If anyone is still looking for one, I got myself this model (the one for 2 cats but it works the same): petlibro.com/…/petlibro-granary-automatic-pet-fee…
The company has other models with wifi and cameras as well as an app but this particular model is just a dumb timer based machine.
herrvogel@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Trying to set up home assistant for my parents’ house, I started seeing the point of all the cloud stuff. My dad wants to have home automation but he completely lacks the technical skills to run and maintain a home assistant instance and he’s completely unwilling to learn. Even after I’ve done all the difficult parts for him, he always manages to have trouble. The majority of those troubles could be avoided with a cloud managed service. I’m guessing there are way more people like my dad than there are who could be assed with setting up a 100% local smart home. Because that does require more than a little bit of technical inclination.