As my Hunter friends can readily attest, keeping a wild pet can be a full-time job. Why, just feeding the critter when he gets hungry can throw off your routine -- you've got to rummage around in your bags, find a piece of food, make sure it's appropriate for his diet, and check your aim before tossing it to him (lest you accidentally destroy a tasty morsel). So inconvenient! Not to mention potentially dangerous... you don't want to spend so long digging through your bags that you or your pet become someone else's snack.
Never fear, Gazmik Fizzwidget is here with a new gadget to automate all your pet-food-management tasks! My incredible Feed-O-Matic features state-of-the-art nutritional analyzers to make sure your pet's hunger is satisfied with a minimum of fuss, advanced selective logic to make your pet doesn't eat anything you have another use for, and a weight optimizer to make sure the food in your bags stays well organized! You can have it automatically feed your pet when needed -- or, if you're worried about running out of food while you take a nap, you can opt to manually press the "Feed Now" button and it'll intelligently choose a food and accurately toss it to your pet. This is actually one of the first gizmos I started work on... but because I'm a perfectionist I haven't considered it ready for release until now.
Features
Makes feeding your pet quick, easy, and fun:
Automatic feeding: Feeds your pet whenever his happiness falls below a certain level ("content" by default), automatically choosing an appropriate food.
Manual feeding: Bind a key to "Feed Pet", and Feed-O-Matic will automatically choose an appropriate food and give it to the pet whenever you press it.
Can use an emote to notify you when it's feeding your pet, with custom randomized messages. See FeedOMatic_Emotes.lua to customize them to your characters!
Helps you manage all the pet food in your inventory:
Keeps track of which foods your pet likes more, and prioritizes "better" foods when choosing what to feed the pet. Also remembers what foods your pet has "outgrown", and doesn't choose them in the future (unless you've switched to a pet who might have different tastes).
If you're on a quest to collect several of a certain item which also happens to be something your pet likes to eat, Feed-O-Matic can avoid consuming it. (Unless you're carrying more than is needed for the quest or there's nothing else for your pet to eat.) Type `/feedomatic savequest on` to enable this feature.
Feed-O-Matic can keep track of what foods are used by the Cooking recipes you know and avoid choosing food you'd rather cook. To enable this feature, type `/feedomatic saveforcook` followed by the difficulty color you want to save ingredients for. (For example, `/feedomatic saveforcook orange` will cause Feed-O-Matic to avoid choosing food items you're guaranteed to get a skillup from cooking; foods used in lower-level recipes won't be given special attention.)
If you'd prefer to save the better food (that is, those which provide a "well fed" bonus or other effect when eaten) for yourself, Feed-O-Matic can also avoid it when looking for pet food.
All other things being equal, Feed-O-Matic will try to pick foods from smaller stacks, making sure your food supply doesn't take up all your bag space. When your bags get close to full, Feed-O-Matic will start ignoring other criteria and always choosing the smallest stack so that you won't run out of inventory sooner.
Change Log - Fizzwidget Feed-O-Matic
v. 3.0.4 - 2008/10/24
- Includes an update to the PeriodicTable library, fixing an issue in which older versions of the library's datasets would override newer versions... which could cause FOM to ignore certain foods.
v. 3.0.3 - 2008/10/18
- Includes an update to the PeriodicTable library and its food lists:
- Fixes subcategory/supercategory linkage issues that caused FOM to ignore certain foods (such as Conjured Mana Biscuit and Naaru Ration).
- Includes all (currently known to Wowhead) new foods from Wrath of the Lich King content.
- Reorganized the