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One PakaHome gateway, one PakaNode field sensor with a canopy frost probe, a solar panel and mounting stake, and the cables to tie it together. The PakaNtrol app runs on iOS, Android, and the web.

That's everything you need to start watching your first cold corner — no extra parts, no shopping list.

No. If you can set up a thermostat or a doorbell camera, you can set up a PakaNode. The app walks you through it soup to nuts: plug in the gateway, pair the node over Bluetooth, point it at your Wi-Fi, and plant the stake. Most folks are watching a reading inside fifteen minutes.

Open the app, tap Add a node, and hold your phone near the node. It pairs over Bluetooth, then hands its Wi-Fi and gateway settings across. The app shows each step and confirms when the node is heard at the house.

If pairing stalls, stand within about 30 feet of the node and try again — Bluetooth is short-range by design.

The gateway uses your home Wi-Fi to push readings to your phone, so it needs internet at the house. But there's no subscription to use it — you buy the box once and it works. Your readings are yours, not held hostage behind a monthly bill.

Out of cell range in the field? The app can talk straight to a nearby node over Bluetooth to pull its latest readings.

The onboard environmental sensor reads air temperature, humidity, dew point, pressure and air quality — that's what every node reports today. On top of that, each node has two 3.5 mm probe ports built to take a canopy frost probe, a soil-moisture meter, or a pressure transducer.

Both ports are universal: any of those probes fits either jack, and you tell the app which sensor is in which port. Those ports are wired and selectable in the app now, but live probe readings arrive with a hardware revision — so a probe won't report numbers just yet.

On a five-minute reading cadence and a clear panel, a node runs roughly three to four weeks between solar top-ups — and in practice the panel keeps it topped up year-round in most spots. You can stretch that a long way by slowing the cadence in the node's settings; the app shows a live energy meter and an estimated runtime as you adjust it.

Yes. The node is built to live outside through the season — rain, dew, and frost. The environmental sensor breathes through a hydrophobic membrane that lets humidity and pressure through while keeping water and dust out, and it faces down so nothing pools on it.

Down in the canopy, at the height of the fruit or buds you're trying to protect — that's where the cold settles and where the damage happens. The air sensor up on the node tells you the trend; the canopy probe tells you what the crop is actually feeling.

One note: the probe ports are wired and selectable in the app today, but live probe readings arrive with a hardware revision — so plant it where it belongs, and the numbers will follow once that lands.

Every node carries a Bosch BME688 environmental sensor. For air quality it watches a tiny heated plate whose electrical resistance shifts when volatile organic compounds — smoke, cooking, off-gassing — drift past it. Bosch's own BSEC software turns that raw signal into the numbers you see: an air-quality index from 0 to 500, plus estimated eCO₂ and bVOC.

A couple of honest notes: the index is relative, not absolute — it's how the air right now compares to the cleanest air that node has learned at its own spot, not a lab-grade concentration of any one gas. eCO₂ and bVOC are estimates derived from that index, so they're only ever as trustworthy as the index behind them. It calibrates over the first few days in a new spot, and the app shows a confidence badge until it settles.

Think of it as awareness and trends — a heads-up that your air changed and roughly how much — not a safety or medical instrument.

Happy to point you straight at the source. The air-quality sensor is a Bosch BME688, and the software that turns its readings into the air-quality index, eCO₂, and bVOC is Bosch's BSEC library. Bosch publishes both: the BME688 sensor page (specs, datasheet, and how the sensor works) and the BSEC software page (how the algorithm turns the sensor signal into the numbers you see).

One honest note: those are Bosch's own engineering resources — thorough, and fairly technical. You don't need any of it to use a PakaNode; it's here for the curious and the technically minded.

Nodes talk to the gateway over long-range LoRa, not Wi-Fi — so they reach the back forty where Wi-Fi never could. With clear line of sight you can get well over a mile; trees, buildings, and hills shorten that. The app shows each node's signal strength so you can see how solid the link is before you commit to a spot.

The gateway keeps right on listening. It tucks every reading away in local storage and pushes the whole backlog up the moment the connection returns — so you don't lose the night. Those catch-up readings are marked as history and never trigger a false alarm after the fact.

Yes. Walk within about 30 feet of a node and the app connects to it directly over Bluetooth — live reading, the last day of history, battery, and GPS lock — no cell service or Wi-Fi needed. We call it "offline — BLE direct."

Not yet. The v1 hardware is tuned for the US 915 MHz LoRa band only. International bands are on the roadmap, but they're not in this release.

Set your line — say, 34°F — and the moment a reading crosses it, the app sends a push notification and an email. The freeze alert is loud on purpose: it can break through Do Not Disturb so a 2 a.m. frost doesn't sit quiet on your nightstand.

No. You get one alarm when a reading first crosses your line, and one reminder an hour later if it's still cold — that's it. Repeat crossings group into a single thread instead of buzzing every five minutes, and when it warms back up the alert quietly flips to green on its own.

