Smart pet feeders stopped feeding pets during a cloud outage (theverge.com)

I actually refreshed my petlibro feeders and water fountains with a replacement esphome firmware https://github.com/taylorfinnell/petlibro-esphome

Works great and completely local.

Unless I'm missing something, seems kind of short-sighted to not keep a local copy of the schedule just for this very situation?

In fact, why would you even design it like this to begin with? It's not like a pet feeding schedule is dynamic data that changes every day. Makes no sense.

Feeder Robot (from makers of Litter Robot) has a simple offline manual mode using just buttons; i believe if you use the app and program a custom schedule it gets retained but the manual mode should be enough unless there are special dietary concerns