Home Automation Chicken Coop

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    Home Automation: Chicken Coop – A automatic chicken coop for lazy people. It includes automated a coop door, light and light sensor, automatic fan using timer, webserver for shows the current status of the coop and notification using PushingBox

     

    Introduction

    The project author is little lazy and don’t want to get up every morning to let the chickens out and go out each night to close the coop. so, author made automatic chicken coop project and now He have the fanciest chicken coop around. Spoiled chickens lay good eggs.

    chicken-coop-front-cover  chicken-coop-main-controls-layout

    • Automated a coop door actuator that runs on a timer (every morning the door opens, every night the door closes).
    • Added lights to fool the chickens biological clocks during winter by extending the days. The light is also actuated by a timer, but a light sensor is used to turn the lights off if there is enough daylight.
    • Fan to exhaust the stink. It running by timer (once a day for one hour), temperature sensor and methane gas sensor
    • following sensors are also used to control all of this: temperature, methane gas, smoke, and voltage.
    • The web page shows the current status of the coop (temperatures, voltages, gas levels, lights on/off, fan on/off, door open/closed, etc.)
    • This coop is run automatically but can be run locally or via the internet.
    • All said and done including the actuators, enclosure, wire, terminal blocks, hardware, fuses, Ethernet Cables, etc. its probably about $600 worth of cool stuff.

     

    System Architecture and Features

    TT14-Chicken-Coop-System-Diagram

    • Two Arduinos: Arduino Mega2560 and Uno. Arduino Mega and Uno are connected to UART serial interface.
      • Arduino Mega: Webserver using SDcard, synced with a NDT time server,  Sensor data gathering, relay control, notification data generate and send to Arduino Uno(via UART)
      • Arduino Uno: PushingBox client (push messages using a API called PushingBox, The Pushing Box notices can be set-up to send instant messages, emails, etc.)
    • Ethernet shields: Two each Arduinos with Ethernet shields both
    • Various sensors
      • Temperature sensor / Methane gas sensor / Flammable gas and smoke sensor / Motion detector / Photoresistor (light sensor)
    • Ethernet Switch module and Wireless router
    • Relay modules
    • Etc.
      • Battery / 4 x 20 Parallel LCD and Etc.

     

    System Components

    You can find and order detailed system components in author’s site.

    Please refer to project owner’s website.

     

    Notification

    The Arduino Uno is used to push messages using a API called PushingBox. The Pushing Box notices can be set-up to send instant messages, emails, etc. priority can be set, etc.

    For more details, refer to PushingBox website: https://www.pushingbox.com/

     

    Source code

    Published in the project owner’s website.

     

     

    TAGs: 201504, W5100, Arduino Ethernet Shield, IoT, Security, Sensing&Gathering, Remote Control, Webserver

    Source #1: http://www.sdrobots.com/tech-thursday-014-home-automation-chicken-coop-part1/

    Source #2: http://www.sdrobots.com/tech-thursday-022-sending-message-chicken-coop-part-2/

    Home Automation: Chicken Coop – A automatic chicken coop for lazy people. It includes automated a coop door, light and light sensor, automatic fan using timer, webserver for shows the current status of the coop and notification using PushingBox

     

    Introduction

    The project author is little lazy and don’t want to get up every morning to let the chickens out and go out each night to close the coop. so, author made automatic chicken coop project and now He have the fanciest chicken coop around. Spoiled chickens lay good eggs.

    chicken-coop-front-cover  chicken-coop-main-controls-layout

    • Automated a coop door actuator that runs on a timer (every morning the door opens, every night the door closes).
    • Added lights to fool the chickens biological clocks during winter by extending the days. The light is also actuated by a timer, but a light sensor is used to turn the lights off if there is enough daylight.
    • Fan to exhaust the stink. It running by timer (once a day for one hour), temperature sensor and methane gas sensor
    • following sensors are also used to control all of this: temperature, methane gas, smoke, and voltage.
    • The web page shows the current status of the coop (temperatures, voltages, gas levels, lights on/off, fan on/off, door open/closed, etc.)
    • This coop is run automatically but can be run locally or via the internet.
    • All said and done including the actuators, enclosure, wire, terminal blocks, hardware, fuses, Ethernet Cables, etc. its probably about $600 worth of cool stuff.

     

    System Architecture and Features

    TT14-Chicken-Coop-System-Diagram

    • Two Arduinos: Arduino Mega2560 and Uno. Arduino Mega and Uno are connected to UART serial interface.
      • Arduino Mega: Webserver using SDcard, synced with a NDT time server,  Sensor data gathering, relay control, notification data generate and send to Arduino Uno(via UART)
      • Arduino Uno: PushingBox client (push messages using a API called PushingBox, The Pushing Box notices can be set-up to send instant messages, emails, etc.)
    • Ethernet shields: Two each Arduinos with Ethernet shields both
    • Various sensors
      • Temperature sensor / Methane gas sensor / Flammable gas and smoke sensor / Motion detector / Photoresistor (light sensor)
    • Ethernet Switch module and Wireless router
    • Relay modules
    • Etc.
      • Battery / 4 x 20 Parallel LCD and Etc.

     

    System Components

    You can find and order detailed system components in author’s site.

    Please refer to project owner’s website.

     

    Notification

    The Arduino Uno is used to push messages using a API called PushingBox. The Pushing Box notices can be set-up to send instant messages, emails, etc. priority can be set, etc.

    For more details, refer to PushingBox website: https://www.pushingbox.com/

     

    Source code

    Published in the project owner’s website.

     

     

    TAGs: 201504, W5100, Arduino Ethernet Shield, IoT, Security, Sensing&Gathering, Remote Control, Webserver

    Source #1: http://www.sdrobots.com/tech-thursday-014-home-automation-chicken-coop-part1/

    Source #2: http://www.sdrobots.com/tech-thursday-022-sending-message-chicken-coop-part-2/

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