AutoMyco

AutoMyco for Android

Run your chamber from an Android phone, over your own Wi-Fi, and from anywhere with Remote Access. This is an early tester build: it does the everyday things, and it isn't on Google Play yet.

Get the tester build

Coming soon. The tester build isn't up yet. Check back here, or watch r/AutoMycoApp for the announcement.

An early build for testers, provided as is, so expect rough edges. If something looks wrong, tell me or post with the Help flair on r/AutoMycoApp.

What it does

  • Finds your chamber on your Wi-Fi by itself, or by the address you type.
  • Dashboard: live temperature and humidity against their targets, what's running, the water status, and alerts such as low water or a heater fault.
  • Controls: climate control, mister, heater, mist strength, fans, blower and the top light.
  • UV-C, never in one tap. The button opens a warning first, and only Confirm switches the lamp on. It switches itself off, with a countdown on screen.
  • Pairs with the chamber for the settings that need it: hold the rear button 2 to 4 seconds, then tap Pair.
  • Grows: pick a preset, set targets, move between phases, start and end a grow.
  • History: temperature and humidity charts for up to 14 days, from the chamber.
  • Firmware updates: check for a new version and install it. During a grow it asks first.
  • The camera: live view inside the chamber, with pinch to zoom, snapshots you can share, turning the picture, and the camera light. It finds the camera by itself and pairs with it, with nothing to type. You can also pick it from your Wi-Fi or type its address. The camera pairs with one phone at a time, so pairing it in the Android app means the iPhone app has to pair again (and the other way round).
  • Remote Access: sign in to your automyco.com account with an emailed code, turn Remote Access on from the app at home, and see the chamber from anywhere: readings, alarms, the camera's newest picture and its history. You can change setpoints, fans, lights, the grow and its phase; each change is queued and the chamber applies it within about 25 seconds, within its own limits. At home the app talks to the chamber directly again by itself. UV-C can never be switched on remotely.
  • Cultures: a log book for agar, liquid culture, grain spawn and blocks outside the chamber, with no chamber needed. Species, lineage (what each was made from), status, notes, colonization, photos and a day count with the usual colonization window. Optional reminders to check on them. Move a block to the chamber to start its grow on your home Wi-Fi, or link the grow already running. Share the list as text or CSV. Everything stays on this phone and isn't in Android backups.
  • Grow Advisor (new in 0.4, for accounts it’s open to): the latest grow check on the Dashboard, then every check with its stage, findings, harvest forecast and suggestion. Apply sends the one suggested change (the same as a remote change, within the chamber’s own limits), or Dismiss it with a reason; thumbs up or down; turn grow checks off for a chamber; and Ask about this grow. Not in it yet: the checked picture and notifications.
  • Set up a new chamber (new in 0.4): install AutoMyco on a chamber still on Terrashroom’s stock firmware over Bluetooth, then give it your Wi-Fi over Bluetooth (press the rear button when it asks). No computer or iPhone needed.
  • Camera firmware (new in 0.4): install AutoMyco on a camera still on stock firmware and keep it updated, plus the camera’s picture orientation, brightness and exposure settings.
  • Also new in 0.4: the demo chamber (try every screen without a chamber), the harvest log, a water forecast, the Activity log with the Today card and 30 days of cloud history, filling gaps in History from the cloud, pairing this phone over Remote Access, renaming a chamber, Request a Feature, and the Finish setting up card.
  • Tablets and foldables (new in 0.4): two card columns on wide screens and in landscape, and rotating or folding keeps the live view and Bluetooth setup running.
  • Light and dark themes, large text, and TalkBack labels.

Not in this version yet

  • Push alerts.
  • Remote live camera view (away from home it shows the newest picture, refreshed every 30 seconds).
  • Camera extras: timelapse and cloud photos.
  • The Grow Advisor’s checked picture.
  • Google Play. For now you install the APK yourself.

The iPhone app has all of these, the full camera included. The remote dashboard also works in the phone's browser.

Before you start

Install it

Android installs apps from outside Google Play once you allow it for the app you open the file with. The wording differs a little between phones.

  1. Download the APK from this page in Chrome on your phone. If Chrome warns that the file might be harmful, choose Download anyway. Chrome shows that warning for any APK.
  2. Open it from Chrome's download notification, or from the Files app under Downloads.
  3. Allow installs from this source. Android says installing unknown apps isn't allowed and offers Settings. Tap it, turn on Allow from this source for Chrome (or your Files app), then go back.
  4. Tap Install. If Google Play Protect says it doesn't recognise the app, that's because it isn't on Google Play. Check the fingerprint below if you want to be sure, then choose to install anyway.
  5. Open AutoMyco and pick your chamber. To pair, hold the chamber's rear button for 2 to 4 seconds (the light blinks twice), then tap Pair in the app.

You can turn Allow from this source off again afterwards. For a new version, download it from here and install it over the old one: your chamber and pairing stay.

Check it's the real one

Every AutoMyco APK is signed with the same key. Android won't install an update signed with any other key over this one, so once you have it, later versions are checked for you. To check the first download, compare the signing certificate's SHA-256 fingerprint:

1354552f0fc56222b8c9aa73ae13639fa16a43c32102b96614048744428ff739

On a computer with the Android SDK: apksigner verify --print-certs automyco-android-0.4.0.apk. The line Signer #1 certificate SHA-256 digest must show exactly that value.

Only download it from automyco.com. If someone sends you an AutoMyco APK from anywhere else, check the fingerprint before you install it.

Privacy

At home the app talks only to your chamber and its camera, on your Wi-Fi. If you sign in for Remote Access, it also talks to automyco.com (and Amazon Cognito, which emails the sign-in code), only over HTTPS. It has no analytics and no crash reporting. The pairing password, the camera's login and your sign-in are kept encrypted on the phone and aren't backed up; Sign Out deletes the sign-in. Snapshots stay on the phone unless you share them. The details.

Stuck? See Help, or send me a message from there.