DSC-BRAIN USER GUIDE · USING THE DASHBOARD
Issues
Active alerts by severity, acknowledge and snooze presets, away mode, the rules panel, reminders, and the 24 h history filter. Formerly the Alerts desk. The Issues screen is the top bar item; the older desk is still there.
● verified for 9.0.0 · corrected for 9.8.9 on 2026-10-01
● first mirrored 2026-09-15
On this page
The hub acts before it calls you. Most conditions are handled by the ladder, the failsafe or a rule first; an alert is the kit telling you it could not, or that you need to know.
The Issues screen (#/v2/issues) lists every active issue in four tiers: Safety, Needs attention soon, Affects the grow and Housekeeping, under a heading that reads Issues and the count. Each issue says what was seen, why it matters, what to do and the possible causes; a cause the brain has not worked out says so. You can acknowledge an issue, which hides it until the hub next boots and leaves the condition untouched, or snooze it for a length its tier allows. A safety issue is silenced rather than snoozed, and a pinned alarm cannot be snoozed. The screen reads the result back from the brain. If the list is stale or unavailable it says so, and a short or empty list is then not an all-clear. The rest of this page describes the older Alerts desk. Use that desk to see what needs you now, acknowledge or snooze it, and check what the hub did about it. For what each alert means and the first thing to check, see the Alert catalogue.
Header
The desk header tags say who drives the appliances (BRAIN DRIVING, BRAIN IDLE or YOU DRIVE, or WHO DRIVES when the hub cannot be read), with APPLIANCES: CHECK, FANS: YOURS or FANS: CHECK when they apply, so you know why the room is behaving as it is. The headline badge follows the highest active severity.
Active now
Each alert card shows the zone (with a WARN or INFO tag when the alert is not critical), the alert's name, what the hub did about it in the last 6 hours (No automatic action recorded in the last 6 h otherwise), the fix, how long this screen has seen it (the hub does not stamp alert start times), a button to the desk that can fix it, and the acknowledge control. Nothing active. The hub has nothing to say. is the empty state. Alerts switched off under Settings › Alerts are counted in a footnote, not shown.
Smoke, gas and CO. A smoke, gas or carbon monoxide alarm bound to a hazard role in Settings › Devices raises Smoke detected, Gas detected or Carbon monoxide as critical the moment it reports, with no hold; the card's button is Open safety alarms. Safety alarm silent (warn) means a bound alarm has not reported for over a day. These alerts switch nothing. The opt-in Safety cut-off task (Settings › Devices › Zigbee) is what switches the heater, heat mat and lamp plugs off when an alarm trips; by default they stay off until you release the cut-off there.
Acknowledge and snooze
Acknowledge hides a card for the duration shown beside it; pick another from its menu first if you want. The presets are 1 h, 4 h, 12 h and until hub boot (the one-click default). Choose which durations are offered (15 min to 1 day, or until hub boot) and which one a single click uses under Settings › Alerts › Delivery › Acknowledge presets. An acknowledged card says how long is left and offers un-acknowledge. Acknowledgements are stored on the brain and keyed by hub boot, so they survive a page reload and clear on a real hub reboot. The failsafe alert cannot be switched off in Settings › Alerts (it reads always on), and quiet hours never silence it. snooze 24 h on a reminder card hides it for a day; the cadence is untouched and it does not count as done.
Away mode
Settings › Alerts › Away mode delivers critical alerts only while you are away. Warn and info are still recorded and shown here.
Rules · what the hub does before it calls you
A panel listing each automation rule with its condition, scope, hub action and live state (ARMED, PENDING inside the debounce, FIRING, RELEASING or WRITE FAILED), with an On switch. Fired counts are not recorded yet. Edit rules in Settings opens Settings › Automation; Open Climate command goes to Climate.
Reminders
Due journal reminders appear as REMINDER cards and count in ACTIVE NOW. See the Logs desk page.
Procedures sits beside Active now: open SOP checklists with their steps, a LOG IT button and stop, plus starters for the zone procedures and the reminder buttons (Weekly IPM scout every 7 d, Source water check every 30 d) for the 4×8 or 2×4. See Procedures — SOP checklists.
History
The last 24 hours of the grow log, up to 40 lines, each tagged ALERT (a notable the hub flagged), HUB (something it switched) or NOTE. The filter chips are Everything, Hide HUB switching and Alerts only; this browser remembers the choice. Nothing matches this filter in the last 24 h. is a valid state. The full review is on the Logs desk.
Delivery on this browser
Toast and tone on a new alert are per browser (Settings › Alerts › Delivery). Quiet hours silence the tone. Push to a phone is built and off by default; it is not set up on the reference rig.
DSC-Brain user guide · Issues and the Alerts desk · this page is edited on the site; the Notion original was retired after the mirror