What the Hub is

CarinaOS Hub is a cultivation operations dashboard that sits on top of your METRC compliance data and your environmental sensors. It gives you one place to watch your rooms, run compliance actions, plan cycles, and keep your required logs — all scoped to your own facility.

Where CarinaOS Go is the field app for METRC actions from the floor, the Hub is the full picture at the desk:

• Live METRC data — plants, batches, harvests, packages, tags, and transfers.
• Live sensor data — temperature, humidity, VPD, CO₂, light/DLI, substrate moisture, tanks, water flow, and pump health.
• Compliance tooling — run METRC actions, keep digital log sheets, and prep for inspections.
• Planning — cycle planner, task boards, and reusable playbook templates.

Before you start

Have these handy and setup takes about 20 minutes:

• Your CarinaOS sign-in (email + password).
• Your METRC API key — in METRC, click your name (top right) → API Keys → User Key.
• Your license number.
• Your sensor credentials, if you use them: Growlink (username, password, API subscriber key) and/or YoLink (UAID and secret).

Your first day with CarinaOS

From a fresh sign-in to a fully connected setup, in order.

Setup (about 20 minutes)

Take the tour (5 minutes)

Dashboard — your overview: plant counts, next harvest, active/finished harvests, and the Cycle Board timeline. Environment — each room's live conditions (green good, amber watch, red out of range). Water — tank levels and pump health. METRC tab — your compliance action center; note the Refresh button (data is cached ~10 minutes) and the 🧪 Dry Run button on every action.

Do these first

• Set your cycle length — Settings → cycle configuration (default 63 days).
• Map your room names — make your METRC location names match what you call your rooms.
• Add your staff — Tasks → Staff, so you can assign work.
• Load a playbook — Tasks → Templates → pick a sample (like an IPM calendar), tweak it, apply it to a room.
• Do a test dry-run — open any METRC action, fill it in, hit 🧪 Dry Run, and get comfortable before running anything live.

Your daily rhythm

Morning: Dashboard (health check) → Environment (scan every room for red/amber) → Water (tank levels and flow). During the day: record the shift in the Daily Log, log IPM applications, and run compliance from the METRC tab — always Refresh → Dry Run → run live. As cycles progress: move plants Clone → Veg → Flower, package harvests, and Finish packages when empty.

Roles & access

What each person can do is set by their role:

Every account only ever sees its own facility's data — accounts are fully isolated from one another. If you can see data but can't change anything, you're a Viewer; ask your owner or admin to upgrade your role.

Connect METRC

This is the most important connection — it powers your plant counts, harvests, and packages.

1. During onboarding (or later in Settings), paste your METRC API key, or scan the QR code on METRC's API Keys page.
2. Tap Find my facility — CarinaOS pulls your licensed facility and fills in your license number automatically.
3. Continue. Your Dashboard, Veg, Flower, Clones, and Analytics tabs come alive with your real inventory.

Connect your sensors

Optional, but it's what lights up the Environment and Water tabs with live data.

1. In onboarding or Settings → Sensor configuration, turn on Growlink and/or YoLink and enter your credentials.
2. Tap Discover — CarinaOS scans and lists the sensors it finds.
3. Assign each sensor to a room (e.g. Flower Zone 1, Veg, Feed tank, Flow meter).

Rooms & cycle setup

Add each room and its role — Flower, Veg, Clone, Dry, Mother. Then set the basics that drive your schedules and projections:

• Cycle length — Settings → cycle configuration (default 63 days), plus cycles/year and baseline oz/plant.
• Room / location names — map your METRC location names to what you call your rooms, so actions land in the right place.

Dashboard & Cycle Board

Your at-a-glance overview: stat tiles for flowering and veg plants, active flower cycles, next harvest date, and active/finished harvests with weights, alongside charts for canopy composition, active harvests, and strain breakdown.

The Cycle Board lays every room out on a shared ~63-day arc, color-coded by task type, with a progress marker at today and a click-to-expand week grid:

Environment

Live readings from every configured room — per-zone cards for temperature, humidity (RH), VPD, CO₂, and light, plus substrate temperature, moisture, and EC where those sensors exist. Everything is color-coded so you can spot problems fast:

For example, RH over 65% flags botrytis risk and CO₂ under 400 ppm flags low. DLI History charts your daily light integral against a 40–55 mol/m²/day target band, viewable over 30/60 days, all-time, or per flower cycle. A Refresh button and "last synced" timestamp sit on the tab.

Water & irrigation

Everything about your water supply and delivery in one tab:

• Tank levels — visual tanks with fill %, depth, trend, and low-level alerts.
• Solution tank pH & EC gauges.
• Well-pump fill rate & health — spot pump wear before it fails.
• Water delivered per shot (flow meter), with a baseline and clog detection that flags emitters running ≥25% below baseline.
• Supply depletion forecast, water-use breakdown (flower vs veg vs other), irrigation uniformity, and EC drift.

Clones, Veg & Flower

Three live-from-METRC tabs follow plants through the grow.

Clones

Clone counts by strain, clone success rate and trend, and a full clone table. Click a strain to move a clone package forward.

Veg

Total veg plants, strains, active batches, and days-in-veg per batch, with Refresh and Destroy actions. This view can lag METRC by a few minutes — refresh before acting.

