The Mobile App

The Every.Farm mobile app is for work in the field. It uses your phone's GPS to place what you record on the map, so you do not tap a location yourself. It uses the same account, farms and collectors as the web app: collectors and prescriptions made on the web appear on the phone, and what you record on the phone is saved to your farm.

Each section below has a video of about a minute.

#Sign in and pick your farm

1. Open the app and sign in with the email and password you use on the web. Sign Up creates a new account.
2. Your farm opens with its collectors listed. If you work on more than one farm, tap the farm name and search for the one you want.
3. The first time you open a collector, the app asks to use your location. Choose Allow While Using App. You appear on the map as a blue dot.

#Record a point

1. On the home screen, tap the collector you want to use. Collectors are made on the web: see Data Collectors.
2. The map shows the points already recorded in yellow and your position in blue. When you reach the spot, tap Add Data Point.
3. Your location is filled in, with its accuracy shown at the top. Answer the questions your collector asks. A photo question opens the camera.
4. Tap Save. The point is added where you were standing. The list button at the top shows everything recorded, newest first.

#Walk back to a point

1. Open the collector, switch to the list and tap a point.
2. Tap Navigate to Point.
3. The screen shows the distance to the point and an arrow pointing toward it. The number is red when you are more than 100 m away, orange inside 100 m and green inside 20 m.
4. Within about 3 m the screen reads You have arrived! Your position, the target and the GPS accuracy are listed at the bottom.

#Review and fix a point

1. In the list, tap a point. The top of the page shows where and when it was recorded; scroll down for the answers from the form.
2. Tap the pencil beside Data Fields to change an answer. The location is locked, so the point does not move.
3. Tap Update. The change is saved with the time it was made, and the dataset is rebuilt so the map and list show it.

#Follow a prescription

A prescription is made in Variable Rate Mode on the web: give each zone a rate, then choose Start or Download there to save it.

1. On the home screen, tap Variable rate. The prescriptions saved for the farm are listed with their zones and unit.
2. Tap one. The target rate for the zone you are in fills the top of the screen, with the zone and its range below, and a map of the zones and your position underneath.
3. When you cross into another zone the rate changes. Outside every zone it reads 0 and says Outside the zones.
4. Tap Stop when you are done.

Note: The app shows a target. It does not control equipment: set your machine by hand.

Try a practice prescription here lays three practice strips around where you are standing, so you can walk across them and see the rate change. Nothing is saved.

#Record a track

A track is a record of where you have been: a spray pass, a mowing run, a walk around a block.

1. On the home screen, tap Record track.
2. Tick the job you are doing. Manage changes the list of jobs.
3. Tap Start tracking. Time, distance and points count up at the top, and your path is drawn on the map. A point is recorded about every 5 metres while you move, and recording continues with the phone in your pocket.
4. Tap Stop, add a note if you like, and tap Save track. The track is saved to your farm as a dataset.
5. The history button on the home screen lists past tracks. Tap one to see it on the map.