Be sure to add a bi-direction level shifter or you are likely to blow-up your Arduino. The project uses a DS1307 to which a Dallas DS18B20 / 1-Wire Digital Thermometer TO-92 was added // IMPORTANT NOTE: as this project uses both 3.3V (RTC) and 5V (the others) I2C modules. # include # include // This library seems to take the least memory and does what is needed # include # include # include // Library for the RTC (real Time Clock). The LED's are of GREAT value, really handy to check the door status, especially at night, but even the green LED I installed is sufficiently bright with the strong sunlight we have here to see the door is open. No regrets at all, the remote control does a perfect job and let's me manage it from inside the house. The physical pushbuttons to open & close the door I never installed as i didn't manage to get my hands on buttons that pleased me.
It should work perfectly fine without it and greatly simplifies the project. If your are just looking to open & close a door, just leave all that stuff away. Not sure they are of great value afteral. Not sure it adds any value, bit thought it to be fun.Īs it turns-out the obstacle detectors I have chosen are kinda tricky to tune. :-)įrom the pictures you may notice I actually installed a wifi antenna on the kit. Adding 15 minutes delay to the closure time should do the trick and take stress away from both the chicken and us. 3 of the 4 chicken seem to be late sleepers, so in the evening they regularly get stuck outside. The system has been running for a couple of months now so here some feedback on experience. It's pretty complex at the end, but its fun to see it actually works! Covid motivated me to pick-up an old hobby about 30 years later. It's the 1st time I created an Arduino based project. A positive Covid restricted life exerience :-).
#AUTOMATIC CHICKEN DOOR CODE#
Documented code to help you out as much as possible to understand the code.A bunch of little settings to faciliate some requirements you might have.Remote control to operate the door and the flashing lights manually.Two buttons to operate the door manually.LED's visible from the outside to show the status of the door.Intrudor detectors with flashing LED's at two locations.Opening and closing the door at sunrise and sunset based on your local geographic coordinates.Faciliate the chicken logistics with this project.Build a new chicken coop "Forteresse pour poules de Luxe" that is strong and secured.
Tear down the old chicken coop as it was starting to be in a pretty bad shape.Having lost our chicken to wildlife intrudors on two occasions made me do a few things:
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