Vent: Wasted $60 on that fancy automatic chicken door

I bought one of those solar powered auto doors off Amazon back in April. Worked great for like two weeks, then it just stopped opening one morning and I didn't notice until I came home from work. Poor girls were stuck in the coop all day with no water in the July heat. Ended up having to tear the whole thing out and go back to my old manual door. Has anyone else had luck with any automatic doors that actually last more than a month?

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vera_lewis9d ago

Honestly did you try resetting the sensor? Sometimes they just need a good hard reset.

smith.ray9d ago

I heard about some guy who fixed his sensor just by holding the reset button for 30 seconds instead of the usual 10. @vera_lewis is right, that simple step saved me a service call last month.