PETKITAutomatic Cat Feeder with Camera, 1080P HD Video with Night Vision, 2.4G WiFi Pet Feeder with Phone App Control, 2-Way Audio for Cats and Small Dogs, Portion Control Up to 10 Meals Per Day

My cats would wake me up at 6 am before, so I bought this to have more shut-eye. It works great! I also use this during those times when I can't make it back home in time to feed them wet food. It has saved me and my cat children more times than I can count. It holds a lot of food, and I usually don't have to refill it until after a month. It's a little loud when dispensing, but it doesn't bother me. It also speaks when it's feeding time, and my cats go zooooooming to it. LOLOther features I liked:I can talk to my cat through the wifi connectionRecords videos when my cats are eating - great way for me to check if they ateWhat I don't like:You have to subscribe to Petkit+ + for $1.99 a month to playback video, watch a highlight of cats eating, and vlog put together by the app - honestly, I don't care much for this, so I don't subscribe.Overall, pretty good value for money and has really made my life easier.

Bought to replace an old one (another brand and failed after 8 yrs service). Much better.

The PetKit Mini feeder is attractively and elegantly designed. It looks like it belongs in an art museum.The PetKit Mini feeder is the ideal automatic feeder for my needs. What I like best is that it precisely delivers very small meals (as little as 1/20 of a cup or 5 grams) to my overweight cat up to 10 times per day. In my case I had been feeding my cat 20 grams of cat kibbles twice per day... or 40 grams. My cat was waking me up at 4 AM begging for more food. The PetKit Mini stopped the begging behavior! With the PetKit Mini I was able to schedule 8 feedings of 5 grams each... for a total of 40 grams per day... but spread out over the course of the day and night. This way my cat gets precisely fed her reduced ration and eliminates my tendency to give her a little extra when she begs.The PetKit Mini has improved my cat's relationship with me. She no longer relies on me for food. With the PetKit Mini she visits me often and regularly because she wants my company... not because she wants food. And it has improved my relationship with my cat since I am no longer irritated by her pestering behaviors at 4 AM when she gets hungry.The engineers who designed the PetKit Mini payed very close attention to critical details that separate this feeder from the pack. I studied them all before I made my purchase decision. The silicone rubber paddles that meter the kibbles into the rotary dosing cups are designed to flex so the kibbles don’t jam in the mechanism.The engineers used silicone rubber gaskets to seal out moisture at the feeding door and food reservoir lid. Then they provide a replaceable desiccant pack (those little packs that you often find in a box of new shoes) that absorb any moisture that might otherwise accumulate in your dried food. You can imagine that if your kibbles absorbed moisture from the air and swelled up like a sponge that they wouldn’t feed well in the mechanism. It also keeps the food fresher and prevents mold growth I would think.I found the PetKit Mini was easy to set up. It did help that I had an $8 electronic scale so I could better measure in grams how much I had been feeding my cat. I had been using a very small measuring cup. It was a lot easier to weigh the kibbles than to try to measure the volume of food.I measured the amount of food the PetKit Mini delivered with each feeding. I did this 8 times just to see how repeatable the feedings were. With my dry kibbles the average amount of each feeding was 4.97 grams. Pretty good if you were targeting 5 grams! (The standard deviation was 0.31 grams… who remembers what a standard deviation is???)Since I am only feeding my cat 40 grams per day the food reservoir is large enough for storing a 37 day supply. I can just check the food level once per month to be safe… but the PetKit Mini is designed with a monitor that will alert me when the food is low. What a great feature! It will also remind me every 30 days to replace the desiccant pack. I found some after-market desiccant packs on EBay that will fit the PetKit Mini because I couldn’t find any OEM packs online.This is a great automatic WiFI cat feeder! I liked it so much I bought a second PetKit Mini for my daughter for Christmas. She too has an overweight cat (though not for long). She loves the PekKit Mini too!

I consider myself to be technologically literate. This device is the most obnoxious product I’ve ever had the displeasure of configuring.First of all, I couldn’t get the app to work on an Android device. So then I tried my iPhone, which finally worked, but I had to enable full location access to proceed. I was able to turn it off after I added the device (cat feeder). The “one time connection” for setting up the device simply didn’t work. Also, after the device was configured, it was then discoverable on the android device.And this is where it goes sideways. First of all the app only has three pages. The first is the device page. Unfortunately it is cluttered with widgets that are glorified ads for other PETKIT products, so you’re looking at it going “I don’t own these devices…”. Yeah, confusing. You can actually remove the widgets, but why are they there in the first place? The second page is, you guess it, literally a store front. The third page is your user profile.Trying to add your device to the app is painful, because you have to go through the following process to get this to work. And it is ABSURD:1. Your phone, modem/router, and PETKIT device need to be in the same room within several feet of each other in order for the app to see the PetKit device on your home WiFi network. WHY?! No other device I’ve ever encountered has had this issue.2. You have to connect both your phones Wi-Fi and the PETKIT device to the 2.4 GHz WiFi band for this to work because 5G (4.8 GHz band) is not supported by the PETKIT device.3. You then have to minimize the PETKIT app, disconnect your phone from the 2.4 GHz WiFi, connect over WiFi to the PETKIT device, then return to the PETKIT app to *configure* the PetKit device.If you’re lucky, you can then communicate over Wi-Fi with the PetKit device. Why is this so bad? Outside of being convoluted and unnecessary, it appears to be the only way to program the device. So if you can’t figure this out (which if you’re not good with this kind of IT troubleshooting, you probably wouldn’t), you have a $100 food dish with a manual “dispense” button.Honestly, don’t waste your money. It’s not worth your time configuring it. Yes, it works. Yes, once you get through the slog of device configuration, it’s pretty nice. Is it nicer than other brands with a competent software and electronics development team? No. I can’t imagine they did *any* product testing before release.Do yourself a favor and buy a food dispenser that doesn’t require problem solving to use.