PETLIBRO RFID Automatic Cat Feeder, Collar Tag-Activated Personalized Meals, 5G&2.4G Wi-Fi Programmable Cat Food Dispenser with Cats Recognition & Diet Tracking for Multi-Pet Homes and Different Diets

Overall review, Awesome! I have 6 fur babies, 2 dogs and 4 cats. 4 are slightly overweight, however food control is always changing. So I had to get 6 of these at a great expense all at once. I was super skeptical they would work as advertised, but they seemed to have good reviews so I gave it a try. I purchased about 2 months ago and waited to write a review to make sure they worked. Day 1 - set up was super simple. I set up all my pets profiles first in the app and then assigned a feeder and tag to each pet completely before moving on to the next one. Had no issues at all. My cats wanted to play with the new dangling toy I just attached to their collars, but after a couple time’s putting their breakaway collars back on, they got use to them. One took 2 days to get use to it, but all are good now. I showed each of them where their food would be located and pet and loved on them in front of it as the got curious about the noise of the door opening. I set them to fast open and stay open for 10 seconds. Very easy to do in the app. Day 2 - Watched as they looked for their food. Animals are smart and they will find food! Had to put them in front of the correct feeder a time or two, but they caught on fast. They were all eating out of the correct feeders by the end of the day. After a couple days, I turned the stay open time down to 2 seconds. Week 2 - everyone goes to their own dish and eats their own food. I had a problem with one baby camping out by the other’s feeder and grabbing food out of the bowl while the one was eating. Sneaky little critter, but solved by putting up side walls and reducing open time. Pro’s - Able to feed less at one time preventing the scarf and barf. Able to ensure each fur baby is eating allowing me to monitor health and weight. Able to schedule exact time and/or multiple times they get fed allowing me not to be woke up cuz they want to be fed. Able to feed specialty food if needed. Use less food, because they don’t eat till all gone. I have about 30% reduction in food usage. Con’s - Food gets caught in the door close area or backs up in the drop shoot. Not a big deal cuz you get an alert when it happens. If you aren’t quick about clearing the door jam, your other babies may get into the feeder and clean it out. My dogs love cat food! If you don’t clear the backup jam it causes the food dispenser to jam. All are super easy to correct. Their freshness filters are only good for 2 week. It is $15 for 6, so for me that is $30 a month. Side walls do not snap on tightly and often get knocked off. No solution to this one, just have to keep putting them back on.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I’ve wanted a microchip automatic feeder like this for the longest time, and I finally decided to get it — and honestly, I’m so glad I did! What I love most is that it only opens for the cat whose microchip is registered, so each of my cats can have access to their own food without the others stealing it. This was especially important for me because I have multiple cats with different eating habits. The feeder is easy to set up, works exactly as expected, and my cats got used to it surprisingly quickly. It has made feeding time so much easier and less stressful. And honestly, the second photo is exactly why I bought it 😂🐱 — seeing my cats each having access to their own food makes me feel like it was worth every single penny. If you have multiple cats and struggle with them eating each other’s food, I highly recommend this product! 💕🐾

This gets a 4 star from me because when it works, it really works great. But there are definitely times it needs fixing. I have 2 cats. One is an all day snacker. A bite here and there. The other, scarfs it all down as fast as possible and then went for her brother's food. We bought this for him because he could still snack all day, but she wouldn't be able to access it (though she's tried hard! She figured out how it worked almost instantly and he took a few days...lol!) Anyway, it works great at only letting him get at the food. The food reservoir for the main part, is quite large and holds a ton of dry food. The tray where he eats from holds about 2 cups of food which is more than enough for my cat's needs. Now for the cons: Even though it is designed for cats and cat food, the food is a little lighter weight and doesn't always fully dispense into the food tray, instead gets stuck between the rotors and the opening into the food tray. This ends up sending an error message to my phone to be cleared. It's easy to fix, but you do have to be home to clear the chute. Secondly, the rotors will get jammed by a piece of food getting stuck in them. It's happened 3 times in about 6 months. So not even monthly, but it is annoying because you have to completely remove all the food and fiddle around until it's unjammed. Not sure if this is something that can be prevented as most cat food seems to be the same size. Anything bigger, and I don't think my cat would eat it. Finally, my last con is the quality of the attachment of the key fob to the collar. I used the round metal ring that came with it to attach the fob to his collar. It lasted about a month before the metal snagged the carpet and ripped off the collar, allowing the fob to come unattached. I still haven't found the original fob, but I did find the metal loop still in the carpet. I would definitely not use the ring it came with and replace it with a much sturdier one (I found an old key chain one). You can buy replacement fobs and the syncing it and removing the old one from the app was not difficult. Pros: Everything was easy to put together and figure out, both the machine and the app. The feeder works as described and it's allowed my cat access to his food but no one else. It's also nice when we're out of town, as it's one less thing for my cat sitter to have to do/remember. It holds plenty of food and warns you when the feeder is getting low via your phone. If it didn't jam so often, it'd have been a full 5 stars from me and I still would recommend using it even with those issues!

