Guides

Step by step: from the box to working automation

Practical guides — first start-up, presets, safety and Home Assistant integration. Written for aquarists, not electronics engineers.

Home Assistant: Aquarium in the Smart Home, Logic in the Controller

Oquari integrates natively with Home Assistant: you enable one option in the panel, and aquarium entities appear in HA automatically—no configuration coding, no cloud, no third-party plugins. This guide shows how to set…

Heater Control: Hysteresis and Safety Layers That Protect Your Reef Tank

A stuck heater is the number one failure in aquarium keeping—it can destroy a tank built over years in just a few hours. This guide explains how Oquari manages heating (hysteresis) and what safety layers stand between yo…

Dosing: Calibration, Portions, and Why the Controller Does Not “Catch Up” on Missed Doses

Dosing — trace elements in a reef tank, fertilizers in a planted aquarium, or care preparations in freshwater — is one of those tasks that benefits greatly from automation. Small, frequent doses are better than a single…

pH-Controlled CO₂: Stable Gas Delivery for a Planted Aquarium

In a high-tech planted aquarium, CO₂ is the primary fertilizer—and simultaneously the biggest risk to your fish. The Oquari system, in its Plant profile, turns a standard pH probe and a solenoid valve into a precise regu…

Automatic Water Changes: One Number Instead of Buckets and Hoses

Water changes are the most thankless routine in aquarium keeping—boring, regular, and easy to postpone until "tomorrow." The Automatic Water Change (AWC) function in Oquari handles this for you: in small portions, quietl…

ATO: Automatic Top-Off That Won’t Flood Your Living Room

ATO (Auto Top-Off) automatically replaces water evaporated from your aquarium. The mechanism is simple—a level sensor and a pump—but this is where the most costly aquarium failures happen. A stuck float can pump an entir…