Table router adapted with a jig to rout the V-grove.
Category: Chicken Door
Wi-Fi Chicken Door – Part 7A
With the door and frame assembled we can now start working out how to mount the water valve with a string connection to the top of the door – new ground.
Wi-Fi Chicken Door – Part 6 Video
We have reached a project milestone :-)
Tomorrow we can start working on connecting the Wi-Fi Valve to the top of the door via a cord or simply string.
The chicken door opener can be controlled from my Samsung J7 Pro using Alexa or the Amazon Echo Show 8 smart hum using Smart Home or the Amazon Fire TC 4K Max again using the Smart Home app. Oh… forgot one more. If watching TV we can control the chicken door opener via the lounge Amazon Fire TV Cube. Alexa…Open the chicken door.
Wi-Fi Chicken Door – Part 6
For this session we are up to the point where the frame sides and the bottom (base) have been screwed together with the door sliding nicely up and down. In the next session we will fit the frame top and take it from there. Oh… lovely day.
Wi-Fi Chicken Door – Part 5
Preparing to route the side frame channels but things came to a abrupt halt – false start! Got held up with a router table problem!
Back after lunch… we are going to route channels in the frame sides. I haven’t used the router table for over 12 months, had to clear away all the stuff that was stored on top and brush off all the sawdust – and cobwebs.
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Wi-Fi Chicken Door – Part 4
Wi-Fi Chicken Door – Part 3
With the smart valve setup and operating we can start making the actual door that will slide up and down inside a frame.
After rummaging through my limited timber supplies (so damn expensive these days) this should get us started.
Wi-Fi Chicken Door – Part 2
Before reporting on the Smart Valve here’s the revised balcony setup.
This is the desk return, to the left is the main desk with Lenovo AIO desktop with Canon printer plus other stuff. Made another higher stand to accommodate the Amazon Echo Show 8 on the left.
Wi-Fi Chicken Door – Part 2
The Zigbee Smart Valve has just been delivered by amazon!
Ordered yesterday here today (y)
Wi-Fi Chicken Door – Part 1
Wi-Fi Chicken Door – Part 1
With regard to the morning egg laying ritual I am going to build a Wi-Fi enabled chook door opener, not the coop door but another automated door integrated into the chook run gate! so I can remotely let the girls (at separate times) access/exit the hen house – phew. Why… daylight saving has stuffed up my morning routine!
I am now letting the girls out about one hour before their egg laying time so I have to closely watch them on the cameras and gout out to let them in. Same again to let them out!
I am browsing Amazon looking for suitable wi-fi smart shut-off water valves (actuators) – compatible with Alexa.
This one looks good with a choice of two Android apps, checkout the video!
https://tinyurl.com/ycxsasz4