Installation

Installation

What you need first

• Home Assistant, any reasonably recent version.
• HACS installed.
• Your feeder already working in the Philips Pet Series app, on a Philips or home.id account. If you have not paired it yet, do that in the app first. This integration talks to your Philips account, so the feeder has to be on there before Home Assistant can see it.

Installing through HACS

The integration is in the default HACS store. You do not need to add a custom repository.

1. Open HACS in the Home Assistant sidebar.
2. Search for Philips Pet Series.
3. Open it and choose Download.
4. Restart Home Assistant.

There is also a one-click link, which opens HACS on the right page for you:

Installing by hand

If you do not use HACS, or you want a specific version:

1. Download the source from the releases page.
2. Copy the folder custom_components/philips_pet_series into your Home Assistant configuration directory, so you end up with config/custom_components/philips_pet_series/.
3. Restart Home Assistant.

One thing to watch out for if you do this: keep any backup copies of the folder outside custom_components. Home Assistant scans everything in there, and a spare copy sitting next to the real one causes confusing problems.

Which platforms this runs on

The camera uses a small helper program that is downloaded automatically the first time it is needed. It is built for Linux on 64 bit Intel and AMD processors, and for 64 bit ARM, which covers Home Assistant OS, most Home Assistant supervised setups, a normal x86 machine, and a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 running a 64 bit system.

On anything else, everything except the live camera stream still works. The feeder, its controls, sensors and the snapshot image are unaffected.

Next

Head to Signing In to connect your account.