PETLIBRO - RFID Automatic Cat Feeder, 5G Wi-Fi Automatic for Pets, 3L Automatic Cat Feeder, App Control with Light Neck Tag, Tag Activated,

Broke down in three months

My oldest kitty, Donut, was recently diagnosed with urinary crystals and requires to be on prescription food that other kitty, Mabel, cannot be on. He is also not allowed to eat her food to try and keep everything under control. Feeding them at certain times was difficult to do as Mabel is a big foodie, and if Donut didn’t eat all of his food, she would eat it all. So after much research on the many different covered automatic feeders, I decided on purchasing two of this one. It is a bit expensive but absolutely worth the price, and the kitties took up to it immediately! The setup isn’t too hard as long as you follow along with the booklet they provide, then the PETLIBRO app does the rest. Very simple and easy to set up. What I like about it is that it only opens for the specific cat whose tag you register to it. Mabel did try to bite her way into Donuts bowl, but was unsuccessful thankfully. That proves how durable it is!!! I also like that you can set up meal times to automatically dispense at a certain time at a certain amount. If you free feed, this is still possible to do per pet if you just keep track of how much food has been eaten and just refill when it gets low. You can set dispensing schedules by day and time and if you prefer for the kitties to get fed a certain amount 3 days a week and differently the other 4 days, you can absolutely easily set it up that way. The ability to also put batteries into the feeders to allow it to work in case of a power outage is a lifesaver!! If you have a kitty that is also food crazy, you can adjust the cover closing times and speed to try and help ensure that the other kitty does not steal food. I’ve also placed the feeders in different rooms to avoid this. While there are a lot of pros, there are a few cons but it isn’t necessarily a deal breaker for the overall feeder. If you schedule meal times, if the kitty hasn’t eaten the full amount, it will obviously pile onto the food in the bowl already. If your kitty isn’t much of an eater, the food will pile up and cause the dispenser to get blocked. It’s easy to fix, as I usually just open the cover in the app and use my finger to pull the blocked food down. For my kitty who doesn’t eat a ton, I have turned off scheduled feeding to avoid this from happening and just refill when it gets low. This isn’t a deal breaker whatsoever as he is still getting the food he needs! When setting up, the feeder also does talk, which may be startling for some skittish kitties. Luckily, my kitties were not fazed by it; although, I did completely turn down the voice as soon as I could to avoid them getting scared if it did talk for any reason. Lastly, the last con is the often changing and cost of the desiccant bags; although, there are alternatives that you can find online and use in place of the PETLIBRO branded bags that work just as good. Overall, this is a great product given my situation! It does its job perfectly and helps keep my mind at ease that my kitties are getting the food they need. 100% recommend!

The device works well for the most part and fulfills it's use as an auto feeder plus rfid tagger so only one of my cats can eat from it. However there seems to be a touch sensitivity and button placement issue, whereby once I unlock the touch buttons (they are by default locked) there are ghost inputs. The worst part is the lid open button is right next to the reset button, so when I tried to manually open the lid, the ghost input instead kept resetting the device causing me to redo the whole setup a few times. Also for a device that cost that much perhaps it would not be too much to ask that a camera come equipped so we can see which pet is using the feeder rather than rely on the rfid tracker which can be wildly inaccurate at times; I have seen a few instances where my cat was eating from it but the app says it has not used the feeder.

Yo lo compré porque tengo dos gatos con necesidades alimenticias diferentes. Mis gatos tardaron como 2 días en acostumbrarse a su nuevo comedero. En general, el aparato es muy práctico, lo llenas y te olvidas de él. Te avisa cuando le faltan croquetas. Cada 15 días debes cambiarle en el tanque de croquetas un gel en bolitas (que venden aquí mismo en Amazon) para evitar que la humedad produzca hongo en el alimento. El armado del aparato es sencillo. La compuerta no se abre muy rápido, por lo que no asusta al gato. Lo que sí ocurre a veces, es que no es infalible, si uno de los gatos está sentado muy cerca (pero muy cerca) del sensor, la compuerta, y si no está comiendo, puede que venga otro a aprovechar. Puedes monitorear las veces que van a comer los gatos (solo cuántas veces, no se puede monitorear cuánto comió). Lo que sí puedes programar es cuánta comida sale y en qué horarios. Es un producto de muy buena calidad.

Tiene una falla y comienza a hablar solo sin parar, no lo recomiendo nada. Me la vivo conectándolo y desconectándolo