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CannaLib desk
Browse strains, mediums, nutrients and lights; the three strain tiers and how to read provenance.
● verified for 9.0.0 · firmware train 8.2.0.0
● last verified 2026-09-17 · mirrored 2026-09-15
CannaLib is the strain catalog behind Compose, the Want bands and the stage model. Lights on this desk are read from DSC-KitLib, and mediums and nutrients from DSC-NuteLib: the kit's local product libraries (Settings › Integrations › Libraries).
What is in it
- Strains: format (photoperiod or auto), flowering time, climate and root targets per stage, media and feed hints, and upstream images only when the source has them.
- Lights (DSC-KitLib): fixtures with nameplate watts, spectrum, maker PPFD maps and recommended hang heights. A map the library has not transcribed yet says so instead of drawing one.
- Mediums and Nutrients (DSC-NuteLib): media by composition; nutrients by brand, category, dose and stage, with a chemistry tier tag.
- Equipment (DSC-KitLib) and feed charts (DSC-NuteLib) have no tab here. Equipment appears where a device is bound to a product, with the maker's ratings (Settings › Light › Devices); feed charts appear in the Mix panel on Root.
Three tiers, one shape
| Tier | Where | When used |
|---|---|---|
| Online API | The CannaLib server (Settings › Integrations › CannaLib API URL) | First choice when reachable |
| On-Pi corpus | A read-only copy on the Pi (the thin sidecar) | When the API is down and Local catalog fallback is on |
| Curated YAML | The kit's own small catalog | Always present; never blocks |
The tiers are for strains. Library records are always local and carry the source kitlib or nutelib. Every strain and fixture record carries a source tag. The brain refreshes roster strains and bound fixtures on boot, every 6 hours and on roster or fixture edits, and keeps the last-known values through an outage.
Using the desk
- Pick a tab (Strains, Mediums, Nutrients, Lights) and search by name. Strains filter by Type, Format and Seed bank / breeder.
- Pick an item for its details; fields without data stay blank. A strain shows type, breeder, temperature and RH, height, flowering, THC and lineage, with images only when the source has a licensed one. Use in Compose starts a plant from it; Add compare sets up to three side by side.
- Runs in DSC-HUB under a strain lists its plants on the roster (zone, sprouted, days, stage, VPD in band over the last 24 h) and its harvested runs from their run reports: date, dry grams, g/m², flip → harvest days, grade and g/W.
Provenance report
Settings › Integrations › CannaLib in the grow shows, per plant and per fixture, which tier supplied the record, when, and a Refresh button.
DSC-Brain user guide · CannaLib desk · this page is edited on the site; the Notion original was retired after the mirror