[blunatic]

I highly recommend the PetNet SmartFeeder. I've had two for both of my cats for the past year, and they work great. It allows you to setup automated timed feeds for several meals a day, then pings your phone each time a feed goes off (for peace of mind).

The product design is about as nice looking as you can make a feeder, and the mobile app's UI has improved a lot over the past few months to a good state.

[ezarowny]

There have also been some curious outages server-side that have caused the feeder to not actually feed.

You would think an IoT device like this would default to using a locally stored schedule or something.

[ezarowny]

I have the PetNet and my cat has no problem detaching the bowl. Bane of my existence.

[blunatic]

How? Do you have an older model? The entire feeder sits on the metal bowl and to remove it requires that I lift up the entire feeder.

[ezarowny]

The beta model and the production model are both quite easy to remove with a small amount of pressure. The production model takes a bit more work but not much.

This video is from when I had the beta feeder but the same principle applies: https://youtu.be/YHq1xHL8p2o