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title: "Hi. New here. Any tips with using the light meter on this app? Is it…"
description: "Hi. New here. Any tips with using the light meter on this app? Is it best to measure at the brightest part of the day from where the plant is located or at the…"
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author: "Tiff"
published: "2023-03-05T01:04:32.533Z"
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# Hi. New here. Any tips with using the light meter on this app? Is it…

_Posted by Tiff on 2023-03-05_

Hi. New here. Any tips with using the light meter on this app? Is it best to measure at the brightest part of the day from where the plant is located or at the dimmest? Or somewhere in the middle? Thank you.

## 2 comments

### Emma commented on 2023-03-05

Hi 😃 Warm welcome to our community. Very good question. I would recommend that you measure the light directly from the window and on the brightest part of the day. Then depending on where the plant is from the window, you use the window distance in plant setting to get the correct light per plant. If you have multiple light settings in one room, for example both a window in north direction and south, I would add two sites in one room. I hope I could explain this well enough. Feel free to write again if you have more questions! 🙂🌸

#### iambijoux replied on 2023-03-11

Is there a way to get the light meter to read the strength of grow lights?

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