Category: Chicken Door

Replaced the fence paling that was on the outside with some nice dressed 90mm pine.

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The wi-fi chicken door is installed and working – yay

 

 

 

 

 

 

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After pottering around in the workshop went out to start installing the chook door and then… the heat got to me!

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For testing am using my 14″ band saw to secure the actuator mechanism (wi-fi valve)

Construction photos showing the main components and configuration of the device via the Alexa app on my Samsung J7 Pro phone.

 

 

 

 

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Swapped out MDF for plywood door.

 

We are up to Version 3.0
Has some problems… the right frame side was slightly bowed :-(
To discover that I had to lay the complete chicken door on a level surface and then gently press down on all four corners and yes… one was sitting up a bit!

Went through my 40 x 20mm pine and picked the best one which I cut in half the ran them through the table saw to cut the channels.
Version 3.0 is working well and I’ll check operation during weather changes – mainly humidity.

 

In the last session we decided to use the wi-fi valve mounting hardware and here we are making a new frame for the smaller 3mm MDF door using the previous chicken door.

The new door will slide inside the previous door which is now the new doors frame!

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