This project is in development and doesnt actually do a lot at the moment

A raspberry pi powered aquarium controller. Monitors temperature and controls lights, air and CO2.

This replaces the original Arduino powered aquarium controller and has the following advantages:

• Is network connected:
  • can be managed remotely.
  • can send alerts.
  • can use NTP for accurate time-keeping.
• Multiple on/off times for air, CO2 and lights
• Other stuff as I think of it...

Follow these instructions on the command line on your raspberry pi.

curl -sLS https://apt.adafruit.com/add | sudo bash
sudo apt-get install node
sudo reboot

pi-blaster is an open source project that allows very efficient PWM (pulse width modulation) of GPIO pins on the raspberry pi. This allows us to do things like dim the LED lights, rather than just turn them off or on.

• Clone the repo

  cd /opt
  sudo git clone https://github.com/sarfata/pi-blaster.git
  

• Change the owner of the cloned directory to your user and group rather than root (pi is default for both):

  sudo chown -R pi:pi pi-blaster
  

• Build and install pi-blaster:

  sudo apt-get install autoconf
  cd /opt/pi-blaster
  ./autogen.sh
  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install
  

• Clone this repo:

  cd /opt
  sudo git clone https://github.com/kabadisha/pi-aquarium-controller.git
  

• Change the owner of the cloned directory to your user and group rather than root (pi is default for both):

  sudo chown -R pi:pi pi-aquarium-controller
  

• Install the project dependencies:

  npm install
  

Follow these instructions on the command line on your raspberry pi.

• Update your clone:

  cd /opt/pi-aquarium-controller
  git pull
  

• Update the project dependencies:

  cd /opt/pi-aquarium-controller
  npm install