16 · BrainBASIC

Brain: asking someone who has seen your sensors

Brain is the app's chat, and what makes it different from any other one is that it comes into the conversation with a snapshot of the real state of your zone. Ask it why the VPD is running high and it answers with your numbers, not with generalities.

FIG 14 · Brain chat. On a wide screen it lives as a column next to the dashboard.

What it can do

Answer with context: It sees your zone: sensors, equipment, stage, waterings. It calls you by your nickname.
Cite documentation: It has an agronomy knowledge base in several languages: it cites, it doesn't make things up.
Speak first: It sends proactive messages when it sees something odd or something left unconfigured. The number on the little brain is how many you haven't read.
Get hands-on: It doesn't just talk: it proposes configuration changes and applies them, turns a specific outlet on or off, and proposes improvements to your protocols. It shows you everything it touches before doing it.
Live voice: You talk, it listens and answers out loud, and you can interrupt it mid-sentence. Handy when your hands are busy.
Trivia: A quiz game inside the chat. You turn it on and off from ☰ → Settings.

Do this

Ask it concrete things about your tent ("was last night's dryback normal?"). That's where it beats searching the internet.

Avoid this

Don't ask it to make big configuration changes without looking at what it proposes. It shows you first precisely so that you read it.

How urgent it is

EssentialNothing.

ImportantRead the proactive messages: they usually flag something left unconfigured.

OptionalVoice and trivia.