How can you automate reptile care?

Question

Do it yourself

Hello everyone, tell me how to solve the problem most effectively without hemorrhoids and uber waste - there are 5 terariums with reptiles, where there are a number of conditions
1. daylight 7-8 hours a day (it is also usually heating)
2. 33-35 temperature at the heating point
3. Night temperature within 23-25 ​​degrees.
in general, everything, the point is - I want to automate routine tasks and be calm that the animals are all ok with the conditions. The first thing that came to my mind was to buy sensors, hook them up to the aranduino and program it (but this is most likely a haemorrhoid of haemorrhoids) =) People help me out for the early thanks)

Answer 1

If DIY, then buy sensors and program arduino.
If you collect quickly and easily, then in Auchan for 100 rubles. buy:
1. socket with a mechanical timer. Set 7-8 hours, connect the lamp to the outlet.
2. ordinary room thermometer. At first, periodically check the temperature, if necessary, change the timer or lamp power. Then - only with a significant change in the weather (hot, cold, heating season).
If you need more automation, then additionally buy a thermostat. A special one for a terrarium is better, but any universal one is also possible, preferably with advanced settings (1-3 thousand rubles). Plus a heating mat (from 200 rubles).
If your room temperature at night is not higher than 25 degrees, then nothing extra is needed for cooling. If it is higher, then you will have to invent a cooling system - for example, pump cold water through a pipe through a terrarium with a pump. But this is unlikely.

Answer 2

First, ask yourself the question - are you such an awesome programmer that you can put the lives of pets at risk?
Arduinos and other crap are toys and are not intended for use in this area.
If you still decide, then put a thermal "fuse" - an ordinary, mechanical, bimetallic thermal relay.

Answer 3

I would suggest something from the Raspberry Pi section (Banana Pi, Beagle Bone, etc)
you can take Arduino sensors and relays.
Well, yes, fuses, such as bimetallic relays, are necessary, even if you are a super duper programmer, and you have provided for everything.