Move Absolute only on Z axis

Elon · March 13, 2020, 2:38pm

Hi everyone. I have a suggestion. When the Farmbot is moving it can hit plants or toolbays. Moving UTM to the “safe” height before any following action would solve the problem. But there is no way to perform absolute move for a single axis!

RickCarlino · March 14, 2020, 8:14pm

@Elon This is a very popular feature request which has been referred to as “Safe-Z”. It has not yet been implemented in FarmBot OS, but it is on the roadmap for implementation eventually. It can be found on our software project tracker.

RickCarlino · March 14, 2020, 8:43pm

@Elon Here is a way to work around the fact that FBOS does not yet support “Safe-Z” operations.

Main Sequence (Recursive)

Sub Sequence (Moves Z +10 Incrementally)

Elon · March 14, 2020, 10:16pm

Thanks, that is really helpful

ooswald · May 21, 2020, 8:09am

A rather simple and easy to understand change would be to add “Current Farmbot Location” to the “coordinates” dropdown. And ideally also in location variable dropdown.

whitecaps · May 22, 2020, 1:12am

Maybe add a feature request?

jensGeorgsen · June 12, 2020, 8:05pm

Thanks for the idea. I had not imagined that it was possible to solve this issue with the sequence editor. The solution appeared a little slow to me so I did a modification to accelerate the process. Note that my zero position is at the highest point of the end effector.