Flower

Flowering plant counts, strains, a harvest-ready count (day 50+), and estimated yield. A harvest timeline (red = harvest now, amber = approaching, green = in progress) and a canopy-by-strain chart sit alongside the Harvest Tracker (plants harvested, remaining, current wet weight, packaged weight). Click a strain or row to open the harvest prep workflow.

METRC — compliance action center

This is where you run compliance actions. Every action has a 🧪 Dry Run that validates the request without touching METRC, and a banner reminds you to Refresh first, because METRC data is cached ~10 minutes.

Available actions:

• Create clone package — package immature clones and assign a tag.
• Clone → Veg — move a clone package into veg as new plantings.
• Veg → Flower — flip a veg batch to flowering and assign plant tags (large flips are split automatically into METRC-sized chunks).
• Harvest → Package — move dried weight from a harvest into a new tagged package.
• Finish / Unfinish Package — close out an empty package, or reopen it.
• Adjust Package — change a package quantity with a reason and note.
• Log Waste / Destroy — destroy plants (by tag) or immature batches (by weight) with reason, method, and witness note.
• Move Batches / Move Plants — relocate plants or batches between rooms.
• Log Additive — record a nutrient or IPM application to plants or a whole room.
• Tag Inventory — see available plant and package tags with a burn-down trend and low-tag warnings.

Harvests & packaging

Handle a harvest end to end from the Flower tab or the Harvest action:

1. Prepare the harvest and record your wet weight in the Harvest, Dry & Cure Log.
2. Once dried, use Harvest → Package to move weight into tagged packages.
3. Finish Harvest when everything is packaged.

Tag scanner & inventory

The Tag Scanner looks up any METRC tag and returns strain, growth phase, location, quantity, and more — camera scanning on mobile, type-to-search on desktop. Tag Inventory shows your available plant and package tags with a burn-down trend and low-tag warnings.

Cycle Planner

Pick a room and flip date, then tap Generate Schedule to produce a full cultivation, IPM, and harvest calendar. The Active Cycles table shows every cycle's plant count, flip date, projected harvest, current day, and stage.

Tasks & playbooks

• Board — tasks per cycle, filtered by today / overdue / completed, assignable to staff.
• Staff — manage your team roster.
• Templates — load a sample playbook (e.g. an IPM calendar), edit it, save your own, and materialize it onto a room using the flip date as day 0.
• Rooms & Tables — subdivide rooms into tables (T1…Tn).

Analytics

The reporting view across your operation: active and completed harvest batches (weights, oz/plant, projected dry), cannabis inventory by strain and category, and transfers out (manifest, recipient, weights) with date filters. It also covers pipeline overview, batch shrinkage, flower-phase distribution, a projected harvest calendar, and strain performance.

Digital log sheets

Six cloud-backed log sheets, visible across every device signed into your facility:

1. Daily Log — shift, room, environment, feed EC/pH, irrigations, observations.
2. IPM Log — product, rate, spray window, result.
3. METRC Log — a record of compliance changes.
4. Harvest, Dry & Cure Log — pre-harvest checklist and wet / dry / cure weights.
5. Sanitation / Turnover Log — room turnover phases.
6. Clone / Propagation Log — mother health and rooting progress.

Everything saves to the cloud, so any device on your facility sees the same records.

DCC checklist & audit

Get inspection-ready without scrambling. Work through the DCC Checklist — tap items to check them off, watch the progress bar — then save an inspection record with the inspector, type, findings, and outcome. The Internal Audit tracks pass / fail / N-A items with a score, and findings save to the cloud.

TV Wallboard

A full-screen operations display built for a TV or monitor on your grow-room wall. It auto-rotates through six live pages so the whole crew can see the state of the facility at a glance — no login, no clicking.

The six pages

Cycles & Assignments

This page turns the wall screen into the crew's daily worklist. Along the top, a card per active cycle shows its day in flower (e.g. Day 38/63), days to harvest, and the next scheduled task. Below that, today's tasks are listed with the assigned staff member beside each one, followed by Tomorrow and a This week roll-up with a done count.

Because tasks and staff come from your Tasks & playbooks setup and cycles come from the Cycle Planner, the board stays current on its own — assign work at the desk and it appears on the wall.

Running it

• Open the wallboard on any browser-connected screen and put it in fullscreen.
• Pages rotate automatically; page dots show where you are in the loop.
• Use pause / resume to hold on a page — handy during a crew huddle.
• The footer shows your facility, a live METRC indicator, and the current time.

Settings & alerts

Settings

• Facility — name, license number, state.
• Cycle configuration — flower cycle length, cycles/year, baseline oz/plant, default flip date, cycle stage events.
• Room / location names — map METRC locations to your dashboard names.
• Sensor configuration — discover, assign, and manage your Growlink / YoLink sensors.
• METRC environment — Production vs Sandbox and webhook registration (owner-level).
• Account — delete facility (owner only).

Alerts

The hub surfaces conditions inline where they matter: harvest aging (a harvest sitting unpackaged too long), low tags, environmental (out-of-range temp / RH / CO₂ / VPD or substrate too wet/dry), and water (tank low, pump degradation, clogged emitter).

Frequently asked questions

Glossary

Cultivation lifecycle

Environment & sensors

Irrigation & water

METRC & compliance

CarinaOS terms

Get help

Stuck? Contact CarinaOS support with your facility name and a description of what you were doing when the issue happened — and any error text METRC returned. That's usually enough to sort it fast.