Open phrend opened 3 years ago
First off, thanks for the gratitude, it is definitely appreciated!
So, this is actually the feeder trying to tell FeederNet that there was an error dispensing food. The problem is that there is a bug in their code that grabs the wrong bits from memory and returns gibberish at the end of the error message.
This means that FeederNet correctly sent the new schedule to the device and it is just failing to dispense for some reason. My suggestion is turning it off and on again using the switch on the back. If that doesn’t work, try removing a meal and re-adding it. This will force FeederNet to resend the right schedule.
Is this still happening, @phrend ?
@kruton I'm sorry to say that I could not get my feeder to reliably respond to changes in the feeding schedule. With the right combination of reboots and luck, it would sometimes update, but since a change to my feeding schedule is almost always linked to me going away from home and needing to depend on the feeder to feed my pets, I decided to buy a new feeder from another manufacturer. (I kept my PetNet, with the idea that I might replace the controller with an ESP-32 or that this software might find better ways of dealing with the existing hardware/software limitations, but it's not currently in use.)
I'll start by giving you a big THANK YOU for breathing new life into my feeder! I successfully got everything set up about 3 months ago, and at the time, had only configured 1 feeding per day. It was working, but I ran into trouble when I tried to modify the feeding time by an hour - my feeder was still checking in regularly, but it was feeding at the, "old" time. I got around this by restarting the container, and switching the feeder off, then on via the switch on the back. Not a big deal, but unexpected - and I'm not sure if that behavior is related to my current issue, or not?
My current issue is that I added 2 additional feeding times (breakfast @9am and dinner @8pm), to see if I could rely on the feeder when I'm away from home overnight, but the new feeding times are not actually occurring (the original lunch feeding @1pm is still working).
So, my question is - are multiple feedings per day currently supported? If so, how can I help debug what's going wrong?
I do see this error in the logs, that occurs at 8pm, which is the new dinner feeding time - every night:
Thanks in advance, for any help you can provide!