Hey all,
I’m about to purchase one of these and try my hand a hacking it with the aid of the many guides I can find online.
$150 AUD for a camera enabled feeder is pretty decent, especially for a bricks and mortar store IMO.
If anyone already knows anything about these, please share. I did search this forum and the HA integrations before posting this but didn’t find anything.
Once I have it I’ll share my findings here for anyone else interested.
Hi, just out of curiosity: will you be using this as a way to feed the dog his main meal?
Hey Nick.
My cat. Yeah.
I have an anxious cat who doesn’t like regular visitors so we’re hoping this will eliminate/reduce the number of house visits when we go away.
No camera, but quite a bit cheaper (and I believe they drop to ~$50 frequently if my memory serves me right):
A Google search should get you to I believe a reddit thread with pinouts for flashing and an ESPHome YAML config. Have had mine for a year or so and it’s been great; even have it acting as a BT Proxy too.
Edit: Looks like there’s an ESPHome page now with a more full-featured YAML too:
Thanks for the tip. Was really wanting one with a camera though.
Wifey just came home with the one I mentioned so it’s a done deal now. 
Setup was a breeze and I know it works now.
It looks like it has an option proprietary backup battery, as well as D cell battery contacts. Interesting.
Ok, I have got this far pretty easily to discover that what I want access to is glued behind the front fascia.
Out comes the heat gun! 
Here are some closeups of the PCBs that I have found so far. This one is mounted to the motor for the dispenser.
Next we have the power/speaker PCB. This is connected to previous PCB via J10 to C03.
Any words of wisdon before I solder some pin headers onto these board holes?
Owkay, for a cat…
That’s a different story and of course, for cats, this can be really helpful instead
of letting strangers into their space!
A dog could be happy to see someone.
Since you are already taking it apart, I guess you want to make it smarter (with ESPhome)?
You most likely will void guarantee but OTH it might be replaced without checking.
Ideally, I’d like to get it talking to HA so i can do all things HA with it as well as poke it into HomeKit.
Here’s an update on the current situation.
Warranty is long gone! 
I have soldered the pins on but I am yet to work out how to interact with it. I have an ST-LINK V2 USB adaptor from my my last project (Gaggiuino mod), which I have connected to the pins that I have soldered on. I’m able to power the device off the ST-LINK and the device is operating like normal ATM.
Doing a port scan on the device though, showed the only port that was open was 6668. Which lead me to believe that its a Tuya device. So I started going down that path.
I have since found this Mirabella Genio is this OWON Smart Pet Feeder rebadged, which uses the Native Tuya app. I have since followed the steps on the tinytuya project, and I have just successfully completed pulling the status of the feeder with tinytuya, after jumping through all the required hoops to do so.
I’m currently investigating OpenBeken and LibreTuya as options to replace the Tuya firmware as ESPHome doesn’t look to be compatible with this thing.
