NIWA Grow Hub Manuale utente

Niwa Grow Hub

User Manual

www.getniwa.com

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Table of contents
Table of contents
Introduction
Hardware overview
Set up instructions
Set up your Niwa Grow Hub device
Download the App and register your user
Connect your Niwa Grow Hub to your Wi-Fi
Alternative Wi-Fi setup (Advanced AP mode)
Wi-Fi tips & Troubleshooting
General issues:
Internet Wi-Fi router related:
Standard mode common issues:
AP advanced mode common issues:
Using the Niwa Grow Hub
Introduction
Top and bottom toolbars
The Dashboard
Grow Components section
Grow Data section
Grow Lifecyle section
The alarms
How do the alarms work?
Temperature and relative humidity alarm
Blown lamp alarm
The notiﬁcations panel
The recipes
The recipe menu
Stages and cycles
Light
Watering
Climate
When setting your climate parameters you have three choices:
Navigating stages in the app
How a recipe is executed
How climate control cycles operate the different devices
Dead zones
The Stats
Settings
Outlet Conﬁguration
2

Sensor’s Offsets & calibration
Calibrate Light Sensor
Change Device’s Network
VPF Leaf Temperature Offset
Account Settings
Support
Managing multiple Niwa Grow Hubs
Adding a new device
Controlling different devices
Niwa Grow Hub LED status
Warnings & Cautions
Main Features
Grow recipes
Recipe stages
Alarms
Live dashboard
Conﬁguration, outlets.
Stats
Connectivity
Over-The-Air updates
Electrical speciﬁcations
What's in the box?
Contact
Warranty Information
Service and Repair Program
Warranty Service
3

Introduction

With the goal of supporting a hassle free and high performance grow, Niwa has developed a

powerful software that enable growers to automate their setups in a very simple way just

by having them plug their existing devices (such as lamps, fans, humidiﬁers, dehumidiﬁers,

A/C, pumps, or heaters) to their Niwa Grow Hub.

This document describes how to set up your Niwa Grow Hub. For further information

about all its features please visit www.getniwa.com.

Warning! The Niwa Grow Hub can handle resistive loads up to 10A MAX per outlet and

15A MAX in total for all four outlets.Make sure you don’t exceed these loads. Some

grow lamps (and other pieces of equipment) have very high inrush currents, so please

take this into consideration or ask the Niwa support team ([email protected]) if you

are not sure or you don’t understand it.

Please go to our Settings/Outlet Conﬁguration section for greater details on

amperage capacity.

Hardware overview

1. Power cord.

2. Setup button.

3. Operation mode LED (Blue).

4. Malfunction LED (Red).

5. Niwa Sensors USB connector port (Do not plug anything else).

6. Conﬁgurable outlet for growing equipment (On & Off control).

7. Niwa Sensors.

8. Niwa Sensors cord.

Set up instructions

Set up your Niwa Grow Hub device

1. Place the Grow Hub Sensors module somewhere inside your grow chamber

protected from water. We recommend placing it where it can get light from the

grow lamp (if available) and sense the temperature and relative humidity of your

plants’ environment.

Please note: Make sure the ventilation grid of your Grow Hub Sensors is not

covered so light and environmental values can be measured properly. Protect the

sensors’ cord from being damaged or cut.

Pro tips:

●Do not place it under your lamps as it will get direct heat from it, interfering with

the readings.

●Since hot air rises, you should ideally place the sensor halfway between your

plants and the top of your grow chamber.

●Do not place it close to your climate control equipment (fans, heaters, A/C,

humidiﬁers, dehumidiﬁers…) but make sure it receives good airﬂow.

2. Place the Niwa Grow Hub, somewhere outside of your grow chamber protected

from water spills or extremely humid conditions.

3. Plug in your selected pieces of equipment (Fan, lamp, humidiﬁer, dehumidiﬁer,

cooler, heater, or watering pump) into the Niwa Grow Hub conﬁgurable outlets and

note to what outlet number you connected each device for later in the app when

you conﬁgure your outlets.

Please note: Only one outlet can be conﬁgured for each device type. For example, if

you have two fans, you can only set one Niwa Grow Hub outlet for fan control.

CAUTION! Make sure the maximum total resistive load does not exceed 10A per

outlet and 15A max in total for all four outlets*

CAUTION! External lamp controllers must be used when operating high powered

grow lamps, those controllers can be triggered by the Niwa Grow Hub.*

Please go to our Settings/Outlet Conﬁguration section for greater details on

amperage capacity.

