Progress on the Chicken Door

This is v3:

First with v2 I switched to an ESP32-S3 board, because the Wi-Fi on the Raspberry Pi Pico W… sucks. For several days I battle-tested the Pico W against an ESP32-C3 with the classic PCB trace antenna, an Arduino Nano ESP32-S3 with a fancy resonant cavity antenna (like the Pico’s), and two other ESP32-S3 boards with ceramic antennas in the location I need this to go, and while I’m not sure there’s a clear winner, the Pico W was the worst.

Then I worked on adding physical controls and a DS3231 RTC module. Cleaning up my garbage “Make it do something” code and migrating to asyncio coroutines. Learning things like: Sometimes the motor doesn’t start and doesn’t draw significant current, so monitoring that the current has risen above a certain threshold is a thing I needed to do.

This v3 is prepping a more suitable version to go outside. It’s nearly ready…

Just in time for Omlet to have released their own Wi-Fi controller 😂🤣😭

Tho it doesn’t sound like it does the things I want my controller to do.