FarmBot / FarmBot/Farmbot-Web-App

Check weather data before watering to save water.

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Description

Basic idea:
The user can already enter the location of their FarmBot as coordinates.

Based on these coordinates we could look up the weather/rain forecast.
This data could then be used to decide if watering should proceed or be canceled for now.

For example:
Depending on your location, especially during the hot summer months, water can be quite scarce.
A user might have a regimen set up that waters the garden every day. If it happens to rain a lot 10 minutes after watering, we wasted water.

By checking the rain forecast before watering and using it as a condition, this scenario could be avoided.

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Is a feature like this of interest to the FarmBot team?

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