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self-cleaning litter box? (lemmy.d.thewooskeys.com)
submitted 11 months ago by mike_wooskey@lemmy.d.thewooskeys.com to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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Does anyone have any experience with self-cleaning cat litter boxes? The ability to connect one to Home Assistant doesn't really seem useful to me - maybe it would be nice for HA to alert you when the litter box needs to be changed. But I'm really just curious if any particular model of self-cleaning litter box is any good - even by itself, without any "smart" features. We now have 4 cats and it would be nice to not have to clean litter boxes manually 1-2 times every day.

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[–] johntash@eviltoast.org 4 points 11 months ago

Others have already mentioned the litter robot, but one automation you might find handy is having HA trigger a robot vacuum to go vacuum the room where the litter boxes are, after it detects a cat using it. It'd help keep litter off the floor if your cats like kicking it out of the boxes.

Also if you're having to clean litter boxes multiple times a day, how many do you have? Iirc the general rule is one litter box for each cat plus one extra, so for 4 cats you should ideally have 5 litter boxes.