DIY feed mode?

[Schulks]

Hello, I am going on a trip soon and will have a roommate feeding my fish. I have 3 small AIOs. 1 of them has a nice pump with feed mode but the other 2 I just unplug the pump. I'm worried my roommate could forget to turn them back on.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I could automate the pumps? Buying 2 more $100 dollar pumps for my 15gallon aquariums is tooo much lol

 

[Joekovar]

Smart plugs.

 

[Wild1]

Hello, I am going on a trip soon and will have a roommate feeding my fish. I have 3 small AIOs. 1 of them has a nice pump with feed mode but the other 2 I just unplug the pump. I'm worried my roommate could forget to turn them back on.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I could automate the pumps? Buying 2 more $100 dollar pumps for my 15gallon aquariums is tooo much lol

Programable timers, relatively cheap, and available everywhere

 

[Schulks]

Smart plugs.

I own a kasa smart plug and, it was awhile ago, but I couldn't find a turn on after x time feature. Do they have that now?
I was hoping to avoid the complexity of a smart device but I'd do it if there is a smart plug that works.

Programable timers, relatively cheap, and available everywhere

Most programmable timers are for setting schedules I looked at like 3 but couldn't find what I needed. I found a ton of auto shut off but no auto on.

 

[Schulks]

Kasa can do it, if anyone wonders. Not exactly how you want but it works.

Couldn't find any programmable timers that would do it.

 

[Snowmank]

How did you get this to work?

 

[GardenofZoas20]

I have used kasa smart outlet strips to do this. I set up one smart function to turn everything off. Set up another to turn everything back on but with a 10 minute delay. So you go into the app and hit ‘off’, then immediately hit ‘on’. I’m sure there maybe a more elegant solution, it it works. Hope that made sense.

 

[Snowmank]

That makes tons of sense. Thank you!