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Let's finish up this section with a review of what we've done so far, what works, and then review

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what we are going to do in the next section.

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So right now, we've got quite a bit of functionality implemented.

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We are able to manually turn the pump on and off.

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Of course, we can control the pump via the actual input from the humidity sensor and we can also calibrate

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the threshold for the pump.

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Of course, we've got gauges that give us information about what is happening with the controller of

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of course, we are monitoring visually the solubility, the real values coming out of the sensor.

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But we also have gauges that tell us what is happening with the voltage that are feeding the microcontroller

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and the motor and everything works quite well.

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Turn on the power supply can see the voltages and voltage input is coming in good, indicating that

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there's plenty of power for the components, the soil humidity.

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Also gives us up to date values of what's going on with the soil humidity can control the pump manually.

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So we can bypass any thresholds and finally we can set the desired threshold set, then the application

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as a whole takes into account to decide when to turn on the modem or not.

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OK, now.

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One issue that we need to correct before we add any more functionality or complicate things further

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is the fact that in our loop we use a delay.

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So this is very inefficient use of the resources of a microcontroller.

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So what I want to do in the next section is to replace the delay function here inside the loop with

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the task scheduler will be using the tusked scheduler to essentially schedule any functionality that

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we've already implemented.

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For example, when to report.

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Your when to put voltages in even later on.

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What we'll do is we'll have a task scheduler to monitor the amount of time that the pump has been kept

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in the on state so that it can automatically cut it off as some security and safety measure so we don't

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flood the terrarium if the pump stays on for too long and perhaps communications with the note read

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flow disrupted.

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So let's continue with the next section where we could reduce the task schedule.