My oldest kitty, Donut, was recently diagnosed with urinary crystals and requires to be on prescription food that other kitty, Mabel, cannot be on. He is also not allowed to eat her food to try and keep everything under control. Feeding them at certain times was difficult to do as Mabel is a big foodie, and if Donut didn’t eat all of his food, she would eat it all. So after much research on the many different covered automatic feeders, I decided on purchasing two of this one. It is a bit expensive but absolutely worth the price, and the kitties took up to it immediately! The setup isn’t too hard as long as you follow along with the booklet they provide, then the PETLIBRO app does the rest. Very simple and easy to set up. What I like about it is that it only opens for the specific cat whose tag you register to it. Mabel did try to bite her way into Donuts bowl, but was unsuccessful thankfully. That proves how durable it is!!! I also like that you can set up meal times to automatically dispense at a certain time at a certain amount. If you free feed, this is still possible to do per pet if you just keep track of how much food has been eaten and just refill when it gets low. You can set dispensing schedules by day and time and if you prefer for the kitties to get fed a certain amount 3 days a week and differently the other 4 days, you can absolutely easily set it up that way. The ability to also put batteries into the feeders to allow it to work in case of a power outage is a lifesaver!! If you have a kitty that is also food crazy, you can adjust the cover closing times and speed to try and help ensure that the other kitty does not steal food. I’ve also placed the feeders in different rooms to avoid this. While there are a lot of pros, there are a few cons but it isn’t necessarily a deal breaker for the overall feeder. If you schedule meal times, if the kitty hasn’t eaten the full amount, it will obviously pile onto the food in the bowl already. If your kitty isn’t much of an eater, the food will pile up and cause the dispenser to get blocked. It’s easy to fix, as I usually just open the cover in the app and use my finger to pull the blocked food down. For my kitty who doesn’t eat a ton, I have turned off scheduled feeding to avoid this from happening and just refill when it gets low. This isn’t a deal breaker whatsoever as he is still getting the food he needs! When setting up, the feeder also does talk, which may be startling for some skittish kitties. Luckily, my kitties were not fazed by it; although, I did completely turn down the voice as soon as I could to avoid them getting scared if it did talk for any reason. Lastly, the last con is the often changing and cost of the desiccant bags; although, there are alternatives that you can find online and use in place of the PETLIBRO branded bags that work just as good. Overall, this is a great product given my situation! It does its job perfectly and helps keep my mind at ease that my kitties are getting the food they need. 100% recommend!

Petlibro RFID Feeder Review PETLIBRO One RFID Automatic Pet Feeder PLAF301 THE BAD: MAJOR DANGER-PINCH POINT-COULD TURN DEADLY I have 2 senior cats, a 5 month old kitten, and I foster kittens constantly. I have a constant flow of kittens due to my fostering which their size can range dramatically. My 2 senior cats are on prescription diets for health reasons so I needed to get a feeder for my 5 month old that they could not access. I did my research and this one checked all of my boxes. THE DANGER-One of my current foster kittens is TINY. ¾ of a pound. He wiggled his way in to share food with my 5 month old, which is fine as they both eat the same kitten kibble. When my kitten walked away, the foster kitten continued to eat but the feeder began to close. The foster kittens paw became lodged in between the feeder bowl and the lid, which latched with the paw in it. Since my kitten had walked away, I could not reopen it immediately, the lid release button on the feeder did not work immediately as it was in a locked state and had to pop the lid open with my fingers. I assumed maybe this was a fluke since this kitten is soooo tiny. So for the next few days I monitored the feeder extremely close but it happened again and this time could have been deadly if I had not been right there. That same tiny kitten had the lid close on his neck and latch. His head was in the bowl and the lid actually closed and latched. I was in absolute shock. I again had to pop the lid open with my fingers. I do not want to think about the outcome if I had not seen this happen. He has been examined by a Veterinarian and was thankfully ok. After this incident I did further research regarding the “safety sensors” on the Petlibro RFID Feeder and found that the infrared sensor detects objects in front of the feeder, the bowl lid's closing time is delayed by 2-3 seconds for safety. (The sensors are located at #4 on the photo attached) There are 2 issues I recognize immediately with the sensors safety. 1. The sensor itself is located on the upper middle front of the feeder. Which in my situation, probably did not even recognize there was a pet there due to the size of the kitten. 2. The sensor only triggers a delay in the lid closing but do not stop it. In my situation, even if the sensor had recognized the kitten, it still would have the pinch and lock point. Additionally, I am disappointed with the issue concerning the lid release button unable to be utilized in this type of emergency if the buttons are locked. To unlock the buttons on the feeder, you need to hold the unlock button down for 5 seconds to unlock all of the other buttons. In a true emergency, 5 seconds can make the difference between life and death. My concern is that without a sensor near the bowl and one that does not allow the lid to close and lock if there is any movement, not just delay it….is there a chance one of my resident kitties can get their paw, tail, or other part closed into this feeder lid? Yes, that possibility is very real. THE GOOD: Not to minimize the events I had occur in any way, but other than those two incidents, I have been pleased with the feeder, and it met my pets needs. Initially I wanted a feeder that recognized microchips as my kitties do not wear collars, but I decided on this one. The RFID tag was easily removed from the collar that it came on and was put onto a breakaway collar. It is a bit bulky on my little kitty’s neck but she does not seem bothered by it at all. The physical setup up was very easy and straightforward for me, which I loved. The app was also very easy to setup and customize everything from the display, to my voice as her custom meal call, to the amount she is fed and when. I love that it logs what time she goes to the feeder to eat and the minutes and seconds that she ate for. Overall, I am pleased that my other 2 seniors can not get to her food and disrupt their medical care but I am extremely disappointed in the major safety flaws. Sadly, I am on the hunt for new feeder as their safety is my biggest concern and priority.

