PETLIBROAutomatic Cat Feeder, Wi-Fi Automatic Cat Food Dispenser with Timer Interactive Voice Recorder, Auto Cat Feeder with 1-4 Meals Control Dry Food

I did purchase these for my two cats, who haunt us at 4 a.m. every morning to feed them their wet food. I decided to get these to time them out with dry food snacks until we wake up at 6 a.m.The product itself is great and well made, and it works great on the app. You can record your voice and schedule feeds and how much of a portion. If you have a hungry gremlin like us, I bought heavy-duty Velcro to secure it from being knocked over, and it works amazing! I suggest that.I am still training them that it will come out at 4 a.m. to get them both at their bowls. My one girl is still getting used to the sound it makes when it releases the food. It's not bad at all, but she's a nervous nelly, so I wake up with them every morning, get them used to it releasing, and monitor them while they eat. I am hoping that within a few weeks, I can have them sitting there waiting for their food to come out, lol. Fingers crossed. Great product.

Love, love this product. It's nice looking and you can program this for as many feedings as you need. We put my husband's voice on it so every time there is a feeding she can hear it. My friends get such a kick out of it. I'm really glad we chose this, and I've turned a few people on to this as well.

Yet another update: This feeder has worked perfectly ever since it clogged up once right after I got it. I really love it now. The only thing is, I don’t get an alert when the feeder gets low or is empty. If I would receive alerts, this would be 5 stars all day!Okay, I am updating again. I ended up keeping the feeder. I somehow got it working again and so far, knock on wood, I haven’t had anymore trouble, so we’ll see just how reliable it ends up being.So, I’ve had this feeder for a couple of weeks and it has now started malfunctioning. It keeps telling me there is some sort of exception. I can’t possibly leave for a long weekend now. I got this so my husband and I could go away some weekends and had high hopes. Unfortunately, since I can’t trust it, I’m going to return it.I just received this cat feeder, so I will revise my review if I encounter any problems. So far, this was very easy to set up and fool proof to hook up to the app. I was worried about pairing app on my phone with the cat feeder, but I didn’t have to touch the feeder, it hooked up automatically. It will probably take a while to perfect the portion size. You can set up certain times to have food dispense, the only thing is, you have to manually press the button to dispense and count how many times you pressed it to dispense the desired amount of food. Once you do that, you will know how many servings to select per feeding time and can set up automatic feedings. One portion size is a very small amount. As of right now, I am extremely pleased with this automatic feeder. It’s pretty neat to be able to set it up from your phone so you can very easily adjust times and servings. You can even dispense food from the app no matter where you are. So far I love it!

This is easily the angriest review I've ever written. But if you make a crappy product that negatively impacts people's pets, yous should probably expect that.If what you're looking for is a stylish pet food *container* (not feeder!!) that can, on occasion, correctly keep time, this is the product for you. If you want something that will actually feed your animal at the scheduled time, buy something else.I've had these for a few months now, they go offline constantly. Nothing else in my home seems to struggle with keeping connected to the network, and they're only about 50 ft from the router. Although per the setup instructions, that's still too far away (I guess this company feels I should be feeding my pets in my office). The first time it went offline I thought "things happen, I'll turn on offline notifications, and reset it when it happens again" (because it apparently incapable of recovering on it's own). It was irritating having to cold boot these things every couple weeks, but not the end of the world, since I'm working from home right now and could typically do it immediately without my cats going hungry.This last time it happened, I was luckily in my kitchen during one of the feeding times and didn't hear it go off, so I checked my phone, no offline notification. So I go to the junk app that you have to use to manage these things: it's listed as offline and has apparently been offline for 18hrs. So why no notification??But hold on, there's more. I have two of these, one for each of my pets, and neither of feeders went off, but only one is listed as "offline", so I go to the feed log of the one that's still online, and low and behold it hasn't issued a feed for 18hrs (I have 5 micro feeds scheduled a day)! So I check the feed schedule, and all 5 feeds are still marked as active, so why didn't it dispense food if it knows the feeds are active and it's online?Frankly, it shouldn't need to be online to even dispense a feed. It should connect to the cloud, pull it's configuration, sync the clock, etc. But if it falls offline it should still be able to dispense a feed based off it's last pushed config, and keep it's own time until it's able to sync again. Even a very low quality oscillator will only have a min or two of drift, and that's assuming it stays offline for weeks! I mean for heaven's sake, it's basically just a cron job...The actual mechanics of this product are fine. It's quiet compared to my last auto-feeder, it's easy to clean, and I like that it has a stainless steel feeding tray. But none of that matters if it *won't actually feed my cats consistently*. The software implementation is so unbelievably lazy for a product that actually made it to market. So far as I can tell, their very poorly made application backend has to *send a push* from this companies extremely poorly managed cloud instance (see other comments for details about the AWS fiasco) in order to dispense food. The proper implementation for a product like this is that if it's updated through the app those changes are pushed, but that the device otherwise runs headlessly (and anytime it is online, it should continue to sync NTP, and again even the drift incurred while offline would be nominal). It's not a TE Controller! It's not performing real time analytics!! It doesn't need to be in touch with application processing 100% (or even 10%) of the time!I could *literally* build better software myself (backend anyway, but I'd rather manually push a JSON or XML file to update a config than continue to deal with their app). And if I can find a way to remove the horrible wNIC and processor from it, and wedge a pi in there, that's exactly what I'll do (cause like I said, the mechanics of it are totally fine).