Hello
I am currently working on my tiny pico reef concepts, which will focus around very low cost, and make the process of a tiny aquarium as easy as possible.
My question is, if you have a tiny pico reef somewhere, would you want to manually turn the light on and off yourself, or would you prefer a sensor to detect the ambient light in the room and switch on / off accordingly?
Running via a timer is also a option but more expensive due to needing a real time clock.
For me, the idea of it switching itself on and off is ideal as I would likely forget about it from time to time.
To clarify the ambient light means it could tell when its night with the lights out or not. Off course the downside would be say a bedroom at night, you turn your light on and so does the pico for the time you have your room light on.
I value all of your opinions on this as I am torn between the 2 ideas. See the early stages of this idea below:
- Paul
Smallest version being used to test the different functions needed.
1st PCB with wires to a external micro controller so I can track things in real time / edit things easier.
I am currently working on my tiny pico reef concepts, which will focus around very low cost, and make the process of a tiny aquarium as easy as possible.
My question is, if you have a tiny pico reef somewhere, would you want to manually turn the light on and off yourself, or would you prefer a sensor to detect the ambient light in the room and switch on / off accordingly?
Running via a timer is also a option but more expensive due to needing a real time clock.
For me, the idea of it switching itself on and off is ideal as I would likely forget about it from time to time.
To clarify the ambient light means it could tell when its night with the lights out or not. Off course the downside would be say a bedroom at night, you turn your light on and so does the pico for the time you have your room light on.
I value all of your opinions on this as I am torn between the 2 ideas. See the early stages of this idea below:
- Paul
Smallest version being used to test the different functions needed.
1st PCB with wires to a external micro controller so I can track things in real time / edit things easier.