Building an automatic chicken coop door opener
Great project and all, and definitely something fun to work on, but this is a pretty questionable application for IOT (don&#x27;t wish to discourage).<p>What&#x27;s the key metric here? The chicken coop opens and closes at the appropriate time of the day? How does IOT help solve that objective? There&#x27;s some great parallels here to an MVP in the software world.<p>As for my two cents, an alternative and more robust solution, could be put together with something like an aliexpress ambient light switch, limit switches, a recycled car battery, a trickle charge solar panel, and some relay logic.