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Choose the Best Lighting For You and Your Plants

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Leave your Lights to Kelby, with Kelby Assist!

Take the guesswork out of choosing the best lighting for your plants by enabling Kelby Assist, in the app! Tap the 3-line menu in the top-left of your app's home screen, select "Device Controls", and tap the toggle next to Kelby Assist to On (green). Then, let Kelby take it from there! (You can still choose the times of day your lights turn on and off with Kelby Assist enabled.)

All Gardyns come with default light and water schedules that will still nurture your plants, though not necessarily according to their development stage, like Kelby Assist would. Regardless of whether you're using the default schedules or Kelby Assist, you can still adjust the times of day your lights are on to match your household rhythms.

Before making any adjustments, remember:

  • The Gardyn is bright at first, but the light softens considerably once the plants are fully grown! Most Gardyners find they grow accustomed to the lights as well.
  • Kelby recommends a total of 14 to 16 hours in Boost mode daily for the healthiest growth. 
  • Boost mode is the maximum light intensity. Boost allows you to easily toggle between 100% lighting intensity and a dimmer setting of your choice.
  • The smiley face in the bottom left corner of your app's Light Schedule screen is Kelby's signal that your plants are getting enough light.

Turning Lights On or Off

To turn your lights on or off until their next scheduled setting, simply short-press the silver button on your Gardyn's lid, or tap the Light Tile on your app's home screen.

If you use this method to turn your lights on, please note that the lights will come back on in a dimmed setting, even if that does not match your current scheduled brightness (such as Boost mode) for that moment in time. Simply adjust the brightness as needed, or turn Boost mode on, in your app for the remainder of the current time block.

Adjusting Your Light Schedule

To adjust the times of day your lights are on and off:

  1. Tap the 3-line menu in the upper left of your app's home screen, then select Device Controls.
  2. Tap the green "Edit" button next to Light Schedule.
  3. Tap the calendar icon:

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4. ​Edit the time slots for when your lights are on by tapping an existing time slot, or add a new one by tapping the green plus symbol (+) on the bottom right of the screen.

    • Note, you will not see a time slot for the remaining hours when your lights are off.
    • Don't forget to press Save in the upper right corner of the screen when you're done editing!
    • You can also delete time slots from this screen by tapping the trash can symbol.

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5. If you'd like to copy a specific day's schedule, tap the Copy button at the bottom left of the Light Schedule screen. You can then choose which days you want to copy your schedule to.

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Adjusting the Lights' Brightness

  1. Tap the 3-line menu in the upper left of your app's home screen, then select Device Controls.
  2. Tap the green "Edit" button next to Light Schedule.
  3. If Boost mode is on, toggle it off. Then, slide the button around the yellow ON circle in the center of the screen until you reach your desired intensity.
  4. Next, tap the calendar icon in the upper right of the screen. For each time slot where you previously had boost mode off, you will now see the brightness level you just selected.

 

Questions? Reach us at support@mygardyn.com, or chat with us! We're here to help.

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