Problem:
Farm Designer doesn't provide means to create or delete group of plants with one click. It becomes especially annoying when you want to have many plants of the same kind. For example Carrots
Solution:
This farmware attempts to solve this problem by cloning the "original" plant that you create manually. You specify the number of rows and columns and the farmware fills the field with (rows x columns -1) copies of your "original" plant. The spacing between the plants is taken from openfarm database. If you want to delete automatically created plants - do the same but specify "remove" action instead of "add"
Reference:
- ORIGINAL PLANT COORDINATES X,Y: coordinates of your "original" plant (example 150,100 )
- NUMBER OF ROWS: desired number of rows, shall be between 0 and 20
- NUMBER OF COLUMNS: desired number of columns, shall be between 0 and 20
- WHAT TO DO WITH NEW PLANTS: action that will be taken on every new plant:
- "add" - adds a new plant if there is no plant in these coordinates already
- "remove" - removes a plant if found
- "log" - just prints info for debug purposes to the log
Installation:
Use this manifest to register farmware https://raw.githubusercontent.com/etcipnja/Seedalot/master/Seedalot/manifest.json
Bugs:
I noticed that if you change a parameter in WebApplication/Farmware form - you need to place focus on some other field before you click "RUN". Otherwise old value is passed to farmware script even though the new value is displayed in the form.
What is next?
It would be a good idea to add manual override for the spacing between the plants in case if someone doens't like default vaule from openfarm
Thank you, Eugene