Yes — every sensor on every node carries its own threshold. Your tender orchard block can warn at 36°F while a hardy field waits for 30°F. Tap into a node, pick the sensor, and drag the line where you want it.

Yes. Invite anyone to the farm and the readings and alerts are shared across everyone — each person signs in with their own account. See App & account for how sharing works.

With your Apple or Google account — no new password to remember. The app is sign-in only; whoever you sign in as is who the farm and its readings belong to.

In Account → People, send an invite by email and pick a role. Managers can add nodes and set the lines; Viewers see readings and get alerts but can't change anything. Everyone signs in with their own account, and the whole farm shares one set of readings.

Yes. Go to Settings → Data → Export readings, choose which nodes and how far back, and the app builds a real CSV file you can save or share — timestamped readings in metric units, ready for Excel, Sheets, Numbers, or R. Your data, in a spreadsheet, whenever you want it.

Both, from day one — plus a web version you can open in any browser. Same app, same readings, wherever you are.

The Pakage ships late 2026. Ordering isn't open just yet — leave your email on our site and we'll let you know the moment it is, well before anything bills or ships. No surprises.

The v1 hardware is US-only for now, so we ship to the lower 48. Shipping is shown at checkout.

If a unit shows up dead or quits on you through no fault of your own, we make it right. Reach out through Get in Touch with your order or serial number and we'll sort it. Full written terms go up alongside launch.

Checkout runs through Shopify, with PayPal welcome alongside the usual cards and Apple Pay. Your card details never touch us. It's a one-time hardware purchase — no subscription required to use the app.

Open the Map tab in PakaNtrol. Every node with a GPS lock pins itself right where it stands, and tapping a pin shows that node's latest reading and status without leaving the map. The node list folds out of the way when you want the whole screen for the land.

Flip on the radar layer and live weather radar draws right over your farm — your nodes and the incoming cell on the same screen. On a frost night or ahead of a storm, "how far out is it?" beats a forecast, and the radar answers it while you watch.

Let the app use your location and a blue dot marks where you're standing, along with the distance from you to the node you're after. Walk, and the dot walks with you — handy for finding a stake in tall cover, or a node somebody else planted last spring.

Yes. The map carries a units toggle — Imperial or Metric — and the whole app follows: readings, charts, and your alert lines all speak whichever side of the thermometer you pick.

Tap into a node and the chart sits right under the live number. Pick a time range — from the last few hours out to weeks back — and the chart redraws to show how that reading has been moving. One glance tells you whether the cold is settling in or letting go.

The big number is the latest live reading, straight off the node. The chart is history — over longer ranges it averages readings into buckets so the line stays readable instead of turning to fuzz. So the line can sit a hair off the number beside it; the number is always the freshest truth.

Right above the chart — tap the metric switcher to flip between air temperature, humidity, dew point, pressure, and air quality. The chart follows along. For what each of those readings actually means, see the Sensor readings reference.

Pull down. Drag the screen down and let go, same as your mail app, and it fetches the latest. Fresh readings also roll in on their own about every minute, so most of the time the app is already caught up before you think to ask.

AskPaka is the helper built into the PakaNtrol app. Ask it a question in plain English — "where should I put the frost probe?" — and it answers from the same help knowledge you're reading right now. One question at a time, no jargon, no wading through menus.

It's the Ask tab in the app. Type your question and the answer comes back right there, with links to the help articles it drew from so you can read deeper if you want the long version.

It says so, and points you to support instead of guessing. AskPaka is still maturing — it sticks to what our own help docs cover, and when it's out of its depth you get handed to a real person, not a made-up answer.

A rechargeable battery, with a solar panel to keep it fed. Plant the stake, aim the panel at open sky, and in most spots the sun covers the day-to-day draw — the battery carries it through the cloudy stretches and the nights.

Out of the box a node runs in realtime — a fresh reading about every 30 seconds, which is what you want when frost is on the table. In power-saving mode the node sleeps between readings and wakes on the interval you choose: fewer readings, a lot more runtime. That's the whole trade — how often you hear from the node against how long the charge lasts.

Through frost season, leave the nodes guarding tender crop in realtime. Power-saving earns its keep in the quiet months, or on a node that's just keeping an eye on a back corner.

Depends on how often it reads. On a five-minute cadence a node runs roughly three to four weeks on the battery alone — and with a clear panel the sun keeps it topped up year-round in most spots. Slow the cadence and it stretches further; speed it up and it draws harder.

The app shows a live energy meter and an estimated runtime for each node. Adjust the reading cadence and watch the estimate move — no guessing, no math on a napkin.

Go to Settings → Data → Export readings, pick which nodes and a date range, and the app builds the files on the spot — save them or share them wherever you like.

One CSV per node, rows of timestamped readings, ready for Excel, Sheets, Numbers, or R. For what each column means, see the Sensor readings reference.

CSV only for now. It's the one format every spreadsheet and stats tool on earth opens clean, so your readings travel well wherever you take them.

You do. Your readings live on your account, there's no paywall standing between you and them, and export is always a few taps away. It's your land and your weather — the numbers off it are yours too.