Be the manager, not the babysitter
Fine at the 4pm check, ruined by morning. LoopString watches every room and texts you the moment one drifts out of spec.
Why the morning walk-through finds the damage
You can't walk every room all day
Reading gauges room by room eats the morning and still misses the spike that hit while you were in another room. LoopString puts every room on one screen.
The damage happens between checks
A check at 8, noon, and 4 gives you three data points a day. A dehumidifier that quits at 11pm won't show up until the morning walk-through — after the room has been out of range for hours.
The 3am failure with no alert
HVAC trips or CO₂ climbs in the middle of the night and nothing tells you. On-Pi alerting fires the instant a reading crosses your limit, on the channel you choose.
No record to explain a bad batch
Without the log, “why did that run underperform?” is a guess. LoopString keeps the history so you can line conditions up against the harvest and stop repeating the same drift.
How LoopString Solves It
Every room on one dashboard
Temperature, humidity, and CO₂ from every room in one view, with live sparklines so drift shows up at a glance instead of on the next walk-through.
Control that runs on-site
The Pi holds your setpoints and switches the relays itself, so the room keeps running to target even when the internet is down.
Out of spec, straight to your phone
SMS and in-app alerts the moment temperature, humidity, or CO₂ leaves the band. Set the windows wide enough to skip the noise and still catch the real ones.
Runs on your schedule, not a wall clock
Time-based rules drive FAE fans, misters, and lights on your grow schedule, and switch day/night targets on their own clock.
Hardware You'll Use
SHT31
High-accuracy temperature & humidity sensor
I²CMH-Z19
CO₂ sensor for the grow room
UARTSoil moisture sensor
Capacitive probes for substrate moisture
Analog / ADCDS18B20
Waterproof temperature probe for substrate and air
1-Wire
Free tools for this work
Frequently asked questions
- Can LoopString run a full indoor grow room — climate, VPD, and CO₂?
- Yes. It controls humidifier, dehumidifier, fan, heater, and CO₂ relays from the Pi against temperature, humidity, VPD, and CO₂ targets, with day/night schedules. CO₂ dosing runs behind edge safety interlocks.
- Can I set different targets for veg and flower?
- Yes. Schedules and recipes switch your VPD, temperature, and humidity targets by stage and by photoperiod, all executing on-device.
- What hardware do I need to start?
- A Raspberry Pi plus the sensors and relays for what you want to control — the Parts Library lists supported temperature/humidity, CO₂, and relay hardware, and the Configurator wires them into a flow for you.
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