proposal for the future

[JFReyes]

I would welcome if DC ports could be added to the dosing pump tab and not just pwm. My pwm ports are fully occupied and it would be nice to keep the dosing pump card with the DC port option

Hi:

Thank you for the suggestion. This is complicated so it may take me some time to get it right.

I already looked into using the digital (RPi-PowerBar) ports for dosing pumps because my own pumps are simple, AC pumps. Unfortunately the original reef-pi software -- as designed -- has a very tight coupling between dosing pumps and jacks. This means that it was written as if nothing else but jacks could be used for dosing pumps and that makes it complicated to change the code. 

Please look into making a DC port behave as a jack. If so, you could probably use it for a dosing pump. In the meantime I'll be revisiting this issue occasionally because I believe that the software should be able to handle reality, and my reality is that my dosing pumps are AC.

Thanks,