Cognitum Seed Questions

[SufficentMuffin]

Why is there a cloud "seed" needed? What does this do?

Why is it needed if everything runs locally?

Thanks in advance!

[ruvnet]

The "seed" refers to the optional Cognitum Seed URL (seed_url / seed_token) used by the swarm_bridge feature in the ESP32 firmware. It's the address of a coordination endpoint that lets multiple ESP32 nodes discover and register with each other for multi-node swarm operation.

It is not required for single-node or local-only use. If you're running one ESP32 with the sensing server on the same LAN, you can leave seed_url empty and everything runs entirely locally.

The seed becomes relevant only when you want nodes to auto-discover a coordinator across subnets or without knowing its IP in advance. Issue #574 tracks an mDNS enhancement that would eliminate the need to set seed_url manually even in multi-node local deployments.

For provisioning details see the provision.py script and the ESP32 setup tutorial in #34.

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[SufficentMuffin]

So why says it then in the Readme "paired with a Cognitum Seed for persistent memory" this sounds to me to get the full potential you have to use this Seed which seems not to be fully local.

Is there any other way to get "persistent memory" for example by connecting it to HomeAssistant or smth?

Thanks