Brian A.
WAGGLE DUMB "SMART" AI BOWL IS A TOTAL JOKE! Defective Out of the Box & Brain-Dead Engineering!
I just received this today and was so excited to use it. What a massive disappointment. Calling this a "Smart AI Bowl" is a complete fraud. It is a useless piece of plastic that flat-out refuses to connect to the Google Play app. The software design is an absolute engineering rat hole mistake. This app defaults to their legacy RV section and completely locks you out of any other product or interface if the bowl isn't connected. Who thinks this is acceptable user design? It is painfully obvious that these veteran engineers built this product in a bubble and never once spoke to actual consumers, and thankfully those engineers will be replaced by AI very soon. When you look for troubleshooting, their "remedies" are a joke. They expect a regular pet owner to log into a home router, find advanced settings, and manually separate 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi bands just because their cheap hardware can't negotiate a modern, unified network name. Who does that?! By not separating them, it actually locks out the device. The instructions state absolutely nothing about separating the router frequencies. Even with bad design, it would help a little bit if it were in the instructions with a HUGE "READ FIRST BEFORE SETUP" ASTERISK. My guess is they realized the incompetent design element and didn't want to show it in the instructions. On top of that, you have to dig into Android system settings to manually force "Allow all the time" permissions just to bypass an unstable setup loop. It is a brain-dead, overcomplicated mess. To make matters worse, their customer service is an absolute circus. I used the online chat and left multiple messages. When someone finally got back to me, they told me they couldn’t help because they aren't part of the product team—they only work on the RV team! They actually had the nerve to ask, "Can we call you back tomorrow?" And the absolute kicker? This fricken company wants to charge me an $8–$10 restocking fee to return a completely defective product that has never worked from minute one! Unbelievable. Buyer beware. This company has zero quality control, zero support, and zero customer respect. DO NOT ORDER ANYTHING FROM THIS COMPANY!
Response from My WaggleJun 10, 2026
Hi Brian, We're sorry to hear about your experience and understand your frustration. This is not the setup experience we aim to provide. Our team would appreciate the opportunity to make things right, review the issues you encountered, and assist with a resolution. Thank you for your feedback - it helps us improve. Kindest regards, The Waggle team



