You generally will not need to manually control FarmBot, since it acts automatically from instructions provided by Farm Events. But in case you want to show off to your friends, you can do that from this page!

Widgets on this page:

Controls
Click a widget in the image to learn more!

Move

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  • The current position of your FarmBot is shown in the input fields labeled X-AXIS, Y-AXIS, and Z-AXIS. This information is updated in real-time.
  • You can move the device a relative distance in any direction by using the arrow buttons. The default move amount is 100mm, though you can also select 1, 10, and 1000mm amounts. You will not be able to move to negative coordinates unless you have enabled them from the Hardware configuration widget on the Device page.
  • The home button will move FarmBot to zero for all axes by first moving the Z axis to zero, then the other axes to zero.
  • You can move the device to an absolute position by typing in new coordinates to the input fields labeled X-AXIS, Y-AXIS, and Z-AXIS and pressing GO.
  • If you ever need to immediately halt your FarmBot, press the E-STOP button.

Peripherals

You can manually operate FarmBot’s peripherals using the toggle switches in the Peripherals widget.

The pins can be changed to the pins used when plugging in the peripherals in this step of the hardware documentation.

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Press the toggle switch to turn a peripheral ON or OFF.

Edit

To change the peripherals, press EDIT.

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Add a new peripheral by pressing the + button and filling out Label and Pin #. To delete a peripheral, press it’s - button. When finished editing, press SAVE.

Note that pin numbers are required and must be unique.

Camera

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The Camera widget can be used for a network stream setup using a webcam. You could use the video stream for a view of the entire bot to view movements while controlling it remotely, or you could set up a webcam at a different angle for viewing plants, etc..

You will need to set up a network webcam, and provide the network stream’s IP address to the widget.

Edit

To set the webcam URL, press EDIT, enter a URL (with http://) and press SAVE.

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