ourChickenCoop

Story

I'm lazy and don't want to walk out to the chicken coop every night and morning to open and close the door. In the past I had Arduino code running on the ESP32 that had web pages, but the webpages were slow and unreliable and I never really dug into the issue. Then we had a short in the coopMaster program that was causing the ESP32 to stop working. Enter Home Assistant and ESPHome! This repo moves all coop related items into 1 repo instead of 2 different repos. Eventually I'll put the coopMaster on an ESP dev board and get everything on the coop controllable in Apple HomeKit for the entire family.

1.01 - 2022-07-03

• coop door control deployed in ESP Home
  • Status LEDs
    • 4 LEDs on front of coop
      • Blue: ESP status pin
      • Red: door open
      • Yellow: door moving
      • Green: door closed
    • 2 LEDs in controller case
      • Blue: unused
      • Red: door stopped
  • Local physical buttons
    • Up/Stop/Down
      • one set outside, one set inside controller case
    • bump buttons
      • one for up, one for down
      • for if/when the door get's beyond the limit switches
  • reed sensors
    • one for door open
    • one for door closed
  • motor controller
    • motor is 24vdc motor
  • MQTT handled by Home Assistant on door status change