Chicken Coop with HA - JVR automatic door opener

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In case you haven’t seen it, there’s a long thread about chicken coop kit here:

Omlet Auto Door for Chicken Coop

So we recently invested in chickens and a chicken coop. We got one of the coops in Eglu’s Omlet line and we decided to also purchase the auto door to open and close the door on a schedule. The door has a bit of smarts for scheduling options. It has a built-in light sensor and can be set up to know when sunrise and sunset so you can do something like open/close at a light level but only if its around sunset/sunrise. It’s handy but obviously that’s a far cry from what I could do in an HA autom…