Applicability of pioreactor hardware/software for larger bioreactor setups?

I’m currently running a benchtop bioreactor setup in the 1L range, and have temperature, DO, pH sensors etc. In general, bioreactor software is expensive and tends to be pretty locked into using specific hardware/software combinations. I basically want to be able to use whatever the cheapest hardware is that’s available and control it using custom scripts (dose base when pH gets too low etc.).

I like the philosophy of the pioreactor, and the code and hardware base seem great. I’m just wondering, before I embark on trying to get it to work, if there’s anything fundamentally stopping me from using what’s already there combined with plugins etc. for my use case?