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It all starts at the Grow Hub. Mine came with the inline fan I purchased, but they can also be purchased individually.
I run mine on a 4 x 8 gorilla grow tent, but they work on any tent. You just use a magnet on the back to mount it to a little metal plate vivosun provide on the inside of the tent.
From this point, grow lights, circulation fans, and duct fans can all be controlled from the Grow Hub. It also has a probe that will go into the tent, so you will now have readings for temperature, humidity and VPD inside of the tent, as well as a sensor on the actual Hub that will provide you with data from outside of the tent.
Next is the AeroStream H19. This is my humidifier.
It has a 19L or just over 5 gallon capacity, and another temperature/humidity probe that comes off of this and goes into the tent, allowing you to set it by temperature/humidity or VPD as well as continuous operation if that is something you’re after.
I keep a 5 gallon bucket of reverse osmosis water next to it and a pump so when I need to refill it, I just plug it in. I have seen others attach a float valve and have it automated, but I don’t have a waterline for my reverse osmosis near me so this was the easiest option.
From there, we move over to the other side of the tent, my AC unit is the Vivosun AeroLush, two hose (really three) unit. This recirculates the air in the tent and cools it extremely quickly, but at the expense of also sucking moisture out of the air.
This also has a temp/ humidity probe that goes into the tent and can keep it set to whatever temp/ humidity you set it to.
Next is the outlets inside the tent, GH-22. These allow me to program my light/irrigation pump/whatever my heart desires and sync it to the grow hub app
I keep my three main probes (grow hub probe, AC probe, and humidifier probe) in a central location in the tent to check that they are all in sync, and have an additional probe at canopy level.
My air pump and stones are also Vivosun, however, they are not any kind of smart accessory. They are just on constantly.
Now all of that pairs to the GrubHub with WiFi, but if you lose Internet, it does still remember how you have it programmed and continue to run in that operation. You can set every parameter however you would like up to four distinct gross cycles, and you can make as many different recipes as you would like. If anyone wants more of an in-depth dive in that I can do that as well.
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To move over to a different product/app I use the Gidigi 8-1 water meter to check PH, TDS, EC and water temp constantly, and can view from my phone.
I do not have a smart dosing system, I just mix via a batch tank so there’s not really anything I can do with those numbers remotely, but it is very efficient for mixing up my nutrients rather than needing multiple separate meters
And that’s basically it.
Everything can be adjusted from my phone and monitored at any point time.
The ability to program different recipes and have it follow any automation that I desire is awesome, and I’ve been able to tweak it consistently to get it right where I want it.
The app also provides you with logs for all of your data, you can see your data by the minute, you in an hour view, day, week, or month by month even.
To touch on what you said, I like that this gives me the ability to just set it and forget it, I know that as long as all of the equipment runs, the parameters are going to be locked in, and I don’t think about it twice anymore