So far so good. These are made very sturdy. They're incredibly easy to set up with the app. They keep the food really fresh. The only drawbacks in my opinion: you have to use a desiccant packet with this product and the packet only lasts for 14 days and the desiccant packets that they sell for this unit are very expensive. Luckily there are cheaper refills for that. The other drawback is that they aggressively try to sell you a subscription to the pet Libro food app thing which is not cheap so it's kind of an app that is heavily inundated with ads so that's a little annoying but the units are not too heavy and theyre suitable for any kind of cat that will wear a collar

FINAL REVIEW: I’m keeping the 3 star rating. After the app came back up, and after much back and forth with PetLibro’s tech dept via email (there is no number), PetLibro finally gave me two new machines, acknowledging the issues I had been having since the beginning was indicative of bad machines. The two new ones have been better. That said, these machines are still a lot of money given their lack of functionality. If the app goes down or you loose wifi, the only thing you can do with the machine is open the feeders by pushing a button on the machine. The app continually wants to do updates and sell me things. The battery life indicator and notifications are nonexistent. They advertise that feature but it does not work. If the machines have to run off of batteries, you’ll be lucky to get a week. To be brutally honest, I wish these machines worked better. But they just don’t. I use them because I am a two cat household with a food hog that needs prescription food. If I could get away with none or one, I would. UPDATED REVIEW: We are now just over a year into using these feeders. We’ve had several tech issues. I’ve had to disconnect and reconnect the feeders to the app multiple times since owning them either for dropping wifi connections or due to low food warnings not working. The most recent tech issue was the major AWS outage that took down Amazon. Our feeders were in operable for a day, thankfully we were home. To be honest, if you don’t absolutely NEED this feeder, I’d recommend something else. We use it because one cat is on prescription food. The feeder ONLY works via the app which means if the app crashes (like it did recently with the AWS outage) the feeders are useless. Ideally PetLibro will update the machine to be able to program directly from the machine like its other feeders. Until they do that, I won’t get a replacement if one of these kicks the bucket. We have a 2 cat household. One cat eats prescription food and is a food hog. The other cat doesn’t and likes to eat a bit, then come back for more. Do I recommend it? Yes. BUT know what you’re getting and know there’s room for improvement. The entire thing functions by way of an app so it’s not for people who aren’t tech savvy. You can manually dispense food from the feeder by using the buttons but for meal programing or programing the widget to the feeder you’ll need their app and wifi. The app is relatively easy to use. You WILL need batteries. If wifi goes down the feeders WON’T work - we learned this the hard way. The batteries have NO life indicator so make sure you put new batteries in if you are going away - we also learned this the hard way when we went on vacation and the house lost power. Thankfully we had a cat sitter checking on them…without back up batteries food WON’T dispense and the feeders won’t open. It does require the cats wear a collar so if your cats don’t wear collars there is that. Ours didn’t but learned to adjust. You’ll likely need to teach them how the feeders work relative to the widgets they wear on their collars. We used treats and food to accomplish this and they picked it up pretty quick. The side panels do a good job of keeping one cat away from the other one eating but a dog or determined cat might be able to dislodge them intentionally. We have yet to have a the food hog cat break into the other’s dish while there’s food in it but she does paw at it. You can set the dish cover to close at a faster rate and change the close time which is a good feature. I think the two biggest flaws are lack of being able to set or change the feeding schedule on the device itself. And the lack of a battery life indicator. We got ours in April and it’s now December, hopefully the longevity with this feeder is relative to their other feeders.

