PetHubLocal is a complete local replacement for the Connect series of IoT enabled Pet Devices cloud service but running all the services locally integrating to Home Assistant or other Home Automation as I have tried to make it as independent of Home Assistant where possible.
New approach
I have along with a number of other developers built an alternative that is still functional.
This integrates directly to Home Assistant and has a web frontend using MQTT Discovery so a custom Home Assistant integration isn't required and all the entities turn up automatically if MQTT is enabled in Home Assistant.
If you are interested then please email me pethublocal at gmail dot com.
Device documentation
Detailed documentation of all the devices and some of their idosyncratic differences.
Device Documentation landing page.
| ID | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
01 |
Hub | OEM Hub legacy information |
03 |
Pet Door Connect | Pet Door |
04 |
Microchip Pet Feeder Connect | Pet Feeder |
06 |
Cat Flap Connect | Dual Scan Cat Flap |
08 |
Felaqua Connect | Felaqua / Poseidon water bowl |
Background
Back in 2020 I purchased the connect series hardware and proceeded to reverse engineer the traffic from the Hub to the Connect cloud service by capturing all traffic from the hub to the cloud. Then in 2021 I presented at Kawaiicon the New Zealand hackers conference about my discoveries about the traffic. As a consequence the OEM pushed out new a bootloader AND firmware to the Hub's that has effectively locked out everything I had discovered.
This way the data on your pets movements never leave your network and you are in total control of all your own data.
It was born out of frustration with the cloud service being unstable over Christmas 2020/January 2021 and from a privacy perspective I prefer to not to have all my animals movements being sent off to their cloud service.
Legacy Archive
As the project in it's original form is effectivly no longer usable the documentation here is purely for informational purposes.