04-07-2023, 06:23 AM
Hi Rob,
I now have most of the things setup. The screen shots show the schedules and rules I have created. Let me know if I need to make any changes or any other ones that I am missing.
A few questions and suggestions:
Dashboard:
Looks clean, can you provide the user the ability to change the background from dark to light.
Allow users to add other graphs, e.g. ATO on/off.
How can we change the scale of the graph? I see an option but not sure how it works.
Rules:
I am not able to edit a rule that I have created. How does the rule work - e.g. I have my ATO pump set to go OFF if the water level is low in the ATO. If the tank level sensor is low, will it trigger the ATO pump? Will the system check for all rules to see if there is a conflict and how will it respond? (As I was writing this I realized that I need to create a new rule if tank level is low for 5 min then send an alert). Would be great if we can setup a reminder for the alert to resend email after a set interval and repeat for x number of times.
Scheduling:
It is fairly simple. Have not played with the more complex ones. For now I have setup schedules to turn ON my - return, wave maker and skimmer around 10:00 pm daily. Since my tank is only 24G AIO, I sometimes turn OFF the return and skimmer when I dose chemicals. I am able to edit the schedules. Since there is no startup schedule, I plan to replicate the same device turn ON steps once every 4 hours, so that in the event the system reboots the equipment will come ON. Would be great if I turn ON/OFF multiple devices in one schedule, I tried to select multiple devices but I could not. Also, the ability to copy schedules and edit them.
Calibration:
PH calibration was easy and was able to do it fairly quickly.
Temp calibration - noticed that it is missing. Since I use the DB probes, I coated mine with liquid plastic to avoid corrosion. The means I need to calibrate the temp sensor to compensate for the extra layer of plastic. Would be great if you could add something.
System:
I noticed that there is currently no option to backup the system setting. This has saved me a couple of times in the past when I was tinkering the reef-pi and testing Robo-Tank. I was able to quickly revert back to the old configuration and restore the settings if the SD card died. Please try to make this a priority upgrade if possible. If there are other ways to accomplish this let me know the process to save a backup and restore a backup.
Sensors:
Adding them was fairly easy. It would be great if you could show the current status of the sensor on the screen where we sit each individual sensor. During the setup for ATO, I had to go between screens to see the status since the - invert logic option is available.
Dosing - how do you mount the dosing pumps? If anyone has a 3D printer drawings please share them. Much appreciated!
So far, I love it and I think with a few more tweaks it should be great.
Ramana
I now have most of the things setup. The screen shots show the schedules and rules I have created. Let me know if I need to make any changes or any other ones that I am missing.
A few questions and suggestions:
Dashboard:
Looks clean, can you provide the user the ability to change the background from dark to light.
Allow users to add other graphs, e.g. ATO on/off.
How can we change the scale of the graph? I see an option but not sure how it works.
Rules:
I am not able to edit a rule that I have created. How does the rule work - e.g. I have my ATO pump set to go OFF if the water level is low in the ATO. If the tank level sensor is low, will it trigger the ATO pump? Will the system check for all rules to see if there is a conflict and how will it respond? (As I was writing this I realized that I need to create a new rule if tank level is low for 5 min then send an alert). Would be great if we can setup a reminder for the alert to resend email after a set interval and repeat for x number of times.
Scheduling:
It is fairly simple. Have not played with the more complex ones. For now I have setup schedules to turn ON my - return, wave maker and skimmer around 10:00 pm daily. Since my tank is only 24G AIO, I sometimes turn OFF the return and skimmer when I dose chemicals. I am able to edit the schedules. Since there is no startup schedule, I plan to replicate the same device turn ON steps once every 4 hours, so that in the event the system reboots the equipment will come ON. Would be great if I turn ON/OFF multiple devices in one schedule, I tried to select multiple devices but I could not. Also, the ability to copy schedules and edit them.
Calibration:
PH calibration was easy and was able to do it fairly quickly.
Temp calibration - noticed that it is missing. Since I use the DB probes, I coated mine with liquid plastic to avoid corrosion. The means I need to calibrate the temp sensor to compensate for the extra layer of plastic. Would be great if you could add something.
System:
I noticed that there is currently no option to backup the system setting. This has saved me a couple of times in the past when I was tinkering the reef-pi and testing Robo-Tank. I was able to quickly revert back to the old configuration and restore the settings if the SD card died. Please try to make this a priority upgrade if possible. If there are other ways to accomplish this let me know the process to save a backup and restore a backup.
Sensors:
Adding them was fairly easy. It would be great if you could show the current status of the sensor on the screen where we sit each individual sensor. During the setup for ATO, I had to go between screens to see the status since the - invert logic option is available.
Dosing - how do you mount the dosing pumps? If anyone has a 3D printer drawings please share them. Much appreciated!
So far, I love it and I think with a few more tweaks it should be great.
Ramana
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