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Post by mycall » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 2:08 AM UTC

Needs a "Back in Meow minutes" on the screen when they go off-camera.

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Post by thenthenthen » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 2:11 AM UTC

Computer0 wrote: post #29

bovermyer wrote: post #25

A lot of these enclosures are almost identical. There are only tiny differences. Is this a cat boarding house or something?

I believe it is a standardized feeding system for the strays in China.

Yep. Although I have only seen them in Baoshan, Shanghai

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Post by locusofself » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 2:24 AM UTC

one of them I clicked on was totally covered in flies (the cat food). eww

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#54

Post by notatoad » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 3:06 AM UTC

ralfd wrote: post #14

lIl-IIIl wrote: post #12

This is an interesting looking cat: https://meow.camera/#7374059059738047159

For people reading that later: a dog (pug) was feeding right now

it's 8 hours later and the dog is still eating

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Post by stephenhandley » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 3:06 AM UTC

Seeing more flies than cats

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Post by dragonfax » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 3:36 AM UTC

notatoad wrote: post #54

ralfd wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For people reading that later: a dog (pug) was feeding right now

it's 8 hours later and the dog is still eating

Oh my gosh, he's trying to stay awake but having a hard time so he keeps tiping over.

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Post by tdeck » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 3:50 AM UTC

moffkalast wrote: post #7

buildsjets wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "Feeders with Hungry Cats" dropdown filters to the active cameras.

60% of the time it works every time. Sometimes those are all empty as well, or maybe there's a racoon instead :)

This is in China so I assume there are no raccoons.

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Post by rechargedaily » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 3:57 AM UTC

very interesting. how did you fit in the camera without the cat knocking it out?

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Post by tjohns » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 5:05 AM UTC

Computer0 wrote: post #29

bovermyer wrote: post #25

A lot of these enclosures are almost identical. There are only tiny differences. Is this a cat boarding house or something?

I believe it is a standardized feeding system for the strays in China.

It looks like you can buy them in the Purrrr app.

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Post by nyoronic » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 6:03 AM UTC

0x3f wrote: post #32

moffkalast wrote: post #2

Every time this is posted I wonder if one could improve the backend so it doesn't take 5-10 seconds for a video stream to connect. Right now it's quite populated, but if I ever check it otherwise it's like this: wait 10 seconds, no cat, wait 10 seconds, no cat, wait 7 seconds, leave.

They're in China so there's some inherent latency, but it only takes about a second to load each stream for me (in Europe).

Only if someone else is streaming from the camera. If no one is, it goes to sleep and it takes noticably longer to connect.

When I looked at the site some months ago, I noticed during Chinese nighttime, a sleeping feeder would turn on its lights right after I connected (darkness for a second then a flash of light).

So maybe it's a cost-saving measure for the hardware?