This is veering towards a ‘new feature request’.
Today I wanted to set the generator to run for 1 hour. In practice I did this using the Periodic run feature within the Generator start/stop settings on the remote console. This was a ‘one-off’ where I wanted to run the generator at a specific time, as well as for a fixed time. If the Controls panel on the vrm dashboard had a relatively minor tweek, I could have done this much quicker and simpler from there. The extra feature needed would be to add a ‘delay’ option with zero minutes as the default. That way those wishing to do an instant manual generator start via the dashboard are not inconvenienced; and I could have quickly added in a delay and achieved what I wanted to much more quickly and simply.
Just a thought.