Now that we have all Areas and Grow configured, we can now start to create Schedules.
As we've seen before, our light schedule was created automatically when we saved our Areas configurations
It's possible that you don't have a SoilBot, so you cannot create automatic irrigations
based on the growing medium moisture.
So in this example we'll show you how to create a Schedule to irrigate your plants.
If you have a SoilBot, it's still important you get familiarized with this tool, even
if you are generating your irrigations with other method.
Let's look at it.
We click on the button "Add new Schedule".
A new type of panel opens.
On the top, as usually, you need to name your Schedule.
To the right you have three options for the Schedule type.
When you change the type, different devices are shown or hidden to easy your search.
The first type is "Irrigation", it will show you all devices related to water control.
The next one is "Light", for all your lamps and "General" that will show you all devices.
On the top we have a filter for Areas and Grows.
This is useful if we have a huge amount of devices, simplifying our search.
We just filtered the devices for irrigation on Area 1 and Grow 1.
Let's create an irrigation schedule.
The water pump is no longer the main feed device, but the electro valve connected to TankBot
it's the one that will activate the water pump.
So, we select the electro valve.
In the panel below we can select the weekdays
we want the schedule to happen.
The start time, the duration of the schedule and the time where it ends.
we see that if we change this value, the duration also changes.
Let's define 15 seconds of duration so we can see it working.
This is the recurrence configuration, a cyclic Schedule.
Really useful for hydroponic systems that need to keep the roots always moist.
When the schedule ends, a timeout will start to count that will trigger the schedule again.
In this case, 10 seconds.
To the left we can see the e-mail icon that we already saw in other tools.
To the right, the option of persistence.
Pay close attention to this function, since it's really important for the system.
If you have it activated to a Schedule or an Alarm, this device will forced on
even if other Schedules or Alarms tries to shut it down.
In that way, persistence will make any other turn off order ignored by the system.
We can save the Schedule now.
To finish let's see some of the options available in the main panel.
On the top, the same filters that we saw to select devices, but now to filter
the schedules that belong to Areas or Grows.
To the right of a Schedule, you have a button that allows you to disable the Schedule.
This allows us, without the need to delete the Schedule, to pause the Schedule.
If you want to delete it, you can click on the red cross on the top right corner.
We can also (de)activate the email notifications directly from the mail icon.
On the left you can see the current state of the schedule.
Yellow disabled, green is running and red is inactive/ waiting to activate.
You can also see to which Area or Grow the schedule belongs to, and what device is activated.
If you want to edit a Schedule you just need to click on it.
Finally, we can delete all schedules by pushing the button on the bottom right corner.
Now let's go to the Alarm creation tutorials.