Thanks for dropping a comment! It's good to have consensus on products. One good review means 1 product was good. Consensus means the company's quality control is good.

Whoa, you're right! Not available from Amazon any longer. That's a major bummer. I see that Walmart sells them, but they are going for $129.99 now. I think for that price, it would be best to buy the Run Chicken product. You're welcome for the review, and thanks for giving me this update. Good luck with your new chicken door. Hope it works out for you.

Hey James! Yeah, no problem. The door comes already set to open and close using the light sensor. The K1 button is for manually opening and closing. If the door is open and you hit K1, it'll close. If it's closed and you hit K1, it'll open. The K2 and K3 buttons are for setting the door to open on a timer. With the door closed, you press and hold the K2 button for 3 seconds. That will open the door and set the timer to open at that same time every day. If the door is open, you press and hold the K3 button for 3 seconds. That will close the door and set the timer to close at that same time every day. Using K2 and K3 to set the door to a timer would be a handy function if the light sensor wasn't so dependable. But the light sensor does really great. The down side to using the timer is that it would be an ongoing ordeal to keep resetting the timer as sunrise and sunset change so constantly. Just my 2 cents. Hope the Uxolife door works as great for you as mine does for me. Thanks!

​@@satanekfarm glad I found your reply here on the buttons. I have mine ordered and on its way and I'm excited to have found your positive review. We have only started up our farmstead with 5 chickens (2 roosters and 3 hens) but want to integrate time saving technology wherever possible. This automatic door being one! I initially was going to order the cheapy plastic ones of the same design but had second thoughts and paid double for this as they are aluminum. I'm sure they are much better. My family will be leaving town for a few days and I've been worried sick about what I was going to do about the chickens. I hope this will function and do it's job. Also have automatic watering cups and no-waste feeder cut-outs on their way as well. We've been manually opening and closing and feeding our chickens daily. Sometimes it isn't till about 9am that we are able to open the coop lol. So hopefully this we'll save us a lot of time and labor. Again, thanks for the review. I'm excited for my door to arrive. Take care and Godbless.

@@redsunsmr284 : Thanks for the comment. So glad this helped. I think this product will do everything you're hoping for. You were right about the plastic ones. They are almost impossible to get to work. You saved yourself frustration by buying this one. I can't remember the last time ours didn't do exactly what it was supposed to. It was a long time ago... in the deep freeze of winter. I have a feeling my 1 year review is going to be even more glowing. As you mentioned, one of the main reasons we bought ours was to help when we go on vacations. We like to take lots of mini vacations. And in the past, we've had to rely on family dropping by twice a day to manage the chickens. This solved that problem for us. I load them up on food and water before we leave, and the door does the rest. Sometimes we ask my daughter to collect eggs daily. But, if our trip is only a few days, we just let the eggs collect until we get home. Buying this door was one of the better decisions we've made for our little farm. I'm guessing you'll end up feeling the same way. Enjoy the door, and keep me posted!

You're lucky to have some family close by to help you. We don't have any. But I feel reassured with your review and experience that this purchase will help us do the job. Thank you! I'm also curious about winter. I'm in Canada so we get really harsh winters with temps diving down to -25C. I'm not holding my breath for the door to operate without faults. Like you said, in those conditions, even our car doors and windows get stuck! But I'm also planning to build kind of a mini awning over the door to keep rain and snow off of it as much as possible and put the door on timer. I guess everything is trial and error at this early stage of the game. I'm just happy to have a farmstead going on a few acres. Will keep you updated.

@@redsunsmr284 I can't believe I have never thought of the awning idea. That's brilliant! And I really do think that's going to work. If you keep moisture off of it, you should be just fine. I might have to do the same before next winter. It might be a good idea to use rechargeable AA batteries. That way, you can replace them more often (every month or two) at no cost, in order to compensate for the additional battery drain of super low temps.