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

Got 2 of these units on sale for the same price as the larger Petkit auto feeder. Night & day difference compared to our old feeder.Quality of construction is excellent. The fit, finish & materials are high quality.Taking the unit apart for cleaning is relatively easy. The feed shoot leading to the retractable door requires a long brush to clean out the area. But the inner food basket & tray are removable & easy to wash.Setup with the app can be a little bit of a challenge. Most importantly, you have to have a 2.4GHz Wi-Fi network for the Petkit to connect to. If you don't, it definitely won't connect to the internet. Read the instructions as they do help with the install. If the setup doesn't work the first time, repeat all of the steps again. This is what I had to do as Wi-Fi didn't connect the first time. But repeating all the steps again helped to get a successful connection.Once Wi-Fi is connected, you can configure all of the app settings. It's pretty comprehensive list of settings, allowing naming of the units, feeding schedules & amounts to dispense, dispense history & pet & pet food profiles. You can also push a snack manually thru the app in-between feedings. Only bad thing about the app is that only 1 person can be logged in at any given time.Battery backup retains all of the feeding schedules in case Wi-Fi/internet is not available. That's a big piece of mind if we get home late from work or we're out running errands.All in all, both units have worked flawlessly for us so far. We've been impressed with the units & has been easy for my tech averse wife to use. Even the cats were only apprehensive the first day. Now, when they hear the sound of food dropping, they bolt to the machines. Recommended.

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!