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Home page

The Home page is the main control center of the web interface. It includes:

• A clock showing the current time at the location of the controller. This also appears on all pages.

• A navigation bar at the top for moving between pages of the interface. This is also present on the other pages except the login page

• A set of buttons for making global changes to the behavior of the system including

  1. System on - off for controlling the overall operation of the software
  2. A button that allows setting the "water Level" which is a global percentage the run time for all irrigation programs
  3. A "Rain Delay" button which allows suspending irrigation for all stations except ones that have been set to ignore rain on the Stations page.
  4. An Auto/Manual button which switches the system between normal, automatic mode, and manual mode which allows direct control of stations.

• A time line that provides information about completed and scheduled irrigation events

• A "Stop all Stations" button for immediate cancellation of a running irrigation program or station

• A footer that is present on all pages. The footer includes:

  1. A Help button labeled "?" which opens a separate browser tab with content from the project's Documentation Wiki
  2. The Temperature of the Raspberry pi's CPU. The displayed temperature can be toggled between C and F by clicking the temperature shown.
  3. A link to the project's software repository and the revision number of the installed software