These are 4.5 stars. There are a few glitches that can be worked around. Overall good feeder. First, the stupid tag and collar. I hate them. I don't like the collar because it is far too difficult to get undone. I can't imagine putting it on a cat and trying to take it off without strangling the cat. I bought 2 sets of feeders they came with slightly different collars, but both sets of collars were equally difficult to get undone. I bought 2 RFID tags from somewhere else (you have to get the right kind or they will never connect, but say they did), the ones I bought work well, and they hang down lower, which brings me to the second issue. Second, 2 feeders do well with the tags (the ones the feeders came with or the ones I bought separate) just dangling higher in front of the feeder. However, 2 of the feeders did not work like that. The feeders would not open unless the tag was touching or almost touching the pad. That isn't the way that's supposed to go because when the cat goes to eat, the tag is not touching anymore. I had to add a 1" loose leaf binder ring to the tags so they would hang down low enough. I feel like this is not a permanent solution, but it works for now and doesn't seem to have interfered with their bathing. The little dry bags are not necessary to buy if you don't put a ton of food in at a time (but who wouldn't fill it all the way up?) I have had a non-RFID feeder that I never put a dry packet in for and the food never went bad or moldy, so I will see what happens. Maybe the tank is different than the other one? Setup was really easy and quick. Zero issues. I thiught there were issues when the door wouldn't stay open for the cat, but that is not a setup issue. I wish the app would let you permanently decline the service they try to sell you, or even snooze it for 30 days. It gets irritating if you tap on something and then it suggests a subscription. I have had the foo(Solid Gold Everyday Nutrition) jam in the shoot. If that happens, clear the jam, then do a manual feed, too. I have seen other cats go to other feeders, get confused, and tey to open the other feeder by different means. They could not get in. We had old RFID feeders without a hopper, and those worked well until the dogs realized if they just shoved the cat out of the way and shoved their own head in and did noy remove their head until they were done, they could eat all the cat food. That is not the case with these feeders. They could get a little food, but the door gently pushes under the snout. The only option for the dog is to try to flip the door before it fully closes, to keep the door from latching. I don't knkw how well that would work out for them. They have not attempted that. The hopper holds a decent amount of food. The old non-RFID feeder was diuble the size and feeding 2 cats, so this is about right, you would want to check the food every so often anyway. And, the dish has little side walls, so the prevents unwanted sniffers from getting into the food while the cat is still sitting there. The display is kind of cool because you can change it to a picture or change it to the cat's name. I have it on the name because there are 4 feeders and I need to remember which one gets the prescription food. The display IS nice to have, but it isn't anything fancy. Just basic dot clusters for the display. I like the stainless steel dish, and that it's removable. Now I get to see if the weird chin stuff on one of the cats has to do with the dish he had previously been eating out of. The app is really nice. The non-RFID feeder worked with an app, but would not tell me if the food ran out. It let me schedule feedings and notified me of jams. The Petlibro lets me set up feeding schedules, manually feed, manually open the lid change the name on the LED, and tells me if the food is out. Only issue is with clearing a jam. I cleared a jam on one feeder and the app said it was clear, but the feeder, itself, said it was still jammed. I did a manual feed and that cleared the error message on the feeder. Portions. The portions of food are odd. They almost seem like too much food. My chunky cat (13 lbs British Shrot Hair/Scottish Fold) cannot keep up on the volume of food a 1/2 cup per day. That would be 2 feedings at 3/12. I have to turn her feeding schedule off until she catches up. I haven't tried to change the meal call, and actually never hear it, so I don't know how it sounds or if it does anything. I do know the cats can hear the food dispensing because I can check their eating history and see that they went right after food was dispensed. The eating history on the app is nice. I've had to tell a vet if a cat has stopped eating or decreased, and you can tell by the history if they are eating less or about the same. This is helpful. If my litter robots break, I may try the Petlibro litter box, and just be full circle with their product line. For sure having a litter box that weighs the cats has been useful for telling a vet when the started losing weight and having it all in one spot would be fantastic. So far, good product, with minor mods for the RFID tags, and I would not use the collar the tags come with. All 4 were difficult to undo.

Es increíble! Mis gatitas no se llevan muy bien asi que nos evita muchísimas peleas! Te notifica cuando hay que rellenar el alimentador y puedes cambiar los horarios de alimentación desde la app.

Broke down in three months

ممتازه… مصنعيتها جيده لكن مسألة ان كل جهاز مايقبل الا طوق واحد قاهرتني و لهذا السبب نقصتها نجمه

Sirvió los primeros 5 días, ya después empezó a hacer polvo las croquetas.

Great product, even if you cant get one of your cats into their collars...