Ohio Reef
Reef Discussion => Do It Yourself => Topic started by: Miles on January 24, 2017, 12:10:20
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This may rank among one of the geekier things I have ever done, but I have been thinking for the last several years that I should have some sort of documentation in a binder or something on how to operate my system. I figured this would be a good idea if I even needed someone to do something for me when I was on vacation or something and there was a tank emergency, or just to answer simple questions for whoever is watching my tank. I never came up with a good way that would make this easily maintainable and I kept putting it off. I wanted to have sections for how to do basic maintenance, feeding, power outage procedures, inhabitants profiles, palytoxin warning, etc.
While daydreaming in a meeting at work yesterday, it suddenly dawned on me. A FishWiki would solve all of this. Set up a wiki with all of this info and then make sure to leave the URL in an obvious place for a tanksitter.
So when I got home from work, I set up a Raspberry Pi to run MediaWiki plugged into my UPS with my router (which I use to receive alerts form my Apex during a power outage) .
It is far from finished, but I do have a few simple pages describing how to perform a water change and the proper way to feed everything. Now to figure out how to pull live data from the Apex to populate a stats page on the wiki.... :hmmmm:
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That is an awesome idea!! You could mount a tablet to your tank stand and have that wiki page be persistent.
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That is an awesome idea!! You could mount a tablet to your tank stand and have that wiki page be persistent.
Yeah... I thought about that. I just don't think I have an old tablet laying around. Maybe I'll pick up a cheap Kindle Fire when they go on sale.
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got my wife a new ipad for xmas, old one is cleaned out and available. kept in a case, as close to new as you can get.