Flashes Firmware 11 times a day?

[roryaronson]

@masze thank you again for the helpful feedback! I have a lot of perfectionism in me as well, and always strive to continuously improve things. Its always a tough balancing act though with adhering to a timeline to ship something. Ie: taking a list of 10 things that need to be improved, choosing to tackle just two and half of them and shipping the improvements to everyone sooner, while saving the rest of the issues for the next version.

For the issues you mentioned, I am happy to report that we already have features for most of what you’re asking for! (Which means we really need to improve our documentation a bit and the ways in which we communicate updates to users like yourself ) Here is some info you may have missed:

Calibrate water flow rate

@masze

I then expected that I can calibrate the watering within the settings like “Put a graduated mug under the watering nozzle and hit “Start” after that put the amount measured here”.

You can indeed place a graduated mug under under the watering nozzle and with one click get a WATER FLOW RATE (mL/s), which can be used by the FarmBot via the dispense(mL) and water(plant) Lua functions, which are used in some of our featured sequences. Here is more information:

December 14, 2022 Software Update

Hello all, We’ve got some new updates for you in the FarmBot web app: Water flow rate You can now add a WATER FLOW RATE to any tool with “Watering Nozzle” in the name. This new field is measured in mL/s and allows your FarmBot to calculate how long it should keep the solenoid valve open to dispense a certain volume of water. Because each FarmBot will be a little different based on input water pressure, length of tubing, etc, we’ve added an informational tooltip and a quick-run sequence to th…

Water using curve

@masze

I also expected a new command where I can select a pant or group of plants and the according watering curve.

Once you have the flow rate defined, you can use that in your own custom Lua code and/or with one of our featured sequences, such as this simple one to Water Using Curve. Just import the sequence into your account and then you can use it as a command in other sequences

April 11, 2023 Software and Documentation Update

Hello all, Today we released a new version of FarmBot OS, the web app, several of our featured sequences, and published updates to our developer documentation. Here’s what’s new: water(plant) Lua helper We’ve added a new high-level water(plant) Lua helper that moves FarmBot to above a plant and waters it based on its age and assigned watering curve. Note that plants must have a status of “Planted”, and if you’re using this with FarmBot Genesis devices you’ll need to first mount the watering n…

Lua for all

@masze

As example the LUA integration: Great and perfect for nerds but unusable for a non IT experienced standard user.

Stay tuned for some AI magic

Regarding future electronics

@jan.janson thanks for letting us know you use that connector for your camera extension. Hearing more how our customers use the product as well as which add-ons/modifications they are using help inform us where to evolve the platform. I can’t make any guarantees that that exact modification will be supported in future versions, as we generally need to focus on the 95% use case the most. Though rest assured, even when a new electronics platform comes out in a new version of the FarmBot, you’ll still be able to use your existing setup.

Up until this point we have always tried our best to ensure backwards compatibility, but at some point the course of technology is that you have to make breaking changes to move the platform forwards. Those changes will simultaneously not be compatible with some legacy use cases, but also open up many new use cases!