Now that we have all the modules and respective peripherals configured,
let's start to create our Areas and Grows.
But before let's give a quick look to all the modules and peripherals we have connected.
Keep in mind that you may not have all modules,
or the peripherals shown here,
it's essential to understand the function of each one so you can better understand the Area creation.
PowerBot has is own sensor of temperature and humidity,
a 600 watts lamp,
the extraction system, that can be several extractors connected to the same outlet,
one water pump and a humidifier.
This last sensor indicates the temperature of the module and it will not be available to use in the Area configuration.
SoilBot has a full lateral of sensors connected.
One first moisture sensor for the moisture of our first grow,
a second one for the other group of plants,
a temperature sensor for the growing medium and a flood detector for our first grow.
Remember the importance of giving distinct names to all sensors and actuators,
since later we'll need to recognize them.
Finally TankBot has three electro valves.
One so you can water feed the first grow, a second one to water feed the second grow, and a last one to refill your water tank.
We also connected a peristaltic pump to control the nutrients in our water tank.
We add an EC Probe, the water temperature sensor and the PH probe.
Has input sensors we have a smoke detector, a motion detector,
and two switch sensors for the maximum and minimum level of the water tank.
Now let's start to create our first growing Area.
One Area is a physical space that contains our grows.
It has variables like the light, the temperature or the humidity that apply equal to your both grows.
So, if you have a huge growing area with independent grow zones with
their own climate characteristics,
you should create different areas for each one of them.
We name our Area,
and we select the illustration that better represents our growing Area.
In this example we will use a Grow Room.
The start date of your grow it's important to delay its beginning,
and also to establish a starting point for an advanced light cycle.
We'll ignore this field at the moment.
We accept to continue.
In the top menu we have a list with all the sensors we have connected to our modules.
To the right, all the peripherals.
Let's start by dragging the lamp.
A warning is showed asking if we want to change our Area to an indoor Area,
this happens because you can also configured your day/night astronomical, outdoor Area.
We accept it.
And as we can see the check box for Indoor is active. And the one for Outdoor is deactivated.
Now we include our extraction system,
the humidifier,
the motion detector,
the smoke detector,
and finally the temperature and humidity sensor.
In the top left corner we have an icon with a letter design.
If you activate this icon, you are allowing the GroNode to send notification e-mails to the e-mail configured before,
with all information of our growing Area.
Let's activate it leaving the icon in an exclamation blue.
In the lower left, you can see the total amount of energy your Area will consume.
Now lets create our grows so the power consumption gets even more accurate.
Now let's configure the light.
We have the classical system based on a 24 hours day.
With a time to start and a time to end.
You can select the type of lamp that your are using, vegetative, flowering or mixed.
There's an advanced option that allows you to create day/night schedules with more freedom.
Therefore the importance of defining the start date to your Area,
Since this will be the reference starting point for the calculation of the day/night cycles.
If you are growing Outdoor, we can set the day/night cycles astronomical, based on our location.
We can also change it using the map.
It's really important for the system to know when it's day or night,
since you can create alarms that work only in one or other light cycle.
Now that we have our Area configured let's start to create our first Grow.
Check the second part of this tutorial.