New Integration! Pawsync: Control Your Pet Feeder in Home Assistant
Hello everyone!
I’m excited to announce the release of pawsync-hass, a new custom Home Assistant integration for Pawsync pet feeder devices!
Now you can seamlessly integrate your Pawsync feeder into your smart home dashboard, allowing for better monitoring and automation of your pet’s feeding schedule.
Key Features
Sensor Entities: View vital device properties, such as the current food level, directly in Home Assistant.
Feed Service: Manually trigger a feeding action via a Home Assistant service, perfect for creating automations (like to hook up to a voice assistant) or dashboard buttons.
GitHub link
Looking for Feedback!
I’m actively looking for users to test this out and provide feedback. If you use a Pawsync feeder, please give it a try and let me know about any issues or suggestions you have! I’m also happy to bring in pull requests.
I gave this a try and it’s pretty nice.
I’m not sure I’m using it correctly (couldn’t find much docs) but it seems like all the interesting info is presented as attributes. It would be nicer to expose the info as individual sensors. I created a bunch of template sensors to work around that.
Also, how often does the data update? It seems to me it only updates if I restart HA.
Thanks for making the extension and providing the code!
This is amazing! I was looking for a way to readout the Pawsync feeder, and this seems to be exaclty what I am looking for!
Just like Assaf, I found that most values are presented as attributes, which can be extracted using templates. I would love the data to be individual sensors, some of which could be disabled by default
I am still trying to understand each property given by the integration, especially I am looking for the weight of the remaining food that has been dispensed, I could not find a value that corresponds to the value in the app.
I also found that the sensor does not refresh automatically. For now, I am using an automation to reload the integration every now and then, but it would be ideal if this is automatic.
Finally, would it be possible to make this installable via HACS? It would make it easier to keep the integration updated.
I love the work! And I am really glad it is possible to get information about the petfeeder!
I have installed and tested the integration and agree that presenting information as distinct entities, rather than attributes, would be beneficial.
Additionally, better documentation or a description explaining the meaning of each attribute is needed. I was unable to identify an attribute that indicates the remaining amount of food in the bowl.
Thank you for your hard work on this project! I will continue to monitor its progress and am eager to install and test any future updates.
Not sure if whatisjason is still looking at this or interested in maintaining it, but I vibe coded a fix to use multiple sensors and sent a pull request.
New Integration! Pawsync: Control Your Pet Feeder in Home Assistant
Key Features
GitHub link
