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>How hard could it be to make a chicken coop door that can be configured to open and close automatically using a straightforward interface? That’s the question that [Jeff Sandberg] set out with, after three years of using a more basic off-the-shelf unit that offered no remote access nor a convenient user interface. The use case for [Jeff] was rather straightforward: the door would be open during the day and closed at night to keep the hens safely inside the coop.

Archive: https://archive.today/JrIp3 From the post: >>How hard could it be to make a chicken coop door that can be configured to open and close automatically using a straightforward interface? That’s the question that [Jeff Sandberg] set out with, after three years of using a more basic off-the-shelf unit that offered no remote access nor a convenient user interface. The use case for [Jeff] was rather straightforward: the door would be open during the day and closed at night to keep the hens safely inside the coop.

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My uncle made one that was triggered by sunlight to open, then closed at night. He didn't want to get up early in the winter. I think he hooked up the machinery from a garage door opener to his homemade system

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Yeah, that would be simple enough. Most of this stuff is stupid simple. It amazes me when people think you achieved a major engineering task when you just make something open and close based on time or sunlight or other very basic data.

This is not that hard. It's harder to rebuild a engine from 2022 than to make something like this work and to automate it.