Aqara’s new smart feeder can give your pet control of its bowl

Aqara's new automatic pet feeder works with smart home automations and voice commands. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

Smart home company Aqara is bringing some connected fun to your pets. The new $99.99 Aqara Smart Pet Feeder C1 can feed your cat or dog on a schedule, remotely using its app, by a voice command with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple's Siri, or based on motion when connected with an Aqara motion sensor.

There are plenty of automatic pet feeders out there, but very few can integrate with smart home devices to create useful automations for feeding your pet. The C1 uses Zigbee 3.0 and requires an Aqara smart home hub (starting at $30) to connect to the internet and Aqara's app to set up those automations.

For example, you can have an Aqara indoor camera start recording when the food is dispensed so you can check and see if your...

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