Reef Pi & Kasa Smart Home Wi-Fi Power Strips for Reef Tanks
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2020
- One of the big pains with setting up my Reef Pi was drilling out the sort of weirdly shaped DB9 connector for the American DJ Power Strip. It's not round, so you can't just drill a hole like you can for every other connection - enter the Kasa Smart Wi-Fi Power Strip which can be set up to be totally wireless making your Reef-Pi all that cleaner.
The HS300 has six outlets, and you can set up more than one of them, so it should be useful for even the largest reef tanks (or terrariums, as I use my Reef-Pi for). Each outlet has a nice relay built into it, so you can control even low voltage items on any outlet. The Reef-Pi communicates using your home wifi network, pinging the outlets each time one should turn on or off. The HS300 connected to my 2.4Ghz Wifi network very easily - none of the issues some devices have with seeing my 5Ghz Wifi network and getting confused since they can't use it. The setup was very simple, including getting it integrated with the reefpi.
There are maybe a few things that you probably have on your SPS coral reeftank that maaaaybe are not the best for this type of solution. As the reef-pi needs to ping each time to turn an outlet on or off, it relies on the quality of your home wifi network - if the network is down the outlet is locked in whatever state it's already in. I'd be careful maybe with dosing pumps or that sort of thing.
Check out the HS300 outlet on Tp-Link's website for the Kasa Smart line of products. They make really sleek solutions as power strips for your aquarium or terrarium (or orchidarium or vivarium) controller.
www.kasasmart.com/us/products...
Check out the Reef-Pi project if you haven't already, it's a pretty cool open source aquarium controller that runs on most any Raspberry Pi.
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The HS300 driver exposes 6 analog inputs in addition to 6 digital outputs (outlets). The outlets can be used to control equipment (heater. chiller etc) as usual, while the analog inputs can be treated as ph probes and you can use the value to chart/control other things.
Thank you @reefman . Appreciate the shout out :-)
Great alternative to more expensive power control
I agree, and the HS300 has been working perfectly so far. Just gotta keep in mind the wifi outage issue
Wow had no idea it could do this so easily thanks!
They work really well, but I have had a few issues when wifi goes down. So it's as stable as your wifi network.
@@ReefMan yes i think you nailed it when you said no important equipment. That is what kind of scares me on the hydros controller. I guess reefpi can’t monitor the power usage? That is really the main reason i bought it was to set up ‘rules’ for when power is drawing like it should, but the kasa app cant do any type of notification on power usage that i am aware of (on ios)
Yea all the reefpi can do is tell it to turn something on or off
@@ReefMan actually it will monitor the power as well it seems. Just go into connectors and add each plug again under ‘analog inputs’ and then add each one as a ph probe selecting that analog input.
It gives a reading that doesn’t tie to watts used which is odd (not sure what the reading is looks like it is around 10x the watts being pulled) but if you have something like an ac pump that you want always on this would alert you if the power draw falls below or above the threshold
Very helpful information. Thank you. Do you know if other smart plugs of KASA can be used for reef pi like KP303 of 3 oultlets model?
It's not one of the supported models but I'd suggest asking for support via the ReefPi thread on reef2reef or even by opening an issue on the ReefPi GitHub project. The development team is really nice and I would think that adding support for the KP303 probably would be pretty easy.
ReefMan Thank you. It is great!!
This is a really interesting solution, but as you mention, controlling critical equipment with a network device is spooky. For a reef tank, pretty much everything could kill your livestock and corals. I’m looking into a custom setup, and as much as I hate it, I may end up wiring several relays to control everything.
Check out a company called BlueAcro. They did just that with relays! Their products work with the reef pi software really well. I've been meaning to buy some to try them, but I haven't done that yet.
I need you to be my reef sherpa.