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Aquamonitor v1.5


kameo4242

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Hi dear reefer community,

I just released Aquamonitor on Github. It's free, opensource and open hardware. All the schematics are provided in the github description as well.

Basically, the project handles:

- water leak detection
- automatic water change (AWC)
- Auto Top Off (ATO)
- level monitoring
- alerting through emails and pushover

I intend to evolve it overtime to include temperature, ORP and pH monitoring and a mobile application, among other things.

you can find it here:
https://github.com/aquamonitor/Aquamonitor

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Not sure why no one has responded to this! Pretty cool that you're putting it out there for anyone to use. I'm just starting out, currently collecting supplies, but I hope to do something similar someday!

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Pretty cool I agree. Interesting you chose the pi as your platform - seems most choose an arduino platform for their controllers.

 

Does the pi have native PWM outputs? I like the scope of your project and its nice that it's not overly complicated. The first thing that comes to mind is "oh, what about this functionality? Maybe we could add lighting control, etc... But in reality this fills a different need - a monitor (as you call it!).

 

I've been thinking of getting a wifi camera to monitor my tank while I'm away (somehow I've lost a fish each time I've been gone for more than a weekend - and I've had different people coming over to feed even!!!).

 

IMO an ideal monitor would have a camera, temperature control, leak monitor, ATO control, and maybe a few other things. I see most of them in your list of future expansions.

 

Good luck! Not sure if I can try this at the moment, but I think it sounds doable how you've laid it out.

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Pretty cool I agree. Interesting you chose the pi as your platform - seems most choose an arduino platform for their controllers.

 

Does the pi have native PWM outputs? I like the scope of your project and its nice that it's not overly complicated. The first thing that comes to mind is "oh, what about this functionality? Maybe we could add lighting control, etc... But in reality this fills a different need - a monitor (as you call it!).

 

I've been thinking of getting a wifi camera to monitor my tank while I'm away (somehow I've lost a fish each time I've been gone for more than a weekend - and I've had different people coming over to feed even!!!).

 

IMO an ideal monitor would have a camera, temperature control, leak monitor, ATO control, and maybe a few other things. I see most of them in your list of future expansions.

 

Good luck! Not sure if I can try this at the moment, but I think it sounds doable how you've laid it out.

 

My dad and I have done something very similar with the RPi...those things do a great job. We prefer it over arduino because the RPi has an operating system and is more like using a regular computer (at least the way we've done it...it's just a software package that runs on the RPi). We actually just added a wifi camera with the Pi Zero. Temp control and ATO both work very well with the Pi.

 

We managed to add AI lighting control to our web/app interface as well...this only worked because these lights have their own interface that we could simply reference for our little page.

 

We tried using the Pi Zero to run the software as well, but those don't seem to have the horsepower to run the software without hiccups. I think we set it up for dosing as well, but we don't dose anything so it's just a cool feature to have.

 

The DS18B20 temperature sensor works very well with the RPi. Haven't seen any pH monitors, sounds like they are out there though...I'll have to start looking!

 

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