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.
I’ve had both the CatGenie and the Litter Robot 4. While the novelty of a washable cat litter made the CatGenie appealing and I used it with my two cats for a few years, it was just prone to not collecting all of the droppings and then air drying it, smelling up the whole house. Cleaning it was also a huge and disgusting pain in the ass when it got clogged up.
The Litter Robot 4 is significantly better. It’s quiet, easy to refill, cycles quickly, and with the newer firmwares being put out, is less prone to false positives with its sensors. The only iffy thing is still the full Litter drawing sensor saying the drawer is more full than it really is, but it’s a minor annoyance.