Hey everyone,
Like many of you, I love my Neptune Apex, but I was tired of losing logs every couple of months. The controller has limited memory and eventually overwrites its oldest data to make room for new logs. I wanted automated solution to archive every single data point from my Apex and visualize it for the long term. And I wanted to store the data points locally on my own hardware.
I built a little app to solve the "data purging" problem by creating a self-contained monitoring stack that runs locally on a home server or NAS (like a Ugreen NAS, in my case). I now have a persistent log of every temperature fluctuation, pH dip, and outlet state change. Thought I would share the project/code in the case anyone also wanted to store persistent logs on your own setups (like your own raspberry pi).
Here’s a peek at what my reef dashboard looks like:
Happy Reefing!
Like many of you, I love my Neptune Apex, but I was tired of losing logs every couple of months. The controller has limited memory and eventually overwrites its oldest data to make room for new logs. I wanted automated solution to archive every single data point from my Apex and visualize it for the long term. And I wanted to store the data points locally on my own hardware.
I built a little app to solve the "data purging" problem by creating a self-contained monitoring stack that runs locally on a home server or NAS (like a Ugreen NAS, in my case). I now have a persistent log of every temperature fluctuation, pH dip, and outlet state change. Thought I would share the project/code in the case anyone also wanted to store persistent logs on your own setups (like your own raspberry pi).
Here’s a peek at what my reef dashboard looks like:
Happy Reefing!
