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Hi all, we're the team building this door. The problem we set out to solve with all-in-one smart coop doors is that one outdoor box has to run the program, move the door, manage the battery, control the timer/light sensor, and stay connected — all usually on solar alone. Cloudy days and short winter days make that tough.

So our setup splits the job. The door control unit mounts on the coop and only opens/closes the door, detects door position and current draw, and sends status over low-power 433/434MHz radio. It runs on solar plus a battery, with Type-C as backup charging. The indoor WiFi gateway stays plugged in on household power, connects to your 2.4GHz WiFi, does the cloud connection, calculates sunrise/sunset times, and shows status on its screen.

Day to day: the door follows your local sunrise/sunset with an adjustable offset, so you can shift open/close times earlier or later. The app shows door status, battery level, and signal strength, and sends notifications when the door finishes a cycle, when the battery gets low (it reports at 10%, 5%, and 2%), or when something goes wrong. The gateway keeps the last 50 open/close log entries, including failures, so you can check whether the door actually completed instead of just trusting a timer.

Some practical details: if the door hits an obstruction while closing it reopens automatically, and pressing the button on the door unit stops it mid-cycle. There's a hidden power switch and manual/auto toggle designed to reduce accidental triggering by raccoons or other animals. The door unit is a flip-type door with an electromagnetic lock, and status lights show green for normal running, red for a fault, blue for pairing.

Setup is straightforward: mount the door unit and solar panel, plug the gateway in indoors on good WiFi, pair them by holding the door unit button for about 2 seconds and pressing the gateway button, then add the device in the app. We'd genuinely like feedback from people who keep chickens in places without outdoor WiFi or mains power at the coop — ask anything, and tell us what you'd want changed.

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