Raspberry Pi controlled chicken coop door
- git clone https://github.com/pertneer/chickenPi.git
- edit config.ini to reflect your email settings
- edit sunrise.ini
- change Lat and Lng to your location
- sunset offset moves time to after sunrise to allow chickens time to go into coop
- edit file location for where each file is located
open command line and run following command
- sudo python /home/<Username>/Desktop/sunrise.py
- this will set initial time to open and close the door
- sudo crontab -e
- edit cron to add the following
- 0 4 * * * python /home/<Username>/Desktop/sunrise.py
- this will run the sunrise program each morning at 4 a.m. to get the days sunrise and sunset times
- edit cron to add the following