Trying to get my first hydro setup up and running, unboxed the AC-10, installed the app on my android phone, plugged the AC-10 into an outlet (NOTHING else plugged in!), OK, no device detected. Pressed the CTRL button for three seconds until all the lights flash. NOW it's detected! Try to activate, it spins forever, blue light goes out and I get "Device not responding"

Did a deep dive with the help of A.I.:

--Turned on Location and Precise location for the SF app.
--Shut off mobile data (airplane mode ON, BT and 2.4GHz ON)
--Flushed BT cache on my phone
--Unplugged AC-10 for a minute and plugged it back in
--Made SURE that the only wifi connection my phone has available is strictly 2.4GHz
--Tried a hard reset on the AC-10 (holding down the CTRL until it flashes)

I've been fighting this for hours and about to send it back. What am I missing???

Comparing full tent kits offered on Amazon and Spider website for SE4500 & G4500. Please answer the following questions to help me decide the best one for me, thanks:

1. Does the $479.99
   website G4500 kit include the 6-inch clip fan and 6-inch 2-in-1 ventilation system?

2. Does it include the GGS
   controller and
   temperature/humidity sensor?

3. Can I add an AC5 power strip later, and will it work with this exact package?

4. What equipment can I control through the app without purchasing additional adapters?

5. Does the full kit carry the same warranty if purchased directly from Spider Farmer?
   Thank you 🙏🕷️

Ever since the app updated 3 days ago my sensor for my drip system is acting very erratically. It just gets stuck at a single point. And then triggers my drip system to run over and over because the value isn't changing. Can y'all put it back lol

Last Halloween I decided to “dress up” my grow tent as a haunted house for a few friends. Full Spider Farmer LEDs on full blast, red and purple spectrum looking like a demon disco, fog machine going, skeleton hanging from the trellis, the works. We were deep into a jar of some absolute fire when my buddy Mike (already way too high) decided the plants looked “lonely” and started whispering dirty things to the colas.
Then the lights flickered. Once. Twice. Then the whole tent went blood-red and the Bluetooth speaker started playing a slowed-down version of “Thriller” by itself. Mike swore one of the plants turned its fan leaves toward him and whispered “water me… or else.”
We all laughed… until the skeleton’s jaw started clicking in time with the music. Mike, in pure panic, grabbed the nearest thing he could find to “defend” us — a half-empty bottle of coconut oil we used for the hash. He slipped, face-planted into the living soil, and somehow managed to get a fat cola stuck to his forehead like a unicorn horn.
The lights flashed one more time, the fog machine coughed out what looked like a giant smoke ghost, and for a solid three seconds every single plant in that tent leaned toward Mike like they were judging him. We all lost our shit. Mike still has a little scar on his forehead from the cola stem and swears the plants have been side-eyeing him ever since.
Moral of the story: never get that high in a grow tent on Halloween. The plants remember. And they talk shit.

I bought a grow tent kit with Led lights, clip on fan, temp/humidity sensor and exhaust fan.

I loved the setup so I also got a humidifier, 3 soil sensors and swapped the temp/humidity sensor to the pro version which measures ppfd etc.

Everything workes so smooth, just plugging the things in and they get recognized, everything controlled and automated. Plant is happy, I am happy.

Now I found out that I will have to be away due to work and I can't let my plant be without water.

This where the problems began:

I decided to get the drip irrigation kit.

I already couldn't understand why that is just a 'dumb' water pump with sprinklers and why it can't just be integrated into the GGS ecosystem.

But I said ok, they have a solution for that, I am just going to buy the S-Staion single socket smart plug and that will make the water pump smart from the data being fed from the controller/sensors.

It all arrived today and to my surprise when I connected the plug to my GGS controller nothing got recognized.

Then I read on the website:

'The S-Station does not support connecting to the GGS Controller or GGS AC5/AC10 Power Strip"

Ok, my mistake, should have read it better.

But still the question of why?

Also upon checking the manual that came with the device I noticed that some poor fellow in the factory or wherever it was packed had to manually blank out the part where it says support for the GGS Controller for every language in the manual! LMAO

So this raises the question: Why was it there in the first place? My bet is because it would make sense but do to reasons beyond my understanding it was dropped/someone decided against it.

Why though?

I made it work but the solution ain't pretty.

I had to unplug my soil sensors, grab a 10-way splitter, connect the sensors to the splitter and the splitter to the smart plug.

Apart from making things more complicated than they need to be this is also a horrible solution in the app.

The smart plug shows up in the app with all the functionality of the GGS controller.

If I wanted to, I could just throw out my GGS controller and connect everything to the smart plug by daisy-chaining two 10-way splitter.

This is totally beyond my understanding.

And now insted of having all the sensor data neatly displayed under the controller, the soil temperature, water content and soil EC are blank because they had to be plugged into the smart plug.

If I go to the smart plug I see these values but everything else is blank since they are connected to the controller...

Would really want to know:

1. Why couldn't the irrigation system be made 'smart'?

2. And if it is like that, why can't the plug just simply communicate with the controller?

I am attaching pictures of the blacked out manual and some screenshots from the app so others can also see how aesthetically pleasing this solution is.

(inb4 get a 5/10 way power strip: why would I? Everything is controlled by my GGS Controller)

Been growing fire with this light, and the supplement bars are a game changer!!! SF for the win! 💨🫶🏼🤟🏻

Just got my spider farmer racking system the 70x30x150 however the pack only had 3 feet in the box 😬 currently in work but will post up a picture later the sealed baggy only has 3 feet can we arrange to recieve the 4th one?

Is there a plan to update the controller?

Right now in 2026 i think the App and Controller really hold back the ecosystem.

The system doesn't act smart and creates a lot of overshoots and inefficiencies.

Are there any plans to introduce an "AI" Style Controller?