Cats and dogs are missing meals after a popular smart feeder went down
A Petlibro outage is preventing its smart pet feeders and other devices from performing scheduled tasks, like dispensing food. The outage began on Tuesday, with users across Reddit reporting that their smart feeders, litter boxes, and water fountains have gone offline. Though Petlibro maintains that "existing settings and schedules stored locally on your device will […]
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This is why smart home devices need to not rely on external servers. Ideally it shouldn't even need to be connecting at all.
Not smart = smart.
I did the smart home thing and love it ... after I replaced all the cloud based trash with locally controlled devices.
An echo from the future. Within this generation we'll start seeing this with humans. Prepare to be pizzled.