Mushrooms, grown
on autopilot

I’m building SokoOS for home growers: a sensor box and an app that switch your tent’s humidifier, heater and fans to hold each mushroom’s recipe.

A grow fails in the hours you aren’t looking. SokoOS checks your tent every 15 seconds and switches the appliances to put it right.

A check every 15 seconds

This is the dashboard I’m building, holding a Blue Oyster tent on day 3 of fruiting. Tap an appliance to take it over.

SokoOSTent 1Last reading 13:45

Blue Oyster

Fruiting · day 3 of 7

Reading	Now	Target
Temperature	20.6 °C	21.0 °C
Humidity	86 %	85 %
CO2	940 ppm	900 max

CO2, last two hours

Passed the 900 ppm limit at 13:30, so both fans came on.

Appliances

Tap an appliance to switch it: Auto, then On, then Off.

Read
Sensors in the tent measure temperature, humidity and CO2.
Compare
Autopilot holds each reading against your strain’s recipe for the day it’s on.
Switch
It turns appliances on or off to close the gap. You can override any of them.

Inside the app

The dashboard is free and stays free. Autopilot is free while it’s in beta, and I’ll tell the waitlist before that changes.

Live readings

Tent 1Online

Temperature20.6°CTarget 21 °C
Humidity86%Target 85 %
CO2940ppmMax 900

Last reading 13:45:15

Fresh temperature, humidity and CO2 readings every 15 seconds
Each one beside today’s target
Open it on your phone or laptop; both update together
A light tells you the controller is online

History and log

Temperature, since 8:00

Today 13:30Fans on: CO2 passed 900 ppm
Wed 08:12Autopilot moved Blue Oyster to fruiting
Tue 03:10Alarm: humidity fell to 68 %

Readings saved and charted, so you can see what the tent did overnight
A log of alarms and autopilot moves
A heater stuck on shows up as a climbing line

Alarms

Temperature15.0 – 28.5 °C
Humidity70 – 95 %
CO2400 – 1,800 ppm

Every reading is inside its limits. Alerts go by Email and SMS.

Set a low and high limit for each reading
Get an email, SMS or WhatsApp message when the tent goes outside them
Turn each channel on or off
Alarms go into the log too

Switches

Appliances

Humidifier
Heater
Intake fan
Exhaust fan

Autopilot is running Blue Oyster. Pick On or Off to take over an appliance.

Auto, On or Off for each of the four appliances
Flip them from your phone, wherever you are
Autopilot asks before you override it
Back to Auto in one tap

Autopilot

Blue OysterDay 21 of 25

Pick a strain and press start
It moves to the next stage when the recipe’s days are up
It holds that stage’s targets
Counts the days and shows what’s next
Skip a stage or stop it from the same screen

Your own recipes

New recipe

Set days, temperature, humidity and CO2 for each stage
Saved beside Blue Oyster and Lion’s Mane
Autopilot runs it the same way as the built-in ones
Try one in the strain picker below

Oyster mushrooms in overlapping shelves, their gills drawn in fine lines. Hand-coloured engraving by James Sowerby, 1803.

Pick a mushroom

Harvest in about 25 days

Grows fast and forgives mistakes. A good first grow.

Blue Oyster recipe, by stage
Stage	Days	Temp	Humidity	CO2
Incubation	14	24 °C	90 %	2,000 ppm
Pinning	4	18 °C	95 %	800 ppm
Fruiting	7	21 °C	85 %	900 ppm

Blue Oyster: incubation 14 days at 24 °C, 90 %, 2,000 ppm; pinning 4 days at 18 °C, 95 %, 800 ppm; fruiting 7 days at 21 °C, 85 %, 900 ppm. Lion’s Mane: incubation 19 days at 23 °C, 92 %, 1,800 ppm; pinning 5 days at 20 °C, 95 %, 750 ppm; fruiting 10 days at 18 °C, 90 %, 800 ppm.

Before you sign up

The kitWhat’s in the box?

A controller with temperature, humidity and CO2 sensors, a four-channel relay (one channel per appliance), and the app. You connect the humidifier, heater and fans you already own.

StrainsWhich mushrooms can I grow?

Blue Oyster and Lion’s Mane come with recipes. For anything else, you write the recipe: days, temperature, humidity and CO2 for each stage.

ControlCan I take over by hand?

Yes. Set any appliance to On or Off from the dashboard. Autopilot asks you to confirm first, and Auto hands control back.

AlertsWill I know if something goes wrong?

You get an email, SMS or WhatsApp message when a reading leaves the range you set. That gives you time to refill the humidifier or fix the heater before the grow suffers.

PriceHow much is it, and when does it ship?

I don’t know yet. SokoOS is a working prototype, and I’ll email the price and ship date to the waitlist first. Your answer to the price question after you sign up helps me set it.

SubscriptionIs there a subscription?

Not for the basics. The dashboard and switching appliances from your phone stay free. Autopilot is free during the beta, and I’ll tell the waitlist before that changes.

Ask meSomething I didn’t answer?

Three hedgehog fungi on one plate: two small cup-shaped species above, and a large shaggy lion’s mane below. Colour plate by Léon Dufour, 1891. — Hedgehog fungi, with lion’s mane below. Léon Dufour, 1891.

A large oyster mushroom cap, brown and grey with pale gills, painted for Flora Batava, 1849.

First kits go to this list

I’ll email you when kits are ready and ask what you’d pay. No newsletter.

The dashboard stays free.

Pl. I.

სოკო soko

Georgian

სოკო is the Georgian word for mushroom. SokoOS is based in Georgia, and the kits are made here.