Request to Add Overall Run Time Clock to App

[John K]

Hey Samer & Ray

Not sure if this is more App related or Firmware related but I have a request that I think wouldn’t be too hard to add and would be very helpful for those of us that use multiple controllers and stations at the same time.

I often run 3 zones at a time, queuing up 30-40 zones back to back, manually. This would be for one controller. I then have to do the mental math to figure out how long it will take all these zones to run total. Lets use the example of 2 hours 35 mins total run time. I then go to my next controller and set a Pause Station Runs to 2 hours 35 mins so that I can proceed with manually setting the next 30-40 stations on this second controller. This prevents the second controller from running its 3 zones at a time at the same time as the first controller (not enough water flow to do that). I then proceed to do the mental math again and then do the same with my 3rd controller (4th and so on).

Its hard to do, I have to estimate based on what I think the average time of each 3 zones running will be (I don’t always run each zone at the same durations so it can get complicated). So I pad out the time a little which ends up wasting time where nothing is running just to avoid both controllers trying to run at same time (think 6 zones…no water flow for that). I need to run water pretty much all day during my peak season so any waiting time when zones are not running puts me behind (drying plants).

MY REQUEST:
I have noticed when you set up a program, there is now a Total Program Run Time Calculation. This helps a lot for planning my schedules. Can we please put a calculation in the green status bar at the bottom that indicates how much time it will take for all the queued zones to run. Or perhaps at the top of the app screen by the weather? This would be all manually queued and programed queued zones combined so we always know how much time it will take to “get it all done.” This would be very helpful and I believe the logic is there since programs can figure out their start times in relation to each other when they run back to back.

Great work on the app and controller guys, they have always been very useful and keep getting better. We that rely on them really appreciate it!

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