1. permanently stop this plugin develop ,unpublish from npmjs.com and no more further issue will be answerd.
2. highly recommended you the pet owner and pet lovers stop buying any petkit products.
3. it better feed your soul mate with natural food, like raw meat or dried meat.
4. thank you for your support.
control your petkit feeder mini from homekit, get full use of iOS automation.
Goto App Store, download Petkit mobile app, register, login, add device. before use this plugin you MUST make sure the app works fine with you.
Please goto this wiki page to find more detail.
you should provide one critical infomation to this plugin: X-Session, if you have more than one Petkit feeder mini device, then you should alse provide deviceId in the header field of the config.json file.
Be aware of that, to minimize the effect to the Petkit server with unnecessary http requests, the plugin just update device status more than 10s interval, which means the status will bufferd at lease 10s.
here is a example of Quantumult X capture data page:
you can find X-Session data from the request header area and deviceId in response data area.
field name | type | required | default | range | description |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
platform | string | yes | 'petkit_feeder_mini' | 'petkit_feeder_mini' | Must be 'petkit_feeder_mini' in order to use this plugin. |
log_level | int | no | 2 | 1,2,3,4,9 | one of these values: - 1: Debug - 2: Info - 3: Warn - 4: Error - 9: None |
devices | object | yes | --- | --- | Petkit Feeder device config. See more detail info at decices field below. |
field name | type | required | default | range | description |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
location | string | yes | 'cn' | 'cn', 'asia', 'north_america' |
China users:'cn'; Asia users: 'asia'; North America users: 'north_america'; other location because lack of infomation, not sure it will work. You can find more info here. |
model | string | no | 'FeederMini' | 'FeederMini', 'Feeder' |
Petkit Feeder Mini: 'FeederMini' Petkit Feeder Element: 'Feeder' |
deviceId | string | tbd | --- | --- | your Petkit feeder mini Id, which is buildin your device, will never change. If you just have one Petkit feeder device, you can ignore this value. If you just have more than one Petkit Feeder device, you must set this value. |
headers | array | yes | --- | --- | http request headers. See more detail info at headers field below. |
enable_http_retry | no | false | true/false | Enable or disable HTTP retry function, useful when your device or homebridge has a bad internet connection. | |
http_retry_count | int | no | 3 | 1 to 5 | max retry times when a http request failed. |
DropMeal_name | string | no | 'DropMeal' | --- | name of DropMeal switch in HomeKit. |
MealAmount_name | string | no | 'MealAmount' | --- | name of MealAmount fan speed in HomeKit. |
FoodStorage_name | string | no | 'FoodStorage_Empty' or 'FoodStorage' |
--- | name of FoodStorage indicator in HomeKit. Note: if reverse_foodStorage_indicator value is set to true, then the default name is 'FoodStorage_Empty', otherwise 'FoodStorage' |
DesiccantLevel_name | string | no | 'DesiccantLevel' | --- | name of DesiccantLevel indicator in HomeKit. |
ManualLock_name | string | no | 'ManualLock' | --- | name of ManualLock switch in HomeKit. |
LightMode_name | string | no | 'LightMode' | --- | name of LightMode switch in HomeKit. |
Battery_name | string | no | 'Battery' | --- | name of Battery indicator in HomeKit. |
enable_polling | bool | no | true | true/false | Automatically update device info from Petkit server. |
polling_interval | int | no | 60 | 60 to 3600 | update device info interval from Petkit server(s). |
enable_manualLock | bool | no | false | true/false | if enabled, a switch will show in homekit to control the manual lock of the feeder. |
enable_lightMode | bool | no | false | true/false | if enabled, a switch will show in homekit to control the lighe mode of the feeder. |
reverse_foodStorage _indicator |
bool | no | false | true/false | normally, the occupancy will show an alert in homekit when there is enough food in the feeder, in which situation may not so recognizable, so you can reverse the status bu set this value to true, so when there is not much food, it can show an alert in homekit. |
ignore_battery_when _charging |
bool | no | false | true/false | Ignore battery low level alerm when device connected to a power source. And battery function is disabled when using a Petkit Feeder Element device. |
fast_response | bool | no | false | true/false | if set to true, then when received a Homekit set request, return immediately, ignore the result. this is useful when your homebridge or Petkit device has a bad internet connection. |
field name | type | required | default | range | description |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
X-Session | string | yes | --- | --- | Tell server who you are. This changes everytime you login Petkit app. |
X-Api-Version | string | prefer | '7.18.1' | --- | For China mainland users, this field is not necessary, but for users outside China mainland, this field is optional, if not provided, then the default value will be used. but we recommand to fufill this field. |
X-Timezone | int | no | 8 | -12 to 12 | Your local timezone offset, UTC time. If autoDeviceInfo is set to true, it will overwrited with the timezone of your device, which is set in your Petkit app. |
we recomand you entered all the headers you captured. If you don't want to do so, please ensure header "X-Session" is correctly entered.
"platforms": [{
"log_level": 2,
"devices": [
{
"headers": [
{
"key": "X-Session",
"value": "xxxxxx"
}
],
"location": "cn",
"model": "FeederMini",
"enable_http_retry": false,
"http_retry_count": 3,
"DropMeal_name": "DropMeal",
"MealAmount_name": "MealAmount",
"FoodStorage_name": "FoodStorage",
"DesiccantLevel_name": "DesiccantLevel",
"ManualLock_name": "ManualLock",
"LightMode_name": "LightMode",
"Battery_name": "Battery",
"enable_polling": true,
"polling_interval": 60,
"enable_desiccant": true,
"alert_desiccant_threshold": 7,
"enable_autoreset_desiccant": true,
"reset_desiccant_threshold": 5,
"enable_manualLock": true,
"enable_lightMode": true,
"reverse_foodStorage_indicator": true,
"fast_response": true
}
],
"platform": "petkit_feeder_mini"
}]