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

[Ranjib]

@Ranjib , how are we supposed to set up the alerts on the ATO now? If I turn on the alert, I get spammed with alerts, even though the threshold hasn't been passed.

That does not sound good, let me check if it’s a bug

 

[Dave's Reef]

Upgraded to 2.2, now to go and change the default stats

How do you do that and what did you set them at?

 

[Dave's Reef]

Hello hivemind,
I have cut a new release , 2.2 , builds are available in usual location: https://github.com/reef-pi/reef-pi/releases/tag/2.2

Highlight for this release are:
Features:
- ATO controller has now an option to automatically lock down when max usage threshold is breached and alert is triggered
- Stats retention across all modules (temperature, ato, health metric etc) are now configurable. By default its set to 1440 data points for current stats (a day worth of data at highest resolution assuming sensor is configured at 1 minute polling interval), and 720 data points for historical stats (30 days of data at hourly average).
Bugfixes:
- ATO usage alert was broken. Fixed now
- Dashboard layout for 1 column configuration was not proper, it was hardcoded for two column setup . Fixed now
- Timers were not showing up on macro tabs unless user have visited timer tabs. Fixed now

This releases (2.x series) are not from master (current development branch of reef-pi), as master has all new hal (hardware abstraction layer) changes with ph driver etc. These releases are derived from 2.0/2.1 code base with bugfixes and selected features cherry picked onto them. This is to not break API/database, which mean you wont get the new driver goodness (and all the untested bugs that comes with it), but you also will be able to upgrade without any issue.

I do not expect to cut many 2.x release in future, unless we have serious bugs. I'll start cutting 3.x alpha/beta releases from march., for the early tester on ph board.

Thank you for all the help you provide in this project, all of us deeply respect your feedback. For those of you dealing with the memory issue, try configuring the current and historical stats limit to a minimum (say 3 hours of current data, and 7 days of historical, which corresponds to 180 and 168 respectively), if this contains the memory usage, then it means we dont have a memory leak, and the memory usage is legitimate utilization of memory by the stats model. I;ll work on a better scheme to persist stats on disk.. we'll talk about that after the initial finding from tuning stats limits.

Also I'm not sure if anyone else is having this issue but when I go back to the dash after going to another screen all 6 of my things line up instead of 3 rows of 2 like it should be I have to refresh to get it to go back to normal.

 

[bishoptf]

How do you do that and what did you set them at?

You can find the settings on the telemetry tab ->configuration->telemetry:

 

[daveCB]

Yes. Mine as well. Could not decide if it was a feature or a bug.

 

[bishoptf]

Also I'm not sure if anyone else is having this issue but when I go back to the dash after going to another screen all 6 of my things line up instead of 3 rows of 2 like it should be I have to refresh to get it to go back to normal.

I've seen the same issue, just usually have to refresh, not sure whats made it act a little different, but the memory usage is much better.

 

[Dave's Reef]

You can find the settings on the telemetry tab ->configuration->telemetry:

Thank mine say 0 in both? What's a good setting to start with?
Thanks

 

[bishoptf]

Thank mine say 0 in both? What's a good setting to start with?
Thanks

Ranjib had this in the instructions:

Thank you for all the help you provide in this project, all of us deeply respect your feedback. For those of you dealing with the memory issue, try configuring the current and historical stats limit to a minimum (say 3 hours of current data, and 7 days of historical, which corresponds to 180 and 168 respectively), if this contains the memory usage, then it means we dont have a memory leak, and the memory usage is legitimate utilization of memory by the stats model. I;ll work on a better scheme to persist stats on disk.. we'll talk about that after the initial finding from tuning stats limits.

I've upped the current data value kept the seven day value.​

 

[Des Westcott]

I’m +1 on just going to disk, at least as an option. We already spill the reef pi log file to disk(c/o journald) and the telemetry database can be much smaller.

I would be happy if the info could be emailed to the same email address as my alerts and then purged.

 

[DirtDiggler2823]

That does not sound good, let me check if it’s a bug

I disabled alerting. Do you need any logs from me? I am enjoying that I don't have to reboot every week or so.

 

[b4tn]

I have a bad habit of waiting till my ATO starts making noise before changing out top off jugs. So sometimes my ATO May run out in the middle of the night and run till the morning when I hear the loud empty jug pumping air and swap jugs. Since I had alerts enabled since I started reef pi I probably have a months worth of 4+ hours ATO pump running. When the alert bug was fixed the same thing happened to me I think it picked up all those times in the past month and went nuts alerting me. I ended up turning it off as well.

 

[Bigtrout]

@Ranjib
A nice feature request may be to be able to choose which feeds get sent to adafruit io. A free account gets 10 feeds, it would make sense to be able to choose which feeds the user wants to send

 

[pickupman66]

I have a bad habit of waiting till my ATO starts making noise before changing out top off jugs. So sometimes my ATO May run out in the middle of the night and run till the morning when I hear the loud empty jug pumping air and swap jugs. Since I had alerts enabled since I started reef pi I probably have a months worth of 4+ hours ATO pump running. When the alert bug was fixed the same thing happened to me I think it picked up all those times in the past month and went nuts alerting me. I ended up turning it off as well.

Same here. Except my wife will wake before me and unplug it and not tell me. I just updated so I'm excited for this...

 

[pickupman66]

2 years apart

 

[bishoptf]

Such a deal I have for you, well maybe

I have a bunch of fans, these are not a normal computer fan but were used in a thin client, 5v .15A hydraulic bearing (really quiet), they seem to move some air and I was going to mount them on a board and possible use them for my summer time cooling for my nano tanks. I thought someone else may be interested in a few, just shoot me a PM and we can discuss further.


This is what I was thinking of making something similar - https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/tunze-aquawind-twin-aquarium-fan-7028-900.html

 

[Jean-Pierre Renaud]

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[Diamond1]

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I like that idea. I'm planning something like it with an old 12v HP cooling fan. With the same kind of fin design.

 

[theatrus]

Such a deal I have for you, well maybe

I have a bunch of fans, these are not a normal computer fan but were used in a thin client, 5v .15A hydraulic bearing (really quiet), they seem to move some air and I was going to mount them on a board and possible use them for my summer time cooling for my nano tanks. I thought someone else may be interested in a few, just shoot me a PM and we can discuss further.


This is what I was thinking of making something similar - https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/tunze-aquawind-twin-aquarium-fan-7028-900.html

How loud do those get? Blowers are great at pressure but usually suck at acoustics for the same volume of air.

 

[Reefology1]

Hi, can someone please give me the command to update to 2.2? thanks

 

[Ryan115]

When the dashboard is open, it will constantly pull reef-pi server to get latest data. This should caused some cpu utilization but should not impact memory ...

Then I am confused. Running for ~ 2 days now with no excess memory usage. The only thing that I have changed is not leaving the window open in my browser...