 automatically if there's like thunder and lightning somehow it knows that and it won't run because of course that's a safety hazard and safety is one of the key key components there otherwise it just there's a little uh button on the ground that most kids have found by now that you just sort of step on it or cover it with your foot and it's it runs for four minutes at a time and four minutes seems like a short time but you know the flip side of that is that we don't want it running when nobody's there so we want to we want to conserve water