1- Chicken Coop Controller

 

          A Raspberry PI Zero W is used to automate a chicken coop with following features:

                    -Open and Close the gate at certain times.

                    -Turn the outside and inside lights on and off automatically at certain schedules independently.

                    -A beautiful Webpage interface for manual control of the gate and lights.

                    - Manual switches at the gate for opening and closing the gate.

 

 

After installing Raspbian OS on the micro-processorm, use the following codes to setup the web server, PHP and GPIO Controller:

pi@raspberrypi.local

(pass: raspberry)

Pass=1

sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

 

network={

ssid="N"

psk="8017093760"

}

 

sudo wpa_cli reconfigure

ifconfig wlan0

 

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

 

sudo apt-get install lighttpd

sudo update-rc.d lighttpd defaults

sudo apt-get install php5-cgi

sudo lighttpd-enable-mod fastcgi

sudo lighttpd-enable-mod fastcgi-php

sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd restart

 

sudo apt-get install samba

sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

 

[global]

netbios name = RP2

server string = The Pi File Center

workgroup = WORKGROUP

hosts allow =

socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=65536 SO_SNDBUF=65536

remote announce =

remote browse sync =

 

[HOMEPI]

path = /

comment = No comment

browsable = yes

read only = no

valid users =

writable = yes

guest ok = yes

public = yes

create mask = 0777

directory mask = 0777

force user = root

force create mode = 0777

force directory mode = 0777

hosts allow =

 

sudo smbpasswd -a pi

sudo service smbd restart

 

sudo apt-get install git-core

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

git clone git://git.drogon.net/wiringPi

cd wiringPi

./build

 

Place the Python programs in the root\user folder of the device.