The Chicken Coop Project

9 Feb 2014

I live on the side of Tiger Mountain in the Issaquah alps. We keep chickens but there are a lot of predators in the woods so they are caged in. But I still need to watch them. I currently use a fixed IR in the coop and another PT ip camera outside. I am making a controller and have drawings in Google Sketch-Up.

Hopefully more is to come.

wymand over 12 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

It is great to define needs however be prepared modify them as things progress.
Also expect roadblocks to overcome.

Doug monitoring my chickens and new chicks in the coop and out
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johnbeetem over 12 years ago

Great name for a project

Link to XXICC (pronounced "Chicken Coop")
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DAB over 12 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

Yes indeed, define your needs before you design.

You might want to look at the projects where they added the RPi Camera to an RPi over wifi.

Essentially they would get you the ability to monitor anything via remote.
If you add an X and Y motor set, you could then pan around to cover the entire area of concern.

DAB
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e14 Contributor over 12 years ago

Nice! I am a little obsessed with watching my chickens, I have a grand idea in my head about a Coop Nanny that would monitor, record (livestream?), send me heat warnings and possibly keep weather data such as daylight hours, temperature, etc. It would be awesome to have the Nanny send me an alert if there is night activity (predators)... Seems like a good time for me to get this down in a requirements doc, right?
Susan
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