I’m trying to find a 12v timer switch.
Must be able to use time of day reference to turn on/off
Nice to have: ability to track sunrise and sunset times to activate based upon daylight hours.
Hi @CoopBuilder and welcome to the forum
do you look for a ready2run solution or DIY?
For DIY I’d take an ESP8266 or ESP32. Their WiFi port let them get realtime clock.
Also allows you to get remote status updates.
Then find a relais for 3.3V to switch your 12V application.
A few lines of Arduino code and you’re done.
0_lampe,
this is for a DIY chicken coop. I bought a 12" actuator and I’m hoping to set it up to open the coop at sunrise and close it just after sunset. This will save two trips a day to the the coop and the chickens will be happy on days that it takes a couple snoozes to get out of bed.
Thank you for your help, I’ll look these up and see what I can figure out. I’ve never done any sort of robotics, but I’m hoping to learn a little because my son has an interest in it. He loves computers and has taken a couple programming classes.