The video below goes over how to create a substrate sensor aggregate within Portal 2.0. This video and others can be found at our Growlink University webpage.
Audio Transcript:
Hey, this is Josh with Growlink, and in today's walkthrough we'll be going over how to make a substrate sensor aggregate on a standalone PIC within Growlink Portal 2.0.
You'll start by logging into Portal 2.0 and accessing one of your controllers.
The most common aggregates that are made are either with environmental sensors or substrate sensors.
You'll start by going to the Settings tab for your account.
In the Settings tab, it'll populate all the different controllers you have registered.
In this example, we only have a single controller.
If we select the drop down for this controller, you'll see that we have both a PIC, a Precision Irrigation controller, and an Environment module.
To make an aggregate, all we need to do is tap the Add Modules button up at the top, click the Create Aggregate button at the bottom right, and then select what we want to make an aggregate of.
If we select the Precision irrigation controller, it'll make an aggregate of the four SDI 12 sensors that are plugged into that controller. A standalone PIC can only aggregate all four SDI-12 ports together.
If we wanted to make an aggregate of environmental sensors, then we would select one of our environment modules.
In this case, we're just going to make an aggregate of our substrate sensors, so we're going to select their precision irrigation controller.
Here we can give the aggregate a name, in this case substrate sensor average, and then the source module in this case is just the precision irrigation controller.
If we had multiple environmental sensors or we had multiple different zones (Requires the PIC to be converted into a module underneath a panel), we could select the modules that we wanted to be a part of this aggregate.
Once we hit save changes, we can update the controller with this change and then we'll have a new set of sensor data that we can pull from.
If we select the sensor, we'll see that we'll have a substrate moisture average, a substrate temperature average, and a substrate EC average that we can use and call in rules.
This concludes how you would make a substrate sensor aggregate within Portal 2.0.