For the first time, I am seeing a green PCB in an Aqara product instead of their signature black PCBs. Other features were less important to our testers, or even felt like a gimmick, such as the ability to record a voice message. My HA and ZHA version are up to date, I’m using SkyConnect as a coordinator, so I don’t know what to do here. If I can not be home for one of their normal feedings I can increase the servings and then they both get plenty to eat.

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And after each round of lab testing, each feeder was placed in a real home with a real cat (or small dog) for additional insight into the functionality and reliability of the each automatic pet feeder. Considering OTA updates are supported for this device, I expect to see Matter enabled for this device with a future firmware update. At one point he was on the advisory board for the Obe ProBowl, a smart pet food bowl, though he ended that relationship in January 2018. It's meant to ensure that your pet can't gain access to the kibble in the reservoir, but testers found it aggravating to open and refill. A smart feeder sets up a feeding routine, so you don’t need to worry if you aren’t around to feed your pets.And rest assured, if you lose Wi-Fi, the feeder will continue to work on schedule, but notifications and settings won’t be available until it comes back. TOP CREATIVE DESIGN】PETKIT Fresh Element smart auto feeder is designed with unique stylish shape and mechanism. I have 2 of these and recently integrated with home assistant with ZHA, I have automation set up to press a button to dispense and it all works correctly but since setting up at 3 am both machines every night will dispense 1 serving of 8 g no matter what I have set up, is there a way to find if there is some sort of default setting for the 3 am dispensing. OK, so weeks later, I finally figured out a solution, I had to go into HA under the device and change it from manual to schedule then save and wait 1-2 min, then change back to manual for 1-2 min then wait another couple min and change to schedule then back to manual, did it 3 times in a row and it finally “stuck” and quit doing the scheduled times even though I had never entered in any scheduled times, now working only when we press the on demand feeding button.

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A knob gives you the ability to delay the feeder from opening for up to 48 hours, and each hour is represented on the knob by a dot with no regard for additional intervals. But there is no indicator confirming that a timer has been set, so we recommend you monitor the feeder over the course of a day to make sure it's dispensing as you desire. The Digital Automatic Pet Feeder from PetSafe is most suited to cats and small dogs, and each of the two the food bowls can each hold up to 200g of dry food. Within each lab session, we monitored and timed the complete setup process, from unboxing and assembly to programming and, if relevant, mobile app activation.This saucer-shaped feeder has five segmented bowls that you can program to dispense kibble at any time of day. Each feeding compartment can hold up to 450g of wet food, which is larger than many other cat feeders. Overall capacity varies widely from feeder to feeder, which is a key consideration if you want to use an automatic cat feeder to keep your cats fed while you're traveling. The WOpet Automatic Smart Feeder allows you to feed your pet at any time of the day with just the press of a button on your smartphone.