This article describes how to add zones to rooms, and assign sensors to different zones

Index

1. Prerequisites

2. Consideration on how to name zones

3. Adding Zones

4. Editing and Deleting Zones

5. Editing and Deleting Sensors

Prerequisites

• Must have added at least one sensor integration in order to add sensors to your zones.

Considerations on how to name zones

There are a variety of strategies when it comes to creating zones your rooms. It is also important to understand that a single sensor can be shared across many zones. Here are some examples to help you.

• By bench / table

  • Good

    • Rooms with multiple sensors

    • Rooms with multiple valves feeding the different benches

    • More granular plant location information

  • Bad

    • More granular plant information comes with clicks when moving plants or creating plant batches. You'll need to specify which zone plants move to.

  • This is a solid strategy if you have many sensors spanning many zones. For example, in Flower Room 1 I have 10 root zone sensors across 5 benches, and one room environmental sensor in the middle of the room. I may want to have 5 zones named "Bench 1", "Bench 2", etc..Each zone/bench would then have its 2 root zone sensors assigned and the environmental sensor would be added to each of the 5 zones. That way I can look at each zone and get a picture of its individual root zone environment and the room's environment.

• Larger Zones

  • Good

    • Rooms with a single sensor

    • Less to set up up-front

    • Less to manage when creating and moving plants around the system

  • This is a solid strategy if you are working with room sensors only, no root zone sensors, and you don't particularly care for more granular plant locations. For example, if I have a single TrolMaster Hydro-x controller in a room and sensors to monitor the RH, CO2, and Temperature, then I'll name my zone the same as my room name and assign the sensors from the Hydro-X pro to that zone.

Adding Zones

1. Head to the Facilities menu

2. Click on the ellipse menu (...) next to the room you'd like to add a zone, or zones, to and click Zones

3. Add as many zones as you'd like in the chosen room

4. Now you're ready to assign sensors to each zone. Click on the ⌵ icon all the way to the right hand side of the zone

5. Click + Add Sensor, choose your device(s), then select the sensors for the particular zone you're editing

6. Rinse and repeat across each zone, and each room until every room has at least one zone and, if present, each zone has sensors assigned

Editing and Deleting Zones

1. Head to the Facilities menu

2. Click on the ellipse menu (...) next to the room you'd like to edit a zone, or zones, from and click Zones

3. Click the ellipse menu (...) next to the zone you'd like to edit or delete and choose the relevant action. Rooms can be renamed or deleted at will. This will not impact historical information. i.e. In historical reports, zones will be named what they were at the time the data was captured, not what they are presently named.

4. Rinse and repeat steps 2 and 3 until you're done editing zones

Editing and Deleting Sensors

Note: If you have added sensors follow the steps in this article to refresh your sensors, then come back here to edit the zone with the new sensor information.

1. Head to the Facilities menu

2. Click on the ellipse menu (...) next to the room you'd like to edit a sensor, or sensors, from and click Zones

3. Click on the ⌵ icon all the way to the right hand side of the zone that contains the sensor in question

4. Use the trash can icon next to sensors you want to delete, or use the + Add Sensor button to add new sensors

5. Rinse and repeat

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