4. Plug your Niwa Sensor into the Niwa Grow Hub.

CAUTION! Although it uses an USB plug, the Niwa Sensor must be connected to

the Niwa Grow Hub only.*

5. Plug your Niwa Grow Hub to a protected and grounded outlet.

*For the above CAUTIONARY statements, these limitations must be acknowledged. Damages or

malfunctions of the Niwa Grow Hub that are connected to these limitations will void the entire

warranty.

Download the App and register your user

1. Search the keyword “Niwa Grow Hub” in the App Store or Google Play store to

download and install the Niwa app. Make sure you download the Niwa Grow Hub

app,for there is our Niwa One Greenhouse app from our Niwa One product line.You will

ﬁnd links to the Niwa Grow Hub app in the getniwa.com site as well.

Here are the direct links for the Niwa Grow Hub apps:

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.niwa.homegrow.beta

Apple iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/niwa-grow-hub/id1503711468

2. Open the Niwa Grow Hub App and tap on “Don’t have an account? Register”.

3. The app will ask for your email and a password of at least 8 characters.

4. Repeat your password and tap on “Register”.

5. A code will automatically be sent to your email account. Once you have it tap on

“Continue”.

6. Enter the code and tap on “Validate code”

Connect your Niwa Grow Hub to your Wi-Fi

Important: Your Niwa Grow Hub will connect to the same Wi-Fi network that your mobile

phone is connected to. As the majority of IoT devices, the Niwa Grow Hub only works with

2.4GHz b/g/n Wi-Fi networks. Most Internet routers are 2.4GHz or 2.4Ghz compatible.

Nevertheless, some of them may need some settings adjustments in order to enable the

2.4GHz network. Check our troubleshooting section for additional information.

Tip: When connecting your Niwa Grow Hub for the ﬁrst time, we recommend placing

your Niwa Grow Hub in front of your router. Once you're connected, you can place

your Niwa Grow Hub anywhere with a quality WiFi signal.

1. Once you have installed the Niwa Grow Hub app, registered your user and logged

into the app, the device set up will automatically show.

2. Press and hold the “Setup button” in your Niwa Grow Hub for six (6) seconds until

the blue LED starts rapidly ﬂashing (then release it immediately).

3. Tap on “Ready” in the Niwa app, then enter the password of the 2G Wi-Fi network

that your mobile device is connected to, then tap “Conﬁrm”.

4. Please wait until you get the conﬁrmation message, this can take a while. If

something goes wrong please;

●Tap on “Try again”.

●Unplug your Niwa Grow Hub from power.

●Wait for about ten seconds, plug it back and repeat the whole process from

step 2.

5. Once you get your conﬁrmation message you can tap on “Conﬁgure” to set your

Niwa Grow Hub up, assigning the different outlets to your different grow devices,

or “Do it later”.

6. If you get an error message or experience any issue, please check the Wi-Fi Tips &

Troubleshooting section below.

Alternative Wi-Fi setup (Advanced AP mode)

Depending on your own Wi-Fi network conﬁguration, the default Wi-Fi setup may not work

as expected, so there is an alternative advanced AP mode that you can use following the

steps below.

1. Power cycle your Niwa Grow Hub: unplug it from the main outlet, wait 5 seconds,

and plug it back to the main outlet.

2. Once you have logged into the app, the device set up will automatically show.

2. On the bottom of the screen tap on “Connect using AP mode”

3. Press and hold the “Setup button” in your Niwa Grow Hub for twelve (12) seconds

until the blue and the red LED starts rapidly ﬂashing (then release it immediately).

4. Tap on “Ready”.

5. The app will ask you to connect your mobile phone to a Wi-Fi network named

“Niwa****”, then go to your mobile phone settings and:

a. Disable your mobile data connection.

b. Search for the Wi-Fi network named Niwa**** and connect to it.

If your mobile phone displays a warning message saying that “this network does not

have access to the Internet…”, tap on “keep connected anyway” or a similar option.

iPhone Warning while using AP mode.

We have detected in the most recent iOS versions that iPhones will disconnect from the

Niwa’s WiFi (Niwa****) and connect back to the home’s WiFi automatically interrupting

the connectivity process. If this happens, you will see the iPhone WiFi icon on the top

right side of your screen and you won’t be able to enter either your WiFi credentials or

get your BSSID number.

If this happens, you need to power cycle your Niwa (unplug/plug) and restart the Niwa

app and repeat all the steps from the ﬁrst one above. Based on our internal testing, it will

work (the iPhone won’t disconnect) on the second attempt.

Apple said they are working to solve this issue for this is a common bug when a iPhone

connects to an Ad Hoc WiFi network.

6. Once your phone is connected to the Niwa**** network, tap on “Connect” in the

Niwa app, then enter:

a. Your Wi-Fi network name (SSID) where you want to connect your Niwa

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