awesome product, already paid for itself!

We spend a couple weeks on vacation every year. In past years, we have had friends or hired pet sitters to come by daily (sometimes twice daily) to feed our cats. This year, I thought there's got to be some value provided by an automatic pet feeder, so we took the plunge and bought this PetSafe unit. I had read the reviews where people complained about one push of the button not completely priming the feed conveyor and other complications people had encountered getting the device on wifi, etc. My experience with this product is that it is entirely intuitive for a reasonable consumer. If you've ever put a device like an Amazon Echo or a wireless laser printer on your home wifi network, the setup for this feeder is no different. The app is very intuitive and there is an option front-and-center for priming the feed conveyor with a single click within the app. We have been using the feeder for more than a month set with a daily schedule of two feedings. One at 6:00 AM and one at 5:30 PM. This works great for our two cats. The kibble does make noise when it falls into the bowl, and that's why I selected these times-- it decreases the likelihood the cats will be nearby when the feeding occurs. We have had zero jams in our usage and I'll update this review if we encounter any in the coming years. For future trips, we will have a webcam pointed at the feeding station so we can monitor the bowl remotely and send a friend over to attend to any jams should they occur while we're away. Finally, my only concern with this device is that it is dependent on the vendor's cloud infrastructure. If the company goes out of business, this device will cease to work

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