# Automatic Chicken Door with Homey

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/automatic-chicken-door-with-homey/54818>\
**Category:** Devices\
**Tags:** z-wave\
**Created:** [November 14, 2021, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/automatic-chicken-door-with-homey/54818 "2021-11-14T13:10:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Dominique\_Vanhessche](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dominique_vanhessche/32/17154_2.png) [@Dominique\_Vanhessche](https://community.homey.app/u/Dominique_Vanhessche)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/automatic-chicken-door-with-homey/54818/1 "2021-11-14T13:10:21Z")

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I made myself an automatic chicken door by using a Popp Valve Stop.

 ![Popp Valve Stop](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/2/7/271cb6cd590a385b40a82d2368d1c807a0668981.webp)

[VIDEO](https://youtu.be/rfZ6WddoRFI)

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**Author:** ![DirkG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dirkg/32/118897_2.png) [@DirkG](https://community.homey.app/u/DirkG)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/automatic-chicken-door-with-homey/54818/2 "2021-11-14T13:16:13Z")

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Happy chickens 🐔 → happy farmer 👨🏽‍🌾! 👍🏽

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**Author:** ![Dominique\_Vanhessche](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dominique_vanhessche/32/17154_2.png) [@Dominique\_Vanhessche](https://community.homey.app/u/Dominique_Vanhessche)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/automatic-chicken-door-with-homey/54818/3 "2021-11-14T13:19:20Z")

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But disappointed foxes ! 😄

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**Author:** ![Russell\_S](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/russell_s/32/45779_2.png) [@Russell\_S](https://community.homey.app/u/Russell_S)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/automatic-chicken-door-with-homey/54818/4 "2021-11-14T15:11:12Z")

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Looks like a very robust design. 👍

Not sure if that is rope used for the pull cable.

If so I’d eventually switch it out for a stainless steel cable. Will then literally last forever.

Ive been thinking of a similar concept to allow my Greyhounds to get in and out of my back door when ever they want to go out to the back yard for a pee or poop, say at 3.00am 🙄 uggg

Do you have fox’s around there ?

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**Author:** ![Dominique\_Vanhessche](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dominique_vanhessche/32/17154_2.png) [@Dominique\_Vanhessche](https://community.homey.app/u/Dominique_Vanhessche)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/automatic-chicken-door-with-homey/54818/5 "2021-11-14T16:41:18Z")

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I used nylon rope … this will stay for a very long time. Stainless steel cable was not flexible enough for the very light door (cutting board from [Action](https://www.action.com/nl-be/p/snijplank-3/)).  
Here (Bruges in Flanders (Belgium)) we have foxes (not much but one can be enough). About one month ago the neighbour lost 3 chickens that way.