Pioreactor/pioreactor

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Hardware and software for accessible, extensible, and scalable bioreactors. Built on Raspberry Pi.

Stars: 149
Forks: 18
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 58

Dominant language: Python
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 9, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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58 open issues indexed

need some way for tasks / sessions to refresh their config without restart web.target Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#606 · Opened Jan 17, 2026
Possible bug with rpi zero 2 and wifi? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#597 · Opened Nov 10, 2025
Update temperature_automation to use live vial volume Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#588 · Opened Aug 29, 2025
Use REF to vary LED output? Open

turbidity / OD signal / optics

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#587 · Opened Aug 27, 2025
Export data with time filter does not work in safari Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#584 · Opened Aug 8, 2025
Annotations Open

logging sql / database user interface

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#575 · Opened Jun 29, 2025
including stirring RPM in OD calibrations Open

calibration stirring turbidity / OD signal / optics

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#574 · Opened Jun 27, 2025
Can't access the pioreactor ui Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#560 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 3, 2025
Sync-configs not syncing from UI to worker -> `pios sync-configs` asking for password to push to worker Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#555 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 21, 2025
Update to Latest Release Over Internet Leads to 500 Errors Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#540 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 23, 2024
rsync permissions Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#538 · Opened Dec 13, 2024
Allow for workers port != leaders port Open

configuration networking user interface

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#526 · Opened Oct 3, 2024
a pre-heating cycle? Open

plugins temperature / heating

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#512 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 18, 2024
MQTT reconnections can cause a stampede of messages (and events) Open

mqtt networking

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#509 · Opened Jun 9, 2024
migrate db stables to STRICT mode Open

sql / database

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#484 · Opened Mar 30, 2024
[wip] Integrating pH / DO probes (software only) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#483 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 15, 2024
plugin to directly control PWM % Open

plugins pwm

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#480 · Opened Mar 9, 2024
Wifi connection improvements Open

networking

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#475 · Opened Feb 17, 2024
[what happened] Hall sensor signal and i2c were shorted Open

hardware

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#470 · Opened Feb 7, 2024
[what happened] unable to locate <hostname>.local or pioreactor.local OR jobs feel sluggish to start Open

networking performance

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#459 · Opened Dec 4, 2023
[what happened] HAT not detected: `/proc/device-tree/hat` empty Open

hardware what-happened

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#458 · Opened Nov 30, 2023
flakey button? Open

bug hardware

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#457 · Opened Nov 30, 2023
algae plugin Open

plugins

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#454 · Opened Nov 23, 2023
Luminostat Open

enhancement leds turbidity / OD signal / optics

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#453 · Opened Nov 23, 2023
Abstract out pin library Open

enhancement image/os

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#444 · Opened Oct 30, 2023
More AP clients? Open

networking

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#442 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 26, 2023
race condition when software-pwms stop and lgpio needs to clean up Open

pwm

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#435 · Opened Oct 19, 2023
start up jobs not publishing to mqtt if hostname = `pioreactor` Open

job mqtt networking

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#426 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 1, 2023
[what happened] Dosing automation base's has a race condition that doesn't ended the job properly. Open

bug dosing algorithms job what-happened

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#420 · Opened Sep 10, 2023
[what happened] UI wasn't connecting to server / "attempt to write a readonly database" in UI logs Open

sql / database user interface

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#418 · Opened Jul 21, 2023
Consider pluggy to handle plugins Open

future plugins

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#417 · Opened Jul 18, 2023
Implement calibration monitoring during dosing automations Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#412 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 23, 2023
check for when internal pump tubing should be replaced? Open

dosing algorithms hardware safety

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#400 · Opened May 20, 2023
Using plugins in scripts and REPL Open

bug plugins

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#389 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 9, 2023
[what happened] Pi turns off as soon as Stirring / Pumping starts Open

bug hardware what-happened

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#387 · Opened Mar 5, 2023
In local access point, when powered off, the time reverts back to init time Open

local access point

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#372 · Opened Jan 16, 2023
How can users add more pumps? Open

dosing algorithms user interface

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#369 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 4, 2023
turn callback helpers in ODReader to decorators Open

enhancement future good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#359 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 2, 2022
[what happened] Temperature doesn't stabilize when vial is missing Open

temperature / heating what-happened

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#354 · Opened Nov 7, 2022
Before pumping, we should check that the voltage used during calibration is equal to current voltage Open

dosing algorithms turbidity / OD signal / optics

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#353 · Opened Nov 1, 2022
Add "baseline" DC to thermostat automation Open

temperature / heating

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#333 · Opened Sep 6, 2022
[what happened] forgot stirbar Open

turbidity / OD signal / optics what-happened

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#311 · Opened Jul 18, 2022
[what happened] temperature crawls up Open

temperature / heating what-happened

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#300 · Opened Jun 18, 2022
[what happened] spikes in OD Open

turbidity / OD signal / optics what-happened

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#299 · Opened Jun 16, 2022
[what happened] OD started reporting strange values due to leak Open

hardware safety turbidity / OD signal / optics

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#298 · Opened Jun 10, 2022
For high temperature setpoints, still observe some periodicity Open

temperature / heating turbidity / OD signal / optics

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#292 · Opened Jun 1, 2022
[what happened] strange noise during experiment Open

turbidity / OD signal / optics what-happened

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#288 · 4 comments · Opened May 26, 2022
Continuously backup the database instead of batch backups Open

future plugins sql / database

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#270 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 25, 2022
[what happened] temperature inference when vial isn't pressed all the way down into sleeve Open

temperature / heating what-happened

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#256 · Opened Mar 6, 2022
[what happened] power cycled a pioreactor worker, but status in UI is "lost" Open

mqtt what-happened

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Pioreactor/pioreactor#252 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 22, 2022

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