Ventilation control
| goal / problem solved | ❄️Overwintering collapse, 💧Poor hive ventilation |
|---|---|
| Status | Idea |
| billing plan | 5-robotic-beehive |
| verticality | vertical |
| Priority | 0 |
| Tags | CADIoT |
Problem
Hives without good ventilation tend to get high humidity, mold and colony collapse
At hot 🔅weather, bees tend to do ventilating themselves and waste some bee worker resources
Suggested solution
- Related to ♨️Hive heating feature, we could keep hive internals at constant 32-35.5 C
- Add a fan on the bottom of the hive that would increase air flow when its too hot 🔅
- We probably should NOT run a fan if its too cold, otherwise bees can get chilled brood
- Get data from 💧Humidity monitoring
- Basically if relative humidity is > 90%, turn on the fan
- Allow user to set min humidity level at which point fan should turn on
- Allow user to set fan speed