Wi-Fi Chicken Door - Part 2

The ZigBee Wi-Fi Valve has just been delivered by Amazon!

Ordered yesterday here today 

Wi-Fi Chicken Door - Part 1

Looking for a way to let the chooks in and out main chook run and the adjacent chook annex. With that in mind doing some research to come up with some ideas to make a wi-fi controlled chicken door that would sit inside the chook run gate, at the bottom and centered. 

 

The main reason for doing this is related to the morning egg laying ritual so I can remotely let the girls (at separate times) in and out too do their egg business. I am browsing Amazon looking for suitable wi-fi smart shut-off water valves (actuators) - compatible with Alexa.

The one above looks good with a choice of two Android apps, checkout the video!

Zia snoozing on desk.

  

Zia resting after solo zoomies.

Bailey - Morning sun

Moved Bailey's igloo to catch the morning sun.

Ruby & Rosie after treats.

 

The girls winding down with a pruning session after corn & rice treats.

Can you spot the chooks?

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Windows Explorer crashing

I have been jousting with this for a while now! 

Explorer crashes if I try to copy a file or folder or right click to view file or folder properties - bugger!

I use WFE a lot to manage media for Facebook and blogging.

Tried all the usual things including running SFC to check for corrupt system files and finally started investigating shell extensions in particular third party shell extensions - Bingo!

Download ShellExView:

Extract and right-click run as administrator.

Extensions that appear in pink have been installed by third party applications.

You need to disable all of them and restart Explorer to check that it's working OK.

Then one-by-one go through enable only one and restart Explorer.

Repeat to find the shell extension that crashes Explorer.

In my case it turned out to be Format Factory, a file conversion programme.