Control application

The main control application of Aquarium control implements the following features:

• Data acquisition of water temperature, pH and conductivity
• Data acquisition of ambient temperature and humidity
• Fresh water refill control
• Feed control
• Water temperature control using air ventilation and heater
• Balling mineral dosing

Additionally, the main control application implements the following supporting features:

• Configuration using a Rust .toml configuration file
• Logging
• Command interface to receive instructions from outside of the application via a POSIX message queue
• Storage of recorded data in SQL database
• File-based communication to RAM-disk
• Usage of simulator is run with simulated sensor data for development purposes
• Schedule checks to limit the hour of day of operating certain actuators

The application is written in Rust and is automatically started using systemd.