• Creating peripherals
• Controlling peripherals
  • Manual control
  • Sequence based control
• Deleting peripherals
• What’s next?

The PERIPHERALS widget allows you to manage FarmBot’s peripherals and control them in real-time with toggle switches.

Creating peripherals

To create a new peripheral, press EDIT, and then the button. Provide a Name and Select a pin to define the peripheral. Alternatively, press FARMDUINO to add all of the standard Farmduino peripherals.

Note that pin numbers are required and must be unique.

When finished editing, press SAVE.

Controlling peripherals

Manual control

You can press a toggle switch to manually control a peripheral when FarmBot is connected and idle. If FarmBot is disconnected or busy, pressing a toggle switch will have no effect. Refer to the table below for all possible states of the toggle switches.

When a toggle is	The peripheral’s state is	Clicking the toggle will
ON	ON	Turn the peripheral OFF
OFF	OFF	Turn the peripheral ON
	Unknown	Turn the peripheral OFF
ON	ON	Not have any effect (FarmBot is busy)
OFF	OFF	Not have any effect (FarmBot is busy)
	Unknown	Not have any effect (FarmBot is not connected)

📘 Coming soon

In the future we plan to offer slider controls for analog peripherals.

Sequence based control

You can also control peripherals from sequences by using the Control Peripheral command. For more information, see the control peripheral command documentation.

Deleting peripherals

To delete a peripheral, press edit and then the peripheral’s button. Finish editing by pressing back.

📘 Coming soon

You cannot delete a peripheral that is in-use by a sequence.

What’s next?

• Webcam Feeds

  Monitor your FarmBot from a distance