib
 
If you ever want to build an Alkalinity-Tracker into that, send me a PM.
Not a direct alkalinity "measurement" per se, but something fairly crude that tells if your Alk goes up/down too much.
Which is really all you need.

Back when I was on a DIY-Controller kick, I had a decent plan for one, but never got around to it.
Of course, plan != working.
 
Ranjib Dey said:
Hello Bay Are Reefers,
I am excited to announce the immediate availability of first public release of reef-pi, a DIY opensource reef tank controller based on Raspberry Pi. Over the past one year reef-pi several community reefers have built and provided valuable feedback to improve this project, and currently it offers following features
  1. Equipment control (power bar) and timers [upto 16 outlets and any number of timers]
  2. LED light control (day light cycle)
  3. Auto Top Off (using photoelectric sensor or float switches)
  4. Temperature control
  5. A dashboard of all the above-mentioned features and alerting.
Following is a screenshot of reef-pi dashboard
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Detailed build instruction and documentation can be found here: http://reef-pi.com
best
ranjib
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Congrats!
 
rygh said:
If you ever want to build an Alkalinity-Tracker into that, send me a PM.
Not a direct alkalinity "measurement" per se, but something fairly crude that tells if your Alk goes up/down too much.
Which is really all you need.

Back when I was on a DIY-Controller kick, I had a decent plan for one, but never got around to it.
Of course, plan != working.
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I'll keep you posted. I have pH, doser, wave maker planned up for 2.0 release (will have two milestone, 2018 Makerfaire & X-Mas). Then I'll try to take a stab at Alk, I know certain ways to do that, but I need the doser module nailed first. Alk/Ca monitoring will involve automating the titration bits, which in turn involves a doser/peristaltic pump. I know we can get a hacked up version going quicker, but I want to be throrough, come up with something reliabile and maintainable, and back it up with proper docs and bill of materials.Hopefully the community will also grow a bit more by then.
 
Out of curiosity how are you detecting/changing(?) power cycles on your equipment? You say power bar, but is this just one of the "name brand" (Neptune, etc) power bars that you hack with the Pi?
 
sfsuphysics said:
Out of curiosity how are you detecting/changing(?) power cycles on your equipment? You say power bar, but is this just one of the "name brand" (Neptune, etc) power bars that you hack with the Pi?
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its a DIY powerbar. Which is basically a wooden housing with bunch of receptacles mounted and a relay. The realy in turn is controlled by Raspberry Pi. The reef-pi software provides timer functionalities , and temperature controller style equipment on/off

timer.png
 
RandyC said:
What about this?

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2935?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrqaLiqeu2AIVyIh-Ch37PwB6EAQYASABEgLxp_D_BwE
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I have used the single outlet version of these. They are good. But very inconvenient, you'll have wires connected to them. The single ones are particularly interesting, you can stick a 10$ pi zero and have a controllable (digital timer, web interface etc) outlets.
The one that @Mark B suggested is better. I am looking for something wallmounted/hob style.. not something that i can mount inside my stand., since its relatively small, 29G biocube stand.

I am not very sure if its too risky for me. My tanks are nano or pico, and I really dont have way too many equipments. Each tank is powered by separate outlet/powerstrip al together. Some equipments (like LED) are not at all connected to the controller unit. I am looking for mostly DC equipment in future (like dc returns,wave makers etc), and I think I can just do away with something similar to a compute SMPS.. we'll see. for the time being something similar to what mark shared is my first choice. I am hacking with this one, as we speak

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Tripp-L...rve-Energy-Surge-Protector-TLP76MSG/203796169
 
rygh said:
If you ever want to build an Alkalinity-Tracker into that, send me a PM.
Not a direct alkalinity "measurement" per se, but something fairly crude that tells if your Alk goes up/down too much.
Which is really all you need.

Back when I was on a DIY-Controller kick, I had a decent plan for one, but never got around to it.
Of course, plan != working.
Click to expand...

I do like logical operator symbols :)
 
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