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The AI fixed my reef tank lights. They had been dimmed to 35 percent for months.

His corals died but the tank lights still ran a coral schedule. The AI drove a Raspberry Pi over Bluetooth, changed the light and pump schedules, and found the lights had been dimmed to about 35 percent and their clock was 6 and a half hours late, then fixed the time.

How it works

  1. Raspberry Pi set up near the tank with a Bluetooth library
  2. The AI scans and reads all four devices over SSH
  3. Agent builds new schedules and asks for a go ahead
  4. Owner says yes
  5. Schedules are written one device at a time and read back
  6. Agent work reveals a 0.352 dimming setting and a clock 6.5 hours behind
  7. Time is set right and spreads to the other devices

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent found two problems nobody had seen: the lights had run at about 35 percent for months and their clock was 6 and a half hours behind.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on roho.foo. See the original ↗

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