Chicken coop door brainstorming

[orange-assistant (wisecracker)]

@lkt

Anything else out there?

I remember more than one user in this forum sharing their builds - did you try the search?

My project: Chicken coop automation

Hi folks I thought I’d add some words about an ESPHome project I’ve had during 2021. Nothing fancy really but fun to do. We got an opportunity to “adopt” 8 chickens from a friend and while I was building the cage and chicken coop I thought to myself, this calls for some automation. I mean, manually opening and closing a chicken coop door is so 2010. As I like to fiddle with most things technical the project grew from the initial requirement of controlling the coop door to someth…

@lkt

Coop doesnt have power, but is in wifi range, I plan on setting up a rechargeable battery with solar panel, to power a wifi camera, maybe the door, maybe some other sensors.

Sounds like a esphome project