Doctor Aquarium Software

I seen this software it looks very cool. only thing is you need the board to
do the good stuff.

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"rumyrum" wrote in message
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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.


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