Foreword: In this article the term "setpoint" when used on its own will refer to the data structure containing all the control parameters for a room at a given time, not the target control value a room is set to try to achieve (i.e. for temperature one of the multiple "setpoints" configured for a room will contain the target temperature environmental setpoint, the deadbands and differentials for each hardware stage, and the grow hour for when those parameters become active for the room). References to the target parameter setpoint will explicitly say "environmental setpoints" to attempt to differentiate those terms from the more general "setpoint" term used in the context of the "multiple setpoint" functionality of the software.
The Preset functionality is an interface for saving and loading entire rooms' worth of setpoint parameters to quickly configure many similar rooms in a facility, or to save settings to be transferred to other facilities or kept as a backups. If you have multiple rooms with mostly the same hardware and want an easy and fast way to apply the same settings to multiple rooms, presets are what you want to use.
There are two basic methods for saving or loading presets: one is for individual setpoints within a room's control parameter settings page, and the other is to save or load all the setpoints for multiple control parameters for an entire room from the recipe page. These will be referred to as **"Page Presets" **and **"Room Presets" **respectively and this section will be split to address them both, starting with the smaller-scale page presets.
Page presets are a method of saving all the parameters of a single setpoint, which can backed up or applied to other single setpoints. Page presets do not save or load grow hour information when used, so the user can keep custom timing for each of the setpoints and only change the parameter values when this method is used.
For specific information on what these parameters control in a room, see the appropriate environmental control settings page for more details. The parameters that are saved or loaded when using the page presets for each control type are shown below:
Temperature
Elements saved in a page preset for temperature highlighted.