🐠Your Aquarium, Connected & Controlled
Smart Automation for a Healthier Aquarium
AquaPi: Build a smarter, healthier aquarium with our modular, affordable monitoring and automation system.
username: AquaPI
password: aquapi
Around Tallahassee, Florida
About AquaPi
Why Choose AquaPi?
-
AquaPi is an open-source project designed to connect your aquarium to your home automation system.
It uses an ESP32 microcontroller and various sensors to monitor your aquarium's water quality and other parameters.
AquaPi then sends this data to your home automation system, like Home Assistant, allowing you to view it, set alarms, and create automations.
-
AquaPi can monitor several parameters, including:
Water level
Water leak
Temperature
pH
Salinity
ORP
Dissolved Oxygen
CO2 - Gaseous
O2 - Gaseous
Humidity
and more!
-
Yes, AquaPi is designed to be flexible, allowing you to add your own sensors and create a custom solution for your aquarium.
-
Open-Source vs. Proprietary: AquaPi is an open-source project. This means that the design and software are freely available, allowing for community contributions and modifications. In contrast, the Apex Neptune is a proprietary system with closed software.
DIY and Customization: AquaPi is designed for DIY enthusiasts. It uses a modular design with expansion slots, allowing users to add their own sensors and create custom solutions. Apex Neptune, while highly capable, is a more pre-built system with less emphasis on user customization at the component level.
ESPHome and Home Assistant Integration: AquaPi is specifically designed to work with ESPHome and Home Assistant. This gives users the flexibility and power of a general-purpose home automation system for their aquarium. Apex Neptune has its own software and ecosystem.
Cost-Effectiveness: AquaPi is designed to be an affordable aquarium monitoring and automation solution. By leveraging open-source software and readily available components, it can be a more cost-effective option compared to high-end commercial systems like the Apex Neptune.
Focus: AquaPi is primarily focused on monitoring and automation using sensors and integration with home automation systems. While it can control some devices, its strength lies in its data collection, alerting, and automation capabilities within the Home Assistant ecosystem. Systems like the Apex Neptune often include a broader range of built-in control features.
In essence, AquaPi prioritizes flexibility, customization, affordability, and integration with open-source home automation platforms, while systems like the Apex Neptune provide a more comprehensive, pre-built, and supported commercial solution.
AquaPi Collection
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 many parameters!
AquaPi is an open-source project that allows you to connect your aquarium to your home automation system. It uses an ESP32 microcontroller and a variety of sensors to monitor your aquarium's water quality and parameters. AquaPi then sends this data to your home automation system, Home Assistant, where you can view it, set alarms, and create automations.
AquaPi Builds
Choose an AquaPi build that best suits your needs.
This is the base model, providing core monitoring capabilities with a Raspberry Pi 5 flashed with Home Assistant.
Includes Kasa Power Strip and sensors for essential parameters like temperature, water leak detection, water level, and pH.
It also allows for additional add-ons, such as ORP, salinity and dissolved oxygen sensors, for more specific configurations.
This is the advanced version, offering expanded monitoring and control.
It builds upon the Essentials features and adds capabilities like ORP (oxidation-reduction potential) monitoring.
It also allows for optional add-ons, such as salinity and dissolved oxygen sensors.
Essentially this is the more robust version of the aquarium monitoring system.
Professional Aquarium Care
We provide aquarium maintenance services in Tallahassee, FL and surrounding areas, specializing in helping amateur and professional aquarists who lack the time to maintain their tanks. By maintaining and supplying your freshwater or saltwater aquarium's essentials, we help it reach its full potential.
Aquarium, Pond and Water Feature Maintenance in Tallahassee, FL.
Complete aquarium solutions: Let us clean, maintain, install, and even find new homes for your fish.
We take care of the messy and time-consuming tasks of aquarium maintenance, so busy people can still enjoy the beauty of an aquarium in their home or business. We can help with everything from water changes to repairs and replacements.