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I had used codex to reverse engineer an electric skateboard to unbrick it. It was a bit more involved because it required soldering wires directly to the UART h

I had used codex to reverse engineer an electric skateboard to unbrick it. It was a bit more involved because it required soldering wires directly to the UART headers in a very awkward location. Took about 10 hours and it now works fine. Without codex, this would have taken me significantly more weekends having little experience with skateboard firmware.

darknavi 24d ago
This is giving me the confidence to RE my cat feeder. The company (Petlibro) has an outage and now my chilled wet feeder that should be a dumb, offline feeder is basically bricked now. The device reports fine wifi but the backing services are totally busted.
- SoftTalker 24d ago
  Why do you have a cat when you can't be bothered to feed it yourself?
  - recursive 24d ago
    You're making some assumptions. Weird question anyway. Why eat food at all if you can't be bothered to farm it yourself.
  - NegativeLatency 24d ago
    Try getting a cat sitter around Christmas or a holiday weekend and then ask this again.
  - mschuster91 24d ago
    As soon as you have more than one cat, which you absolutely should because cats at least when held in captivity require playmates matching their physical ability, you should have some sort of smart feeder system. Otherwise, you will inevitably end up with one chonk and one cat with food panic that gorges on whatever food it can grab in a single setting before everything is gone.
- prescriptivist 24d ago
  I have one of their dry food ones and no longer need it. Sad story, but it happens. My cat scarfed and barfed periodically, and I always wanted the Petlibro (the simple one) to slow feed by incrementally turning the auger, just to see if it helped. I might dig it out and try my hand at this.
- cromka 24d ago
  Have you seen https://github.com/taylorfinnell/petlibro-esphome https://github.com/taylorfinnell/petlibro-esphome?
  - darknavi 23d ago
    No, but it also doesn't not support the Polar (the wet feeder I use). A good starting point though, thanks for the link!

darknavi 24d ago

This is giving me the confidence to RE my cat feeder. The company (Petlibro) has an outage and now my chilled wet feeder that should be a dumb, offline feeder is basically bricked now. The device reports fine wifi but the backing services are totally busted.

SoftTalker 24d ago
Why do you have a cat when you can't be bothered to feed it yourself?
- recursive 24d ago
  You're making some assumptions. Weird question anyway. Why eat food at all if you can't be bothered to farm it yourself.
- NegativeLatency 24d ago
  Try getting a cat sitter around Christmas or a holiday weekend and then ask this again.
- mschuster91 24d ago
  As soon as you have more than one cat, which you absolutely should because cats at least when held in captivity require playmates matching their physical ability, you should have some sort of smart feeder system. Otherwise, you will inevitably end up with one chonk and one cat with food panic that gorges on whatever food it can grab in a single setting before everything is gone.
prescriptivist 24d ago
I have one of their dry food ones and no longer need it. Sad story, but it happens. My cat scarfed and barfed periodically, and I always wanted the Petlibro (the simple one) to slow feed by incrementally turning the auger, just to see if it helped. I might dig it out and try my hand at this.
cromka 24d ago
Have you seen https://github.com/taylorfinnell/petlibro-esphome https://github.com/taylorfinnell/petlibro-esphome?
- darknavi 23d ago
  No, but it also doesn't not support the Polar (the wet feeder I use). A good starting point though, thanks for the link!