Shady Knoll Labs — the small hobby lab behind GnodeHub.
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A Gnode is a little sensor that sits in a houseplant's pot and keeps an eye on the things that actually affect how it's doing: light, soil moisture, temperature, and humidity. This dashboard turns those readings into a plain "how's it doing" status instead of a spreadsheet of numbers, and tries to be honest about what a consumer-grade sensor can and can't actually tell you.
GnodeHub is still a small, pre-launch hobby project — there's no self-serve way to buy a Gnode of your own yet. What you're looking at is real, though: real sensors, real plants, and a handful of real people (including the person building it) actually using it day to day. Here's the rough shape of what's built and what's next.
Every sensor authenticates itself, claiming a device proves you actually have it in hand, and each device gets its own calibrated soil reading instead of one guess-for-everyone number.
Sign in with GitHub, Google, or a plain username and password -- whichever's easiest for you.
Picking your plant's species, honest copy about what these sensors can and can't promise, and a smoother path from box to dashboard for the handful of real Gnodes out in the wild today.
Every plant already gets its own live page anyone can view -- next up is finding out whether people actually want to explore and share them.
Follow other plant owners, browse public plants, and build out the social side of the dashboard -- once we know people want it.
A proper circuit board (in design now) and an actual way to get a Gnode of your own, instead of hand-built prototypes.
There's no way to buy a finished Gnode yet. What's running today is real hardware, hand-built, worn in by a handful of real people -- not a shipped product.
Build or buy the hardware once, run the dashboard yourself on your own network. No subscription, no recurring cost, your data stays yours.
A ready-to-use Gnode for anyone who'd rather not build one from the open-source design. Coming once the PCB is proven out.
A convenience option for people who don't want to run their own server -- still being weighed, not decided, priced, or scheduled yet.
The live dashboard has a handful of real plants reporting in right now — Staff Picks is a good place to start. If you end up with your own account, GitHub, Google, and plain username/password sign-in all work.