Omlet 4+

For the first couple months the automatic door was a dream, but now as the temperatures are dropping it is a nightmare. The batteries die without any warning and must be changed every 2 weeks. Once dead, the chickens are completely trapped in the coop until batteries can be changed. It loses connection to WiFi totally at random and there's nothing you can do about it. When it works it's amazing but you're totally screwed when it spontaneously decides not to.

I never really review anything in the app store but some of the reviews and ratings here are kinda bogus or old. My coop door and light work well and can be easily administered via the app remotely. I appreciate the graphs under the technical details section for my device and the ability to install batteries as a contingency.

My only recommendations would be to allow the user to adjust the amount of resistance required to trigger auto-stop in software and to enhance the technical details view with more granular data. Maybe even just to create a separate page titled “reports” where several variables over adjustable time frames can be reported on or even exported for more advanced usage cases.

I love the cute GUI and have had no issues with the functionality of the app. I’m impressed with the wifi NIC’s signal reception in my product as well. Thanks, Omlet!

This app remains incredibly buggy. For example, now one can zoom in on the light sensor history but it only shows two hours of history (not very useful) despite the app claiming it shows 24 hours. The readings are also inconsistent with it skipping multiple hours sometimes between taking a reading. The light sensor never outputs a value below 14 even in total darkness. The app sometimes loses sync with the control panel and the device must be removed and readded because it does not resync on its own once it gets in this state despite a constant WiFi connection. The system does not behave as the settings indicate - for instance I used the app in “time” mode to close the door at 9 pm with the light set to go on five minutes before door closure, and yet the app informed me that it turned the light on at 7:30 pm - 90 minutes in advance. I am a professional software engineer but cannot form any coherent mental model of what this app is doing it is so full of bugs.