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

[Bigtrout]

I'm loving my ReefPi (can't wait for 3.0 and pH).

With Adafruit IO....my temp probes are updating, but my ATO graph isn't. On my ReefPi dashboard it is updating properly. But adafruit says it hasn't gotten any data. I have one error entry related to it:

Post https://io.adafruit.com/api/v2/dmolavi/feeds/rpisump-reading/data: dial tcp: lookup io.adafruit.com on 8.8.8.8:53: dial udp 8.8.8.8:53: connect: network is unreachable

Which appears to be DNS related. I'd think my temp feed would be impacted as well, but it isn't.

Any ideas?

Edit...

I just readded the feed to IO and this error popped up in ReefPi

Apr 6 07:56:35

{"error":"not found - that is an invalid URL, please check the API documentation at https://io.adafruit.com/api/docs to make sure your URL is correct"}

I'm guessing we're sending to the wrong listener...

How many adafruit feeds are you sending? A free account only gets 10 feeds and anything over that causes weird errors because adafruit ignores the extra ones. There is no way to select which feeds you send, and reef pi automatically makes them. I think 3.0 will address this.

Also the network unreachable errors sometimes are caused by things beyond your control between you and adafruit. I notice them occasionally, but they coincide with seeing unrecoverable errors on my cable modem, so I know its my ISP

 

[dmolavi]

How many adafruit feeds are you sending? A free account only gets 10 feeds and anything over that causes weird errors because adafruit ignores the extra ones. There is no way to select which feeds you send, and reef pi automatically makes them. I think 3.0 will address this.

Also the network unreachable errors sometimes are caused by things beyond your control between you and adafruit. I notice them occasionally, but they coincide with seeing unrecoverable errors on my cable modem, so I know its my ISP

Just 5.

Figured it out. Had a space in the name.

 

[Ranjib]

Can anyone help with this error? I unplugged everything to organise all of my cables. After plugging everything back in and powering on I am getting these errors.
None of my timers are working now either. As far as I can tell I have got everything plugged back in. Manually turning equipment on and off works as expected.

This is only ui error, it’s not indicating any controller or adafruit.io errors. You can clear them and it should be ok. The actual error means the usage data for some items is not found , generally it’s used by the charting features , and generally the usage data some time takes a while to appear. Do you have anything under configuration-> error section?

 

[Ranjib]

Heading for reefapalooza, day already started with a good news. Pi 4 is landing soon, it will have 30 more gpio, more cpu speed, more ram, Emmc (better than sad cards ) , and more goodies

 

[crusso1993]

Heading for reefapalooza, day already started with a good news. Pi 4 is landing soon, it will have 30 more gpio, more cpu speed, more ram, Emmc (better than sad cards ) , and more goodies

Have a great time at RAP!

That new Pi4 looks like it will be a powerhouse!

 

[Ranjib]

:-/ huge line in the venue

Just spotted Rico , big fan of his youth be videos . Most of it I got from jake Adams/ reef builder channel

Hours long wait ahead it seems, good thing rest of the family is at sea world

 

[Ranjib]

More updates from RAP,
The entry queue was long but very well managed and it moved pretty fast, I was able to get in less than 30min.
@revhtree was being naughty with the lights , but I still managed to take a photo of the man ,

And @Ryanbrs , I owe a lot to him. His YouTube videos are probably the second most useful resource I used to learn reef keeping

I spoke to the folks at reeftronics , they make general purpose titration system. They are working on the api bits , and once that in place, it will be really cool to integrate it with reef-pi.

Alkatronic and another alkalinity monitoring system ,

Most of them uses some combination of dosing system and ph probes.
A new pump manufacturer ,looks very promising , it’s AC psu, dc motor , variable speed , still working on the us distributors,

Finally some awesome corals,

Pardon the blue tints , every vendor have made their light extremely blue to make the corals look good , meh .,

 

[crusso1993]

More updates from RAP,
The entry queue was long but very well managed and it moved pretty fast, I was able to get in less than 30min.
@revhtree was being naughty with the lights , but I still managed to take a photo of the man ,

And @Ryanbrs , I owe a lot to him. His YouTube videos are probably the second most useful resource I used to learn reef keeping

I spoke to the folks at reeftronics , they make general purpose titration system. They are working on the api bits , and once that in place, it will be really cool to integrate it with reef-pi.

Alkatronic and another alkalinity monitoring system ,

Most of them uses some combination of dosing system and ph probes.
A new pump manufacturer ,looks very promising , it’s AC psu, dc motor , variable speed , still working on the us distributors,

Finally some awesome corals,

Pardon the blue tints , every vendor have made their light extremely blue to make the corals look good , meh .,

Thanks for sharing with us!

Who manufactures that pump?

 

[Ranjib]

Thanks for sharing with us!

Who manufactures that pump?

 

[theatrus]

I can totally understand . I have been headsdown busy with company work for past couple of months . Lots of security and compliance work.

