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posted by martyb on Friday February 28 2020, @07:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the future-feedings-look-cloudy dept.

Petnet's smart pet feeder system is back after a week-long outage, but customers are still waiting for answers:

Petnet, the smart pet feeder backed by investors including Petco, recently experienced a week-long system outage affecting its second-generation SmartFeeders. While the startup's customer service tweeted over the weekend that its SmartFeeders and app's functionality have been restored, Petnet's lack of responsiveness continues to leave many customers frustrated and confused.

Petnet first announced on Feb. 14 that it was investigating a system outage affecting its second-generation SmartFeeders that made the feeders appear to be offline. The company said in a tweet that the SmartFeeders were still able to dispense on schedule, but several customers replied that their devices had also stopped dispensing food or weren't dispensing it on schedule.

But all is not lost. A system update announcement reports:

System Update: SmartFeeders are returning online. There will be a system reset to help stabilize your SmartFeeder's app functionality. We will promptly update you once this has been completed. Scheduled automatic feeds should still dispense on time.

Those darn customers, so impatient, unwilling to wait for their next fix to download. Please check back in one quarter of a galactic rotation. Thank you.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Saturday February 29 2020, @01:34AM (1 child)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Saturday February 29 2020, @01:34AM (#964443)

    leave many customers frustrated and confused.

    That is pretty much the definition of The Cloud.

    Just hand over all your household functionality and privacy to some remote service, and then just scratch your head in confusion when it all craps itself.

    Marketing turds have managed to redefine the word "smart" to mean "stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!"

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 29 2020, @07:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 29 2020, @07:15AM (#964542)

    Bows and flows of angel hair
    And ice cream castles in the air
    Feather cannons everywhere
    I've looked at clouds that way

    Now they only block the sun
    They rain and snow on everyone
    So many things i would have done
    But clouds got in my way

    I've looked at clouds from both sides now
    From up and down and still somehow
    It's clouds illusions i recall
    I really don't know clouds at all