Hello, I just wanted to announce the release of my shareware program that maybe some of you will find usefull. The program is called Doctor Aquarium and can be downloaded from
www.draquarium.com.
Links:
www.draquarium.com www.draquarium.com/download/draquarium.exe
Description:
Doctor Aquarium is an innovative aquarium automation assistant that monitors the health of your aquarium and takes actions so it will not get sick. It works with standard X10 home automation modules, and can measure pH, Temperature, Light Levels, Sound Levels, Voltage, Resistance, and other parameters using a DAQ board. The program features email alerts, and a web interface that lets you monitor you aquarium over the Internet. Unlike conventional hardware based aquarium controllers, Doctor Aquarium's built in scripting language let's you define any control logic. Doctor Aquarium is open and modular, so that anyone can create and share Plugins and scripts. Using X10 technology the program can turn on lights, pumps, heaters, power heads, and can be used to simulate lunar and solar cycles, and natural water motion. and can be used as a controller for marine salt water reef aquariums, fresh water aquariums, terrariums, vivariums, nano, and other types of fish tanks.The program is written in Delphi, and can be further extended using COM plugins.
The following plugins have been developed so far:
1. Email plugin: allows you to send email alerts
2. AppLauncher plugin: lets you start an external application, or issue a shell command
3. DrDAQ plugin: DrDAQ can measure pH, Room Temperature, Hood Temperature, and Aquarium Temperature, Light Levels, Sound Level, Voltage, and Resistance via built-in and external DrDAQ sensors. And can control an on-board LED, and 1 5V Digital Output The DrDAQ Sensor board from DrDAQ.com is required.
4. Firecracker plugin: interfaces with the Firecracker X10 computer interface, and allows you to use standard X10 home automation modules to Turn On/Off lights, pumps, heaters and dim and brighten incandescent lights. The Firecracker kit from X10.com is required.
5. Webserver plugin: allows you to trigger tasks over the internet from a web browser.
6. Calendar plugin: lets you trigger tasks by date or time
7. SunMoon plugin: lets you lets you trigger tasks by sun and moon events like sunrise, moonrise, and season of the year. Can be used to simulate lunar cycle
8. PlaySound plugin: lets you play a sound file to warn you of aquarium conditions
9. XTen plugin: allows you to use the Active Home (cm11a) X10 computer interface to control X10 devices. The XTen plugin can both send and receive X10 commands, so that you can event trigger a task from by the remote that comes with the Active Home kit. The Xten plugin also traps X10 commands allowing you to calculate and graph how much electricity you devices are using
10. LogBook plugin: you can use the LogBook plugin to track and graph Test kit results for more then 10 different aquarium parameters (Nitrate, Ammonia, Temperature, Salinity, ...);
11. Example plugin: is a plugin example provided with full Delphi source code.
