Hello,
I want to automate a chicken roost-box perch
In the down (open) position the chickens may enter the egg laying compartment. When up (closed). the chickens cannot enter the egg laying compartment.
It is desirable to:
Open (lower) at dawn
Close (raise) at dusk
Actuonix has a timer and linear actuator that fits the bill EXCEPT it also needs to close when there are no chickens in the compartment. Because this was a requirement, Actuonix suggested I contact your shop.
Can you help me?
The products Actuonics offer for this:
So the timer relay and actuator should work without problem.
Problem is how to detect if there are no chickens left in the compartment? I think you could use PIR sensor here: https://www.robotshop.com/search?q=PIR
But, I don’t see how you could connect this sensor without microcontoller, so I guess you could use Arduino for this. In the end, maybe you don’t need timer relay, but you can use regular relay and program timing functions inside Arduino project.
