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Verde User Manual

Everything you need to set up Verde and keep your garden watering itself.

Contents

  1. Getting started
  2. Adding sensors & valves
  3. Pairing a sensor to a valve
  4. Identifying a plant
  5. AI health checks
  6. Watering & thresholds
  7. Schedules & events
  8. Gardens, zones & areas
  9. Weather & rain‑skip
  10. Smart‑home integration
  11. Setting up AI
  12. Settings & languages
  13. Troubleshooting

1. Getting started

When you first open Verde, a short setup wizard walks you through the essentials. You can re‑run it any time from Settings → Setup wizard.

You can skip most steps and finish them later — only language, terms and privacy are required.

2. Adding sensors & valves

Verde talks to your soil‑moisture sensors and smart valves directly on your Wi‑Fi network.

Scan: On the Assets screen, tap the ＋ tile under Devices. Verde discovers nearby Verde devices automatically using local network discovery.
Name & place: Give each device a clear name and assign it to a zone or area that matches where it lives.

Sensors appear first, then valves. Tap any device tile to open its detail screen; long‑press a tile for Edit or Delete.

3. Pairing a sensor to a valve

Pairing tells Verde which valve to open when a given sensor reports dry soil.

  1. Open the sensor's detail screen.
  2. Choose Paired valve and select the valve that waters that area.
  3. Set the moisture thresholds (section 6) — Verde now waters that zone automatically.

4. Identifying a plant

Tap Identify plant (the camera) on the Assets screen, or the ＋ tile under Plants.

  1. Point your camera at the plant and take a photo.
  2. Verde's AI names the species, flags weeds, and suggests an ideal moisture range.
  3. Give the plant a nickname and assign it to a zone. You can associate it with a sensor so its targets drive watering.
Growing several of the same species? Use Duplicate to add clones — each keeps its own nickname and zone.

5. AI health checks

From any plant's detail screen, tap Health check and take a photo. Verde's AI assesses the plant's condition and notes anything to watch. Each result is saved to the plant's health history so you can see how it's doing over time.

6. Watering & thresholds

Each sensor has a moisture range: Verde opens the paired valve when soil drops below the low threshold and closes it once it reaches the high threshold.

Suggest watering level (AI)

Not sure what to set? Tap Suggest to have Verde recommend thresholds from the plant type and conditions. You can also tap Ask AI for another suggestion and choose which recommendation to apply.

7. Schedules & events

Switch to the Scheduling view to set recurring watering per valve or per zone. A zone schedule can send a message and override the valve based on the sensor. The Events view shows a timeline of what happened — waterings, rain‑skips, threshold alerts and more. Use the magnifying glass to search within any category.

8. Gardens, zones & areas

Organise everything to match your real garden. Group devices and plants into zones, nest them inside gardens, and open a garden tile to jump straight to that zone. You can reorder how groups (Devices, Plants, Gardens) appear on the Assets screen.

9. Weather & rain‑skip

With a weather service enabled, Verde checks the forecast before watering. If rain has fallen or is expected, it skips the cycle so you don't water for free. Set the rain thresholds per valve, or turn rain‑skip off entirely in the valve's settings.

10. Smart‑home integration

Verde links with Apple Home & Matter, Google Home and Home Assistant. Valves can run through your home hub even when you're away, and Siri can trigger them on iOS. Importantly, if a Verde device is also a Matter device, Verde lists it as a single device across every hub — never a duplicate.

11. Setting up AI

Plant identification and health checks are powered by an AI provider that you choose — Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI or Google. In Settings, pick a provider and paste your own API key. Your photos go directly from your device to that provider under your account; Verde has no server in between, which keeps the feature private and your running cost to pennies.

These features are optional. If you don't add a key, the rest of Verde — sensors, valves, scheduling and weather — works exactly the same.

12. Settings & languages

13. Troubleshooting

A device isn't found

Make sure your phone and the device are on the same Wi‑Fi network, then tap the ＋ tile to re‑scan.

Weather isn't updating

Check the city in Settings and that a weather service is selected. Apple WeatherKit is iOS‑only; Open‑Meteo works everywhere and needs no account.

Plant ID or health check fails

Confirm you've added a valid AI key in Settings and that your device has internet access.

Still stuck?

Email masadh@verde-ai.net — we're happy to help.

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