Greetings,
Here is my new project: HenHouse: a smart and autonomous HenHouse: controller for my hen house
Key features are:
- Runs on an Adafruit Feather 32u4 board (ATmega32u4) equiped with a LoRa Radio Module
- Entrance guillotine-style door is motorized. Two reed end-switches detect the door open/close positions
- UP/DOWN interface buttons to manually force door opening/closing
- Door automatically opens/closes at sunrise and sunset (function of an ambient light threshold)
- Measures individual temperatures in 4 nesting boxes (aim is to detect when a new egg was layed) + computes an average
- Runs on a 3.7V 4400mAh Lithium Ion Battery Pack and a 6V, 1W solar panel
- Goes to DeepSleep until UP/DOWN buttons are pressed + wakes up every minute to broadcast data over LoRaWan measured inputs
- Broadcasts every few minutes the systems’ metrics (temperatures, ambient light level, door position, battery level and charging status), received by home automation system in JSON format via MQTT broker
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