Yes. PETLIBRO feeders can continue dispensing scheduled meals without an internet connection, as long as they remain connected to power. However, offline feeding behavior differs between dry food feeders and the Polar Wet Food Feeder.
1. Dry Food Feeders
PETLIBRO dry food feeders store their feeding schedules locally on the device.
As long as your feeder remains connected to AC power, it will continue dispensing meals according to its saved feeding schedule, even if the Wi-Fi connection is lost.
Once the internet connection is restored, App control and data synchronization will resume automatically.
2. Polar Wet Food Feeder (AF109)
How Are Feeding Schedules Stored?
When you create or update a feeding schedule in the PETLIBRO App, the server pushes the schedule to your feeder almost immediately, and the feeder stores it locally.
Each downloaded meal schedule set can contain up to 3 scheduled meals, corresponding to the feeder's three food compartments.
What Happens When the Feeder Goes Offline?
As long as your feeder remains connected to AC power, it will continue executing all scheduled meals included in the meal schedule set that was downloaded before it went offline.
However, even when Auto Repeat is enabled, the feeder does not continuously repeat the same meal schedule set locally. Each subsequent set of scheduled meals must be downloaded from the server before it can begin.
Here's what you can expect:
- Current Downloaded Schedule Set: All meals included in the downloaded set should continue to dispense as scheduled, even when the feeder is offline, provided it remains connected to AC power.
- Next Schedule Set Not Yet Downloaded: If the feeder remains offline and has not received the next set, it cannot download that set. As a result, subsequent scheduled meals will not be executed.
- Next Schedule Set Already Downloaded: If the next set was successfully downloaded and stored on the feeder before it went offline, those meals should also continue to dispense as scheduled.
Important: Auto Repeat does not allow the Polar Wet Food Feeder to repeat feeding schedule sets indefinitely without an internet connection. The feeder can only execute schedule sets that have already been downloaded and stored locally.
What If My Feeder Misses a Scheduled Meal?
Missing one or more meals from an already downloaded schedule set is not expected behavior, provided the feeder remains connected to AC power.
If this happens, please contact our Customer Support team and provide the following information:
- Your feeder's serial number (SN).
- The approximate date and time of the missed feeding.
- The period during which the feeder was offline, if known.
Our team can review your device's feeding records and investigate what may have caused the missed meal.
