Joys of DIY project

[njtiger24 aquariums]

so I am off work this week. I was hoping to work on my project but have not really been in the mindset. Today I did check to see if I could solve the false alerts that I am getting at midnight. Not sure why but I get false reports but only at midnight. I would assume it one of my scripts that run but its not every night. I did just check all my scripts today and make sure there no errors with them. Will see in the next couple of days.

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

well no errors in my scripts but still got false alert at midnight. Need to see what is going on here. Going to try and dig into this today; unless the wife has other plans for me lol

 

[Trio91]

What's that high temp?

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

What's that high temp?

Its a false report. 185 and 32 are temps these sensors use during bootup. It might be a sign that the sensor is going but I just find it odd that it only does this at midnight. My system polls the temp every min and logs it every hour but I only get these false alets at midnight. I just checked my alert log and this started about a month ago and I can't recall if I changed anything around that time. Also it doesn't happen every night as you can see from the screen shot it happen on Sunday and then last night

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

So after digging into my scripts to see about this alert issue I came to the conclusion that my alerts need to be cleaned up. I am first going to work on getting the admin section cleaned up with different alert types, enable/disable each alert and so on. I then will work on the scripts to run the alerts.

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

Ok well just couldn't get in the mindset, vacation mind, to make any changes yesterday. Still trying to figure out the false alert. I disabled one section of the code but still got an alert last night. Today I disabled another section. If that doesn't work I will disable the alert and run more tests on the code/sensor

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

still digging into the false alert. I thought it might had been overloading the pi so I killed some options which bought the load way down but still got the false report. Last night (from around 8:00pm until 8:00am) I ran a new script which is almost like my alert one but it just prints out the temps. I checked that and not one false report but I still got one from my alert script. I am going to let my test script run all day today and see if I get anymore false reports but I am thinking my alert script needs to be cleaned up

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

So for Christmas I got a gift card. I ordered some stuff in hope to be able to get my RW4s to work with my pi controller. I will keep everyone up-to-date on that as well as other changes to the project.

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

So lately I been working on a new program for my raspberry pi controller. My plan was to have what my touch screen display be the same format/program that I can access from my computer and/or phone. After seeing performance issues I figured I would start working on a more light weight code. My pi was running CPU around 95+% all the time which was causing the system to run slow and lockup at time. The main issue being that it was running chromium which is a hog for resources.


I been slowly working on a python program to replace just what is displayed on the pi screen. I will still be able to access the web park from my phone and/or computer. After running into some issues I have a base code loaded on the pi and its doing much better. Still more work that needs to be done just to get to where I was but its a start.


Also python is much easier on the pi as well so the system is running better over all

 

[marc marini]

what are those chips in the bag

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

what are those chips in the bag

PIXNOR L293D DIP 16-pin IC Stepper Motor. I am going to look to add my jabeo rw-4s to my system using these chips

 

[marc marini]

do you have a circuit in mind

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

do you have a circuit in mind

not yet. Just some stuff I read said they were good chips for motors so I picked some up when I had that gift card. Work been kicking my butt so I have not had much time to really work on this

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

WTF. this tank was to be my 'simple' tank. Let it run with little to no issues. Well then I decided to change things out and my levels dropped so I lost new SPSs. So I been working on bring my levels back up and I finally felt like I was getting it under control and bam this morning my controller **** the bed. Not sure what happen but it will not boot. Looking into it

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

well seems like the issue was the power cable but to figure that out I was dumb and wiped the whole system, tried another card, tried another pi and then tried another power cable. I should had known to try that first. Well anyway time to redesign the system lol

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

Ok. I got the system working a little. I still got tons of work to do with rebuilding the system which kinda needed to be done anyway. I have my top-of alerts working. That is good for now and I will work on getting everything else in due time

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

Ok still having some odd issues since redoing this. For some odd reason it seems to lock up/drop wifi. I am looking into this but in the mean time I have the following working

• ATO notice - the icons change base on if I need to add water or not. Working on adding a pump to go with it but still need more backend stuff first
• Temp reading - it reads the current temp but doesn't log it anywhere yet
• I added a butto, that's not on the touch screen, that if held for about 5secs will reboot the system.

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

Ok looks like I solved my wifi issue. Just had to wipe the system again and make sure it was a full clean wipe.

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

Well after trying to figure out where the 'power' issue is with my current set up and a crack screen. I decided to order a new pi, new memeory card, and new screen to give this a whole new start. I really miss my tank but I know right now its for the best so I will just dive into my pi project hoping to have it working by the time I am ready to get a tank up and running again.

 

[Trio91]

Looking forward to the build bud