reivaxy/aquamonitor

Recifal aquarium monitoring with arduino, alerts and settings by SMS and webApp, and statistics database

aquamonitor's Issues

Subscription to a service is broken

Sending a "sub alert" no longer works.

Sub and unsub should now use the findRegisteredNumber function

Case should be redesigned using openScad

Will be handy for V3 'station' modules that do not have the GSM shield => case can be smaller

Need to provide link to alternate GSM library !

Need to be able to adjust date and time by sms

Date and time can't be set by SMS nor any other mean for now

Manage a wifi or BT connection to share GSM module with other devices

A friend has 3 salt water tanks (and 4 soft water tanks...) and already one of these devices. It would be cool to have extra devices for the other tanks, but that could communicate with the one equipped with the GSM module: less expensive, only one SIM card/subscription...

Random ideas (To be continued)

• each device will need to have a configurable name (and a not configurable ID) to address config messages and identify response messages and alerts. Check if arduino board comes with a usable ID or S/N ?
• Do we want to share the LCD display too ? Optionally ? (saves only about $2, but smaller device, case easier to design...)
• In case an internet connection is available, each device could log all measures (instead of using an sdCard module)

branch Wifi: some requests from webApp to ESP9266 for data are failing

Some requests GET /getData.json are failing.

Time since last alert was sent is always 0

In the "subs" reply, for each registered number, time elapsed since the last alert was sent should be available, and is currently always 0.
The data seems to be fine, since no new alert is sent before the configured interval has elapsed, but it is always 0 in the sms sent.

No longer compiles with Arduino 1.6.11

Issues with constant strings parameters
Issues with GSM library

Design a sensor to check water movement (make sure powerhead pumps work)

And of course adapt the program to check this sensor data.

Random ideas:
IR beam:

• a flap in front of the pump moving water would move a flat piece from between an IR led and its IR Receiver
• when flow stops, the flat piece comes between the IR elements, the receiver no longer gets anything => detection.

Possible issue with stuff blocking the flap (algae, ...). Oh, and also, plastic floats :(

Hall:

• a Hall sensor used to detect pump motor rotation.

Possible issues: may not work for all pumps. Some mecanical failures coud have motor rotating but still not moving water.

Monitor main power source

Main power source should be monitored to send an SMS as soon as it fails, since the battery may not last long enough to wait for temperature to drop or, if it happens during lights off schedule.

Use a resistor divider bridge on main power (12V) to drive an arduino input.

Project is not open source without a license file

Without a license, this project isn't open source and no one can use the code.

Please use something like http://choosealicense.com/ to decide what license to use. I recommend MIT or GPL.

A novel effort by Add a License Please

Replace DS1307 RCT with another kind.

DS1307 is buggy and freezing when the button battery is in place.
http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=411697

The RTC battery isn't completely necessary, since the whole device has its own battery insuring date/time won't be lost in case of main power failure.
But still. It's annoying.

Probable issue if module runs for 50 days without being reset

The anti-sms-flood interval for each number that receives an alert stores the value returned by millis() when sending an SMS alert.
Next time sending alerts is checked, it compares the elapsed time between this value and the current millis() value.
But millis() resets every 50 days approximately. The stored value, before the reset, will then be bigger than any millis() returned value for the next 50 days => no more alerts sent.

Design a light shield to make sensor less sensitive to external lights

Shaped as a quarter (or less) of a sphere, to glue on top of the current sensor bracket to shield the photoresistor from getting some external light

Incoming voice call breaks SMS reading and sending !!

Reading and sending SMS no longer works, but without blocking.
This issue affects V1.0

Monitor water level

Monitoring water level would detect lack of evaporation compensation

Send an SMS if main power was off and turns back on

This is something you want to know asap :)

Jack socket for temperature can short circuit the 5V arduino power => destroy the regulator

When plugging in, if arduino already powered, there can be a short circuit.
Also, tightening one socket screw, one of the contacts moved and came to touch another.

And changing the onboard regulator ain't enough, I've now 1 Mega board that runs only with USB power source, and the other delivers only 3.3V... :(

I may end up using VGA sockets, grouping all sensors, and with spare space for new stuff if needed...

Chart access needs to be password protected

Since the light measures give information about the owner being home or not, for instance.

Improve localizable message definition to ease localization updates

For now all (except 'off' and 'on', I think) messages are in the progmemStrings.h file which makes localization not too hard.
(French version on the way, but diacritical characters not being handled will make messages ugly).
But it's not optimal, especially when adding new messages, a flat list would be much better, with the message ID and then the string.
Then a script would generate the more complex progmemStrings.h file with its current syntax.