Recent content by richiev

Update on this. It took a lot more prompting, but via opencrawl I now have a full auto water change (AWC) integration implemented in home assistant, leveraging both my Red Sea ATO and my Hydros Blenny. This setup is a bit convoluted because of how I happened to acquire the pieces, but my setup...

Did they say anywhere what happened? I don't know anything about this guy, but the second video seems a bit weird. Does this guy do a lot for the reef community, I assumed it was someone with a lot of $$$ and a home setup.

That doesn't look like MEN. MEN would start at the edges and be moving inwards. You also would see them when looking at the underside. They're small, but not microscopic. Especially if you look at it underwater you'll clearly see them. Size of rice with wavy fringes. To me that looks more like...

Fair, but I meant the equivalent of getting the dashboards setup with text commands, and having it do the install for you

If I get ahold of an apex I'll see if I can do the same there. I think these are a lot more accessible than you think. Also the AIs can give you tailored, step by step, guidance on how to do it! The main challenge is getting it access to your local network, but I'm sure someone is building a...

I now have AI control of my Hydros! Hydros only allows access through their browser and mobile apps. That's somewhat annoying to me because I can't integrate it with any of my other things at home. Hydros doesn't expose any sort of API for people to use. That however doesn't turn out to be a...

I let it go to town on my tank dashboards too. Here's what it came up with: This is way better than the ugly random list I previously had. Also super informative now.

I am going further and further down the AI deep end. Folks really need to try all the latest and greatest stuff, it is incredibly powerful right now. Far more than it was before. As an aside, I think the "Something Big Is Happening" post is one of the clearest discussions of what's going on...

Let me see if I can figure out how to have an apex directly control the 12v motors I have. I already setup those, so I'd rather not have to start over. Worst case I guess I switch to control it from 12v power adapters plugged into the EB. Do you have a level sensor and/or a temp sensor? I have...

I should post this as a question on a Hydros forum, but I want to rant first. I kinda hate this thing. I like aspects of it, but overall I just find the device pretty disappointing. It goes so far out of its way to be easy, that it makes things more complicated than they already are (simple <>...

Oh man, this just gave me the idea of moving my refugium outside and letting sunlight cover it. Obviously need to prevent bugs and rain getting in, but would be free light. I'd been thinking of doing such a thing to get my protein skimmer outside of my living room, but doing the fuge too would...

Note that on a given electrical circuit, you only need one GFCI not one per outlet. In most places that means one per room, however it has to be near the first one. You don't really want multiple, because debugging what tripped can be a nightmare. I'm also unclear if having multiple leads to...

Might help to have a full context picture so the location can be seen better. That being said, if the question is "would this be super safe to put in a living space", having a compromised seal on the bottom of a tank seems like a non-optimal situation. Usually convos about chipping have the...

Tank size?

Location? I'm interested in the Monti, though distance would affect getting some.