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AI & species knowledge

Verdant asks OpenRouter for two things only: a species name when you upload a photo, and a one-time care profile per species (cached, and yours to edit). Everything else runs on plain rules, so costs stay near zero.

OpenRouter API keyA key is saved. Paste a new one to replace it.

Vision modelIdentifies species from photos.Reasoning modelWrites species care profiles.

Home Assistant

Point Verdant at your Home Assistant and the hourly check switches from species estimates to live sensor readings — and only runs while the sun is up.

Home Assistant URLe.g. http://homeassistant.local:8123Long-lived access tokenA token is saved. Paste a new one to replace it.

Weather

Outdoor plants care about the sky. Point Verdant at your Home Assistant weather entity, or let Open-Meteo cover it — then rain counts as watering, reminders defer when rain is coming, and frost, heat, and wind warnings land as they’re forecast.

Source

Weather entity

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Your Home Assistant weather.* entity — current conditions and forecast.

LatitudeOptional — sets your hemisphere for seasonal care.LongitudeOptional.

Defer watering above

Skip watering reminders when this much rain is forecast in 24 h.Wind alert above

km/h

Warn for wind-sensitive plants when gusts top this.

Notifications

When a task comes due, a plant needs a closer look, or the weekly review lands, Verdant can nudge you through Home Assistant or an outbound webhook — muted during quiet hours.

Send to Home AssistantPushes to your phones through the HA companion app — the primary channel.Outbound webhook URLOptional. Receives a JSON POST for every notification.

Notify me about

Care tasksWatering, feeding, and misting reminders as they come due.AI alertsWhen a plant shows a trend worth a closer look.Weekly reviewThe Sunday-morning household summary.

Quiet fromHeld, not dropped.Quiet untilLeave blank for none.

Floors

One plan image per floor — replace an image any time; pins keep their spots because positions are stored as proportions. Mark a floor outdoor to run its plants on weather instead of room sensors.

3 plants

Replace image

Add a floor

Name

Choose plan image

Rooms

Name the rooms on each floor and draw their areas on the plan. Plants dragged inside a drawn area pick up its room automatically, and sensors assigned to a room share their readings with every plant in it.

Ground floor

No rooms on this floor yet.

Data

Download everything Verdant knows — plants, care profiles, and the full diary — as one JSON file. Your API keys and connection tokens are never included.

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