THI duplication in calendar

[e-peltier18]

(The bug appears for the SIP 2 interface, maybe others maybe not)
The integration of the THI parameter in the calendar results in duplication of the value for the same time : for the same day (e.g Oct 1st 2025) we have 3 sets (for 3 different day-time) of 4 data each with a time range of 1 second. Is it possible to maintain the 3 sets of data (1 for the morning, 1 early afternoon, 1 evening) with only 1 data for each ?

[arruda]

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[fedjo]

Hello @e-peltier18

I went throught the SIP2 deployment and I understood that the is no duplication bug.

The number of times the THI value appears in the Farm Calender is equal to the number of Parcels added in the calendar.

For instance I see that you have 5 parcels added in the calendar, and thus 5 different values for THI.

In the latest version of WeatherSrv/FarmCalendar we have updated the title of the THI observation in order to be more self-explanatory like:

My Farm: parcel_name - THI: 79.46

but we have not changes the number or observations created (you will still see 5 data). Is that sufficient for your use case?

Considering that THI is calculated from temperature & humidity in a specific location, if you want to display 1 data which one (for which parcel) would that be?

[e-peltier18]

Hello @fedjo !

Thank you for your investigations and the explanation for such duplication. I didn't have in mind that the number of THI values shown in the calendar is linked to the number of parcels we registered ! I understand way better now, thank you !

For our use case, the THI indicator is used as a parameter for getting a first idea on the animal welfare on field. If we could get only three THI values per day per user (the first for morning THI, the second around noon, and the third for the evening), without taking account of the number of parcels of the farms, that might be more user-friendly for our case.

Maybe by getting the mean for each sequence of THI values ?

Thanks again for these explanation.

[fedjo]

@e-peltier18 THI is calculated using temperature & humidity. Thus it is referring to a specific place. Could be a location, a room, etc

If you want one THI value you should specify where this value will refer to. We could also potentially provide a mean value of all THI values of each parcels but I am sure if that would be useful for you.

[e-peltier18]

Hi @fedjo !

Thank you for the explanation. I discussed this topic with my colleagues and we will adapt our use of FarmCalendar according to this specification (register only the parcels used for this year's pasture program). Thus we wil only get the THI values for parcels where animals are grazing.

Another topic appeared during our discussions : is it possible to implement a ranking scale for the parcels we registered ? The idea beneath that is to plan our field-occupation program such as "#1 parcel is the first were animals will be grazing ; #2 is the second ; ..." and so on. Or to establish one parcel as the main one and get to filter only its THI values in the calendar tool ?

Once again, I thank you very much for all the pieces of information you provided, it helped us to better understand the possibilities of the FarmCalendar tool.

[fedjo]

Hi @e-peltier18

Great! The solution to use only parcels where animals are grazing seems legit!

For your second topic regarding filtering, I will add in the conversation my colleague @arruda who has better knowledge of the FarmCalendar.

[arruda]

Hello @e-peltier18, can you clarify for me what you mean by this parcel ranking?

Another topic appeared during our discussions : is it possible to implement a ranking scale for the parcels we registered ? The idea beneath that is to plan our field-occupation program such as "#1 parcel is the first were animals will be grazing ; #2 is the second ; ..." and so on. Or to establish one parcel as the main one and get to filter only its THI values in the calendar tool ?

Do you want to rank them based on what specifically?
Also, once you ranked them, for what do you want to use this ranking for? I'm trying to understand in what page/view this would be used.

[e-peltier18]

Hi @fedjo and @arruda !

Thanks for the review and the questions.

Our idea is to get a way to link the parcels with our planned use of them during the pasture season. We have a planning of occupation of the parcels to optimize the use of the fields for all the season, to optimize the pasture and manage the degradation of parcels. So, the farmer will rank the parcels by himself, according to this planning.

The "ranking idea" is relevant linked with this planning : during the dates where parcel ranked #1 is used, we only get the values for this parcel #1 (THI values especially) in the calendar tool. When today is past the date of occupation, we get the information of parcel #2, and so on. Thus we have the right information in the right time for the right place.

From my point of view, we could implement the ranking tool on the "Parcels" sub-menu, and get the results of the ranking in the "Calendar" sub-menu. But I don't know if that's easy to implement or not...

Once again, thank you for your remarks !

[fedjo]

Thanks for the feature proposal @e-peltier18. It seems more clear to me now and it's a good starting point for an internal discussion. Once again, you can also join today's OpenAgri regular call with SIPS, to discuss a bit more.