Save your money
Reviewing the smart feeder. It's not so smart. And it's expensive! I give it two stars for the only fact that it's shape design is the only feeder that my hens can't manage to spill the feed out of, so I do love that. But the control options on the app are severely lacking. You have no control whatsoever. I have one set to time mode- it never opens and closes on the times I've set. And there is not an option on the app to click "open" or "close". I also have the door, which does have that option- and works great. Why can't that option be available for the feeders? Doesn't make sense. The other one I have set to light mode. So it should open and close at dawn and dusk. One would think. But no. Most of the time I have to go out and physically push the button on the feeder to open or close. Y'all need to get it together for the price you're getting. It's honestly, well, dishonest.
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Why can’t I open the feeder or close the feeder with a button push?
I don’t understand how the maker of this app thought people would only ever want to schedule their feeder. Let’s say it’s raining really hard at an angle and the chickens are in the coop and I wanna close the feeder to protect the food. I can’t close the door without going out there and pressing the button. Only for it to open back up because, I think, the app refreshes the schedule and just opens it back up. you gotta fix that. You you can’t ask me to pay top dollar and then phone in the app.
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Terrible app never works right
This is a cool concept but the app never works. Takes like a day if lucky to update its info like open, closed, or how much food is in the feeder. Light sensor never works and basically the only way to open it is by pressing the button on the feeder. Payed tons of money just for this all to be garbage
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Inconsistent, which is bad when protecting your flock.
Door good….app total garbage. I have two smart doors and smart feeders. App is horribly inconsistent. Set up worked but first time we lost power at our property nothing in the app worked correctly again. Not connected notifications but WiFi signal shows connected. Doors and feeder are actually connected and are working perfectly per their programmed schedule. App says all offline!!! But I can close and open doors. Can’t even begin to imagine why the smart feeder can’t be opened and closed remotely just like the doors! Seems like a poor decision and defeats some of the point of being able to add it to the app? Wish the app was better but it’s garbage (looks nice though!!!!)
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Mediocre, missing basic functionality
App is kinda wonky, odd UX.
Missing super obvious feature:
Let me set my auto door to open/close X minutes before/after local sunrise/sunset. Annoying to have to change it constantly, especially around daylight savings.
Missing super obvious feature:
Let me set my auto door to open/close X minutes before/after local sunrise/sunset. Annoying to have to change it constantly, especially around daylight savings.
