Customer Reviews for Whisker - Litter-Robot 4 Litter Hopper White
Customer Rating
5
Makes the LR4 complete
on August 11, 2024
Posted by: Julia
As another reviewer mentioned, the Litter Hopper completes the package of truly being able to claim convenience. I took the opportunity to deep clean the machine while taking it apart to add the Hopper bonnet, including all of the sensors. The whole job of disassembling, cleaning, and installation took about 30 minutes from start to finish but it was well worth it. I anticipate being able to fully ignore the LR for about 5-6 days at a time, which is a small miracle given that we have 2 rather large cats (Siamese and Ragdoll) that use a lot of litter.
The QR code included with this product has a video that does not explain anything about installing the gray "key" piece to make the LitterHopper work, yet the full version on Youtube does. Why is this missing from instructions?
The litter hopper is a helpful accessory to the extent that it cuts the number of times you have to add fresh litter to the unit by a factor of four or five. That said, it requires about as much effort to keep the hopper filled as it does to keep the Litter-Robot itself filled. The hopper adds litter to the working litter supply as it drops from cycling clumped litter into the waste tray. I generally topped up the litter when I emptied the waste tray before I got the hopper. Actually, I still do this from time to time as the hopper doesn't keep the unit as full as I normally like. It keeps it at about 2/3rds capacity. The cats seem to prefer it to be a bit deeper than that, and I don't see a way to adjust the level settings to accomplish that with the hopper. Also, the Hopper activity log fills from the top down; so you have to scroll the list to get to the most current activity. Logically this should be filled in with the newest activity at the top of the log - as is the case with all of the other system an
I put off buying one of these because I watched the video of the installation and it seemed more involved than I was willing to do. But eventually I got tired of refilling the Litter Robot myself, so I caved and bought a hopper. It's actually not as bad to install as I thought it would be, took me about 15 minutes. For me the hardest part was figuring out I needed to manually add the hopper in the add in order for it to function. But now that I have it, I love it! My cat has definitely been happier since I've bought this whole setup for her.
I love the idea but it doesn’t add enough litter. It’s constantly too low which makes more of a mess. I bought 2 hoppers but don’t really use them . I end up adding litter everyday