Comment by darknavi
1 day ago
This is giving me the confidence to RE my cat feeder. The company (Petlibro) has an outage and now my chilled wet feeder that should be a dumb, offline feeder is basically bricked now.
The device reports fine wifi but the backing services are totally busted.
Have you seen https://github.com/taylorfinnell/petlibro-esphome?
No, but it also doesn't not support the Polar (the wet feeder I use). A good starting point though, thanks for the link!
I have one of their dry food ones and no longer need it. Sad story, but it happens.
My cat scarfed and barfed periodically, and I always wanted the Petlibro (the simple one) to slow feed by incrementally turning the auger, just to see if it helped. I might dig it out and try my hand at this.
Why do you have a cat when you can't be bothered to feed it yourself?
Try getting a cat sitter around Christmas or a holiday weekend and then ask this again.
As soon as you have more than one cat, which you absolutely should because cats at least when held in captivity require playmates matching their physical ability, you should have some sort of smart feeder system.
Otherwise, you will inevitably end up with one chonk and one cat with food panic that gorges on whatever food it can grab in a single setting before everything is gone.
You're making some assumptions.
Weird question anyway. Why eat food at all if you can't be bothered to farm it yourself.