IoT Device Forgets to Feed Hungry Kittens
looorg writes:
Owners of Petlibro pet feeders have "service issue" that prevents feeding of the pets. If you can't even bother to feed your own pet? Why do you have them? Also if we can't even depend on the machines to feed pets how are we depending on them to do other more important things. But why do you need cloud access to set a schedule to feed a pet? Or that is to say to open a tray so the pet in question can access the food. As it was when it was not opening it was mocking or taunting the pet with food it could not access.
Pets should now be on their normal feeding schedule again ... Perhaps the service issue was just there to put some of the furries on a diet.
Petlibro says it's working to resolve a 'service issue' that's causing its smart feeders not to dispense food on schedule.
Smart pet-feeder company Petlibro suffered an outage on Tuesday, giving users a harsh reminder of the risks of relying on smart devices.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/979295/petlibro-outage-smart-pet-feeders
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/pet-owners-say-smart-pet-feeder-outage-led-to-furry-ones-going-unfed/
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