The Aquarium meets the Smart Home!
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AquaPi for ESPHome is a project that helps you build a powerful aquarium monitoring and automation system using affordable ESPHome devices and Home Assistant. Make endless automations and monitor temperature, water level, and upgrade for advanced aquarium monitoring: pH, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and more (using EZO circuits and probes).
Why use AquaPi?
- Open-source: Freely available for anyone to access, modify, and contribute to.
- Modular: Designed to be easily expanded and customized based on your specific needs.
- Modernized: Utilizes the latest technologies and tools for a seamless user experience.
- Customizable: Adapt the system to fit your unique aquarium setup and monitoring preferences.
- Versatile: Expand the system’s capabilities with your own compatible sensors and equipment.
- Affordable: Offers a cost-effective alternative to many high-end monitoring solutions.
- Powerful: Provides comprehensive monitoring capabilities for various water parameters.
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Install
You can typically skip this as AquaPi comes pre-installed!
Use the button below to install the pre-built firmware directly to your device via USB from the browser.
Hardware Used
ESP32 devkit
HomeAssistant using a Raspberry Pi 3 or above. The more RAM, the better.
Probes:
Temperature
- DS18B20 Waterproof Thermistor
Water Level
- Food Grade Optical Infrared Water Liquid Level Sensor
pH: Atlas Scientific pH: EZO-pH & Lab Grade pH Probe
- EZO™ pH Circuit, ISO 10523 Compliant
- Double junction silver / silver chloride Lab Grade pH Probe with Vanadium III, Gen 3
- Electrically Isolated EZO™ Carrier Board
- Range: 0 - 14
- Time Before Recalibration: 1 Year
- Life Expectancy: ~2.5+ Years
Salinity: Atlas Scientific Conductivity: EZO-EC & Conductivity Probe K 1.0
- EZO™ EC Circuit, ISO 7888 Compliant
- Conductivity Probe K 1.0, Graphite, Gen 3
- Electrically Isolated EZO™ Carrier Board
- Range: 0.07 − 500,000+ μS/cm
- Time Before Recalibration: ~10 Years
- Life Expectancy: ~10 Years
Peristaltic Dosing Pump: Atlas Scientific Pump: EZO-PMP
- EZO™ Pump Embedded Circuit
- Flow Rate: 0.5ml to 105ml/mins
- Tube Size: 5mm
- Head Height: 8.1m(26.5’)
Carbon Dioxide - Gaseous: Atlas Scientific CO2: EZO-CO2
- EZO™ CO2 Embedded Circuit, Gaseous
- Range: 0 − 10,000 ppm
- Life Expectancy: ~5.5 Years
Other EZO probes that should work but not yet tested:
Dissolved Oxygen,
Humidity,
ORP,
Temperture
Prerequisite!! A Raspberry Pi (or something similar) running HomeAssistant to communicate and interact with the ESP32 via homeassistant.local:8123.
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Software Used
Home Assistant: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
ESPHome: A system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 and RP2040 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.
Useful Links:
HomeAssistant
ESPHome
EZO-pH Circuit Datasheet
EZO-EC Circuit Datasheet
EZO-PMP Circuit Datasheet
EZO-CO2 Circuit Datasheet