Supercycler Manual
What every screen, every card and every setting in the app does, with a screenshot of the real screen next to it. It's ordered by when you're going to need it: it starts with what you touch on day one and ends with what you only need on your third grow.
Where to start3 steps
- Assign the light and set its scheduleIt comes first because everything else hangs off it: the grow day, synchronized watering and the night thresholds all come from knowing when it turns on and when it turns off.The light and its schedule →
- Connect an ambient sensor and mark it as primaryThat sensor is where the temperature, humidity and VPD you see on the dashboard come from, and what the alerts fire against. Without it, the app is showing you the tent blind.Environment and VPD →
- Set up the alerts before you go to sleepThey're the only thing working when you're not looking. With two thresholds set well you find out about a problem at 3 in the morning instead of at 9.Alerts →
Getting started
01First runCreating the account, logging in, and deciding where to start. The app doesn't force you to have hardware on day one: you can walk through all of it i02Connecting your first deviceThe setup wizard is the only door for adding hardware, and it opens again every time you buy something new, from ☰ → Add device. Each brand comes in i03Anatomy of the dashboardThe dashboard is a single screen that builds itself out of what you have connected. There are no nested menus: every device you add shows up as a card04Zones: one per physical environmentA zone is an environment with its own light schedule, its own sensors and its own plugs. It's the unit of everything: alerts, the journal, spending an05The menu: everything that's inside itThe floating little brain opens the menu, and that's where everything that doesn't live on the dashboard is. It's worth going through it once: there a
Day to day
06The light and its scheduleIt's the most important card on the dashboard and the first one you'll set up. It shows whether the light is on, how long until the next change, and —07Supercycles: cycles that don't add up to 24 hIt's the idea the product is named after. An ordinary timer forces ON + OFF to add up to 24 hours. Not here: you can run 13/13, 13/11 or any combinati08Environment: temperature, humidity and VPDThe ENVIRONMENT card is the tent's thermometer. It shows what the main sensor reports, the trend over the last few hours, and the climate equipment th09Today's tasks and the grow journalThe journal is the grow's memory: what you did, when and with what. The tasks card on the dashboard is its short face — the three or four things that 10Protocols: the plan the app follows for youA protocol is the grow's recipe: which tasks come up each week, with which environment targets per stage. With no protocol chosen, the tasks card show11Alerts: only get told when it mattersA grow is lost at night and in silence. Alerts are the only thing working when you're not watching — and the only thing that ruins itself if you set i12Environment equipment: exhaust fan, fan, humidifierEverything that isn't the light or the pump goes here. Each device carries a role (what it is) and a mode (how it decides to turn on). With those two 13Irrigation: the five modesOf everything the app does, irrigation is the biggest, and the only one where a mistake is paid for within hours. You configure it behind the card's ⚙14Why irrigation won't flood your roomIt's the most carefully built part of the system, because it's the only one that can ruin a grow in twenty minutes. It's worth understanding what it's
Watch and document
15Eyes: the grow's cameraEyes turns an old Android into the tent's camera. It's not just watching: it counts the plants, draws their outline, measures how much space they take16Brain: asking someone who has seen your sensorsBrain is the app's chat, and what makes it different from any other one is that it comes into the conversation with a snapshot of the real state o17Plant Scan and sticky trapsTake a photo and ask what's wrong with the plant. It's the quick diagnosis tool, and the only one in the app that works well without a single device c18Fertilization plan and IPM catalogTwo journal tabs that work together: in FERT you set how you water and with what, and IPM is the pest prevention strategy. Both generate tasks that th19Grower Arena: the rankingA ranking among growers that measures how tidily you run your grow, not how much you harvest. You join if you want and you leave whenever you want. Th
Deep setup
20My Lab: the zone's complete recordEverything the dashboard doesn't show because it doesn't change every day: the tent's dimensions, the substrate, the genetics, the fixtures, the physi21Sharing the zone and working as a teamIf someone else walks into your room, it's worth having them in the app. Sharing a zone gives you a collaborator who sees the environment, reports tas22Power CostHow much power the grow uses and what it costs you in your currency. You open it from ☰ → My Lab → Power Cost, but the screen is global: it shows you 23AI VPD: when Brain watches humidityThe AI VPD card isn't just a number: it watches how your room behaves and tells you what to adjust. It appears as soon as the zone has a sensor that m24Closing the grow and the historyWhen you harvest, you close the cycle and you are left with a record that stays forever: the whole cycle's climate frozen, the yield, the genetics and
Advanced
25The 22 widgets and why you're missing oneThe dashboard has no "enable widgets" screen: each card appears on its own when the zone meets its condition. If a widget isn't there, it's because th26Secondary, dimmable, and UV lightsA zone can have more than one light, each with its own regime. The main one defines the photoperiod; the rest hang off it or run on their own.27Crop steeringThe pro irrigation mode. Instead of "water when it drops below X", it splits the day into phases and uses dryback — how much the substrate dries down 28Research toolsWhat you don't need in order to grow, but what makes the second grow better than the first: comparing against the real climate of an origin, looking a29Ghost Zone: hiding a zoneA zone in ghost mode stops showing up: it's not in the zone selector, or the editor, or the phone widget, or the Stream Deck. It comes back when you t30Themes, monitor, language and accessThe app lets itself be rearranged quite a bit. None of this changes how the system grows, but it changes quite a lot about how you live with it.31Support: when you have to write to a humanBrain answers now and that's where it ends. A ticket stays alive, with a state, until someone works on it. You open it from ☰ → Support.32GlossaryThe terms that show up in the app and don't always mean what they look like.33Your own board: DIY with an ESP32If you build your own hardware, your brand does not have to be on the list in Connecting your first device. The app gives you a username, a password a
This manual explains the app. Brain, inside it, answers about your tent: why your VPD spiked last night, whether that dryback is normal, what to change today.