The Dewd Robo-Tank build thread

[Dewd]

That is a big problem that I have with the current reef-pi software. In my case it caused an overdose of calcium that took me days to clean up when a power glitch reset the RPi and erased the current state of a timer. I noticed the problem the next morning... :-/

The issue is that the state of timers (and macros) is not persisted to the database so it stays in RAM, therefore the application doesn't look for it upon startup or reload; however, it does keep outlets turned on but ignoring timers/macros. This is something I have on my list of things to improve. Let's see how it goes but in the meantime the only way to work around it is by using a UPS.

I had a power outage in the middle of an AWC and while I watched to see if there would be a problem after power came back on, the problem was there and could have been an issue if I wasn't at home to watch.

What made me start considering the idea of a UPS has bee the Reef-Pi getting assigned a new IP address after a power outage.  I'm sure getting a static IP address assigned to the Reef-pi would solve THAT issue, the UPS will probably solve that as well as a few others at the same time.