{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AROYA Office Hours ","title":"[AUDIO only] Office Hours LIVE Ep 151: AROYA, Rhythm & CCMS Unveil an Open Integration","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4119,"description":"For years, you've been running two screens to crop steer — AROYA on one, your controller on the other — manually translating substrate data into irrigation decisions. That era is ending.\n\nIn this special Office Hours episode, AROYA is joined by Cale from Rhythm CCS and Kirk from CCMS to unveil a new open Modbus integration that connects your substrate sensors directly to your fertigation and environmental control system. No API workarounds. No manual translation. Just a local, two-way feedback loop between what's happening in your root zone and what your controller does about it.\n\nYou'll hear why AROYA chose an open standard over a closed ecosystem, how Rhythm and CCMS each approach commercial cannabis cultivation differently, and what the integration actually unlocks on the grow floor: precision irrigation driven by real-time substrate data, automated crop steering decisions informed by drip-and-drain feedback, pump and queue safeties that prevent catastrophic failures, and a retrofit path that doesn't force you to rip out what already works.\n\nIf you're running a commercial cannabis facility — or managing ten of them remotely — this is the conversation that explains where crop management is actually headed, and how the stack in your grow room is about to get a lot smarter.\n\nLearn more and see the full list of integration partners at aroya.io/integrations. Follow AROYA Office Hours wherever you get your podcasts, and share this episode with a fellow cultivator who's still toggling between tabs.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3zkYl9J7uGmkCJodQLZ2gtb1p7G5YMSafmRWy0IzUuk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iMGIx/MTA5NmYyZjY4ZjA1/YTZmZjEzZDkxYmU1/MDQ5ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}