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How to set up your trough alerts & notifications
How to set up your trough alerts & notifications

Set up your trough alerts to let you know when your trough levels are either too low or too high which may indicate a problem.

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Overview

Trough sensors track the average and minimum water level in your trough for each transmission period.

For example, by looking at your MyFarmbot trough graph, you can see that between 2 pm and 4 pm, the average water level was 20 cm and the minimum water level was 8 cm.

Since trough levels can fluctuate significantly in any given period, the alerts are based on the average water level.

Trough Alert Types explained

Trough alerts can be set to notify you when:

  1. Average Level High

    1. For example, when the average water level is 60 cm or higher in a transmission period, a warning alert is sent.

    2. We recommend setting this at 105% of the trough's height

  2. Average Level Low

    1. For example, when the average water level is 5 cm or lower in a transmission period, a warning alert is sent.

    2. We recommend setting this at 20% of the trough's height

    3. If the minimum level meets the alert trigger condition but the average level does not, then an alert will not be sent as it means the trough water level has recovered

Steps to set Trough Alerts

  1. In the navbar, go to Troughs and select the trough you want to set alerts for.

2. Go to settings (three dots) and select Alert Triggers.

3. Open the different alert types and set the appropriate value and click save.

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