On that note, I am hoping I can tame the noise of the stepper motor of the KAS with a high quality stepper driver. I know 3 separate people that got a freshly released commercial alkalinity tester with that pump and immediately got rid of it. The description was asking the lines of everyone in the house asking why a ufo is taking off in the living room.
I could use those too. I'm way behind you with my setup.Update, figured it out needed to increase my maximum data points to have it show me the data, so many knobs so much to learn. If anyone has any cheatsheets for grafana and what they have done with reefpi, let me know. Would love to see it etc...
You can set the graph color in 4.1 for PH and Temp, however, the color settings are not working for Temp right now. I set the PH chart to pink, no issues. @Ranjib is fixing the Temp chart issue.
I bought it on ebay : search for xkc-y26-NPN . Amazon also has them too. There seems to be 3 versions: NPN, PNP, and a relay. I guess you could make any one work with right logic and wiring just be sure to know it is 5V supply. I should note that I called this an optical sensor in my post but it IS NOT optical. It uses capacitive sense. Thick sludge layered on skimmer cup will trip it (like several months worth) but regular foam seems to not in my testing so far. I see DFRobot has the PNP version for a good price https://www.dfrobot.com/product-2109.html
Wow . Every time I see these long macros I feel just wow, I could have never thought reef-pi will come this far , few years back when I was trying to blink and led.Reef-Pi controlled Jebao Wave Maker
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I have 3 Jebao WM and I wanted to override their native controller to generate random flow in the tank. I researched the subject and came with no clear solution. There is plenty of data on return pump control, however the situation is different with WM as there is variable modes with different wave forms.
I bought a used WM for this project and as you see from the pic there is a central controller and 3 buttons (speed/feed, Mode/night, and WiFi link/lock), on the back there is the WiFi chip.
The 3 wire going out for the motor are positive, negative, and yellow one for the signal. The voltage on the + and – wires is always fixed at 24V. The yellow wire changes from 3.6 to 4.9 V, and is variable with the mode selected.
Being not able to control the central controller or the Wifii chip. I tried to connect the control buttons with relay switches. I connected the positive end of the speed and mode buttons to the NO side of RS, and the negative end to the comm. Then controlled the RS with reef pi, and it worked nicely.
For those with Jebao WM, you know that the speed button increase the speed with each press to max then decrease to the lowest and then back up again, to overcome this and start from the same speed each time you want to change the speed to the desired new setting for the required time, then when it is time to return back to the original speed you do a full cycle that is bring the speed to lowest first then back to the original speed. For example from 4 to 6 you turn the relay 2 times, however from 6 back to 4 you turn the relay 12 times so that next time you run your macro it will go from 4 to 6 and not from 4 to 2.
I hope this helps and if you have any suggestions or better ways to write the macros you are welcome to share.
Yeah. My "Feed" Macro has become quite something. Sometimes I think Macros are the most amazing feature in reef-pi.
Did you submit the sorting you added to equipment tab?
It will be super duper useful to all of us.
Yes Rob, the natural sorting by name instead of id was applied to pretty much all of of the lists. It also rounds to 2 decimals the pH chart values and tooltip and includes some Spanish translations. Thanks!