Same problem

 

[theatrus]

Heading for reefapalooza, day already started with a good news. Pi 4 is landing soon, it will have 30 more gpio, more cpu speed, more ram, Emmc (better than sad cards ) , and more goodies

That double row GPIO [emoji848]

To be fair, more CPU is the one thing that the Pi didn’t need, though eventually you’ll want to go AArch64 due to nothing else on the planet using a 32bit ARM core outside of the MCU market. Also more GPIOs without a real time core like the Beaglebone series is a wash to me. But then get off my lawn, etc etc

 

[Ranjib]

That double row GPIO [emoji848]

To be fair, more CPU is the one thing that the Pi didn’t need, though eventually you’ll want to go AArch64 due to nothing else on the planet using a 32bit ARM core outside of the MCU market. Also more GPIOs without a real time core like the Beaglebone series is a wash to me. But then get off my lawn, etc etc

The fpga should adress the real time computation needs, right ?

 

[crusso1993]

Thanks @Ranjib . That pump looks like it has some nice and different features. They are Australlian designed.

 

[Ranjib]

That double row GPIO [emoji848]

To be fair, more CPU is the one thing that the Pi didn’t need, though eventually you’ll want to go AArch64 due to nothing else on the planet using a 32bit ARM core outside of the MCU market. Also more GPIOs without a real time core like the Beaglebone series is a wash to me. But then get off my lawn, etc etc

I think this was an April fools joke that I took seriously :-(

 

[bishoptf]

Heading for reefapalooza, day already started with a good news. Pi 4 is landing soon, it will have 30 more gpio, more cpu speed, more ram, Emmc (better than sad cards ) , and more goodies

Woot, always looking for new hardware.

 

[DirtDiggler2823]

I'm loving my ReefPi (can't wait for 3.0 and pH).

With Adafruit IO....my temp probes are updating, but my ATO graph isn't. On my ReefPi dashboard it is updating properly. But adafruit says it hasn't gotten any data. I have one error entry related to it:

Post https://io.adafruit.com/api/v2/dmolavi/feeds/rpisump-reading/data: dial tcp: lookup io.adafruit.com on 8.8.8.8:53: dial udp 8.8.8.8:53: connect: network is unreachable

Which appears to be DNS related. I'd think my temp feed would be impacted as well, but it isn't.

Any ideas?

Edit...

I just readded the feed to IO and this error popped up in ReefPi

Apr 6 07:56:35

{"error":"not found - that is an invalid URL, please check the API documentation at https://io.adafruit.com/api/docs to make sure your URL is correct"}

I'm guessing we're sending to the wrong listener...

I get similar errors

 

[Bigtrout]

@Ranjib @Tom Bishop
@theatrus
I ran across this today and wonder if it can be of use to our reef pi installs...its called Log2Ram.
It writes the linux logs to ram and then once an hour writes to the sd card. This lengthens the sd cards life tremendously. Can this be installed with reef pi?
Maybe the code is something that can be borrowed so reef pi logs can be written the same way?
This is a bit out of my realm but thought id let the code gurus weigh in.

Here is the link
https://mcuoneclipse.com/2019/04/01...rd-lifetime-for-raspberry-pi-lorawan-gateway/

 

[bishoptf]

@Ranjib @Tom Bishop
I ran across this today and wonder if it can be of use to our reef pi installs...its called Log2Ram.
It writes the linux logs to ram and then once an hour writes to the sd card. This lengthens the sd cards life tremendously. Can this be installed with reef pi?
Maybe the code is something that can be borrowed so reef pi logs can be written the same way?

Here is the link
https://mcuoneclipse.com/2019/04/01...rd-lifetime-for-raspberry-pi-lorawan-gateway/

Raspbian already has limits and is built for less writes and I think @Ranjib and company has taking that into account already, that's my take. I like you want to put a simple backup process but I've had my hands full lately, last week I was appliance repair man (my dryer control board where 220v goes into it decided to melt down, glad my wife was at home when the smoke detectors went off) and auto mechanic, busy week.

My take is keep the important bits backed up and reload rasbian which is pretty quick and reload the important files and your back in business.

 

[speedstar]

Not sure if this bug has been reported, but with the weather warming I just got some texts of my fish tank over temperature, of course I am on vacation 1000 miles away. Anyhow the email states that it is running hot Current temp (81.275000) is out of acceptable range (76.75000) The bug is that is my heater set point not the fan/chiller.

 

[speedstar]

Not sure if this bug has been reported, but with the weather warming I just got some texts of my fish tank over temperature, of course I am on vacation 1000 miles away. Anyhow the email states that it is running hot Current temp (81.275000) is out of acceptable range (76.75000) The bug is that is my heater set point not the fan/chiller.

 

[Ranjib]

Not sure if this bug has been reported, but with the weather warming I just got some texts of my fish tank over temperature, of course I am on vacation 1000 miles away. Anyhow the email states that it is running hot Current temp (81.275000) is out of acceptable range (76.75000) The bug is that is my heater set point not the fan/chiller.

I need little help understanding this. You have not setup any upper threshold , which is why you don’t expect any alert if the Temperature goes above any particular value, only the lower threshold that’s matter ? It will be very helpful if you can share a screeenshot of your temperature on troller configuration