Whisker
litterrobot
The Whisker integration allows you to monitor and control your Wi-Fi-enabled, automatic, self-cleaning litter box and pet feeders. If you have pet profiles set up, you can also track your pet's weight.
In Apple Home through HomeKit Bridge
What HomeKit Bridge makes of each kind of entity this integration creates, read from its source code. A device only gets the ones that apply to it.
| Entity | Shows up as | Note |
|---|---|---|
light | Light | |
switch | Switch or outlet | |
binary_sensor | Sensor (motion, contact, leak, smoke…) | |
vacuum | Vacuum (as a switch) | |
button | Button (as a switch) | |
select | Mode picker (as switches) |
What people report
Whisker Litter-Robot 4 and Feeder-Robot are supported via the cloud; LR5 Pro camera is not, and cloud outages cause startup failures.
- Works2
- Not working1
- Won’t be supported1
| Device | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feeder-Robot | Works Cloud | Sensors, switches, select and snack button addedSaved copyProposed change Add support for Feeder-Robot sensors ## Type of change - [ ] Dependency upgrade - [ ] Bugfix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue) Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | PR #77395 · 2022-08 | |
| Litter-Robot 4 | Works Cloud | Support added; firmware update entity reported flaky onceSaved copyProposed change Bump pylitterbot to 2022.8.0 to add support for Litter-Robot 4 Changelog: https://github.com/natekspencer/pylitterbot/releases/tag/2022.8.0 ## Type of change <!-- What type of change does your PR introduce to Home Assistant? NOTE: Please, check only 1! box! If your PR requires multiple boxes to be checked, you'll most likely need to split it into multiple PRs. This makes things easier and faster to Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | PR #75790 · 2022-07 | |
| Litter-Robot (LR5 cloud) | Not working Cloud | Integration stuck initializing for many users; suspected Whisker backend changeSaved copyThe problem Litter-Robot integration just stopped working after updates ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? core-2025.10.4 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? the one before ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant Core ### Integration causing the issue Litter-Robot ### Link to integration documentation on our website https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/litterrobot ### Diagnostics information Logger: homeassistant.components.litterrobot.coordinator Source: helpers/update_coordinator.py:331 integration: Litter-Robot … Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | Issue #155825 · 2025-11 | |
| Litter-Robot 5 Pro camera | Won’t be supported Cloud | Camera access not supported; PR to add it closedSaved copyLimitations: Access to cameras on Litter-Robot 5 Pro models. Configuring sleep schedules on Litter-Robot 4 and newer models. Certain device settings, including renaming devices, filter replacement resets, and cycle count resets. Reassigning pet visits. Excerpt saved from home-assistant.io on 2026-10-23. | Docs |
Gathered from GitHub issues, pull requests, discussions and docs, and from r/homeassistant. These are individual reports, so check the linked thread and the date before you buy.
How it connects
Cloud push
Goes through the maker’s cloud, which sends updates as they happen. Needs the internet and an account.
Found automatically over
- DHCP
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 4,784 (0.68%) |
|---|---|
| Quality scale | Platinum |
| Added in | Home Assistant 2021.3 |
| Set up in the UI | Yes |
| Maintainers | @natekspencer, @tkdrob |
Limitations from the docs
- Access to cameras on Litter-Robot 5 Pro models.
- Configuring sleep schedules on Litter-Robot 4 and newer models.
- Certain device settings, including renaming devices, filter replacement resets, and cycle count resets.
- Reassigning pet visits.
In ReReHome
Whatever HomeKit Bridge shares reaches Apple Home as normal HomeKit accessories behind your Home Assistant bridge, so ReReHome shows and controls them like any other.
Bridges get their own settings page listing the accessories behind them.