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etcipnja / MLH

[FARMWARE] Mother's little helper
MIT License
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Optimise order of watering plants #3

Closed derletztename closed 6 years ago

derletztename commented 6 years ago

At least on my bot the farmbot moves not in an efficient manner over the field and therefor wasting time and energy. Could something like a Nearest-Neighbour-Heuristik be implemented? Or maybe just go from X axis 0 to max watering all plants that need watering in "rows" of y axis?

etcipnja commented 6 years ago

Thank you for feedback! I recently added sorting by plant name first. This is a reason of inefficient movement. I think I'll be able to remove it as sorting by name is only needed in a new feature where I want to water several small plants (like Carrots) nonstop (i.e. without turning off water). The fix will be available in couple of days.

derletztename commented 6 years ago

Thank you etcipnja :)

etcipnja commented 6 years ago

should be fixed in 2.4.1 (master) https://raw.githubusercontent.com/etcipnja/MLH/master/MLH/manifest.json

derletztename commented 6 years ago

Awesome, thx etcipnja :) Do I have to "install" it again in the farmbot web app or will it work automatically?

etcipnja commented 6 years ago

it depends if you are on master or dev branch. Try to update what you have and if you don't see 2.4.1 - install new

derletztename commented 6 years ago

Hello Eugene I am very sorry to kind of reopen this old issue. At least on my farmbot it seems still very inefficient the way the bot drives around the field. I guess it goes through by plant name doing one kind of plant after another? Couldn't it be changed to start at x axis 0 (home) and then moves in y axis movements to x axis max? I would assume this is a lot faster and energy efficient. This is extremely important for me, as the farmbot is very off grid and powered by solar power (wind energy will follow soon - in germany there is usually more wind than sun). If you are interested we could collaborate on this via any chat program your prefer Best regards Paul

PS: I haven't written before as I had huge troubles to get my farmbot working at all. X axis was always stalling. Now it seems to work and now the efficiency issue is coming up again ;)