SUPERCYCLERmanual
15 · CameraINTERMEDIATE

Eyes: the grow's camera

Eyes turns an old Android into the tent's camera. It's not just watching: it counts the plants, draws their outline, measures how much space they take up and builds the timelapse with the sensor numbers from each moment on top.

  1. 01Install the Eyes app on the phone you're going to leave inside (☰ → GROW TOOLS → use this phone as a camera, from the app only).
  2. 02Pair it with the QR code the dashboard shows you. The phone gets linked to one zone.
  3. 03Done: the AI EYES card appears on the dashboard with the latest photo.
FIG 13a · AI EYES card: live photo with the current readings on top of it.
FIG 13a · AI EYES card: live photo with the current readings on top of it.
FIG 13b · Full-screen player, with the growth panel.
FIG 13b · Full-screen player, with the growth panel.

What it does, beyond taking photos

Plant count and outline
The AI cuts out each plant and works out how much of the photo it takes up. That way you compare growth day by day no matter the resolution or the camera distance. Violet = normal; orange = delayed growth.
Timelapse with the data on top
Video of the day, the week or the whole grow, with the temperature, humidity, VPD, day and equipment status from that exact frame, in sync.
Light leak detection
It learns what your tent looks like in the dark over seven days and warns you if light gets in at night. It rules out cameras with infrared and needs several frames in a row: it doesn't trip on a single flash.
Night series and live view
WATCH LIVE button on the card, and BRAIN LAB for the large player.
  • An IP camera over FTP works too: you upload the photos to the server and they land on the same timeline.
  • Old photos delete themselves so the disk doesn't fill up. A timelapse that's already been generated survives.
  • If the phone runs out of battery or loses WiFi, the card says so with the "X ago" — it doesn't pass off an old photo as a new one.
Do this
Mount the phone somewhere you won't move it from and keep it charging permanently. The value of a timelapse is that the framing doesn't change for three months.
Avoid this
Don't leave the camera pointing into the light. The contrast ruins plant detection and leaves the darkness baseline useless.

How urgent it is

EssentialNothing: Eyes is optional.
ImportantA fixed, powered camera if you want timelapse.
OptionalLight-leak detection.
The real Brain reads your sensors

This manual explains the app. Brain, inside it, answers about your tent: why your VPD spiked last night, whether that dryback is normal, what to change today.

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Supercycler product manual · the screenshots are from the real app with the SATANIC BRAIN theme (the one that comes by default) · what you see on screen may be named differently depending on the language you have selected.