I made a jank chicken feeder auger.

https://lemmy.world/post/35076607

Custom firmware based on ESP Home, I assume?

For the auger you only control the time, not the speed?

I love this idea! Seems very safe also in terms of very little could go wrong. So the chooks have a camera so you can keep an eye on them, too?

Time and speed. I’m going to add current monitoring in case of overload/locked rotor and either a weighscale for remaining qty. But we’re about to move house so this will be redeployed in a much less jank and more permanent fashion.
Do you have a stream available? I keep a submerged camera in my indoor pond in my apartment, running as closely to 24/7 as I can on a self-hosted server (using owncast) at pond.vkmphotos.com
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Stream of the indoor pond in my Manhattan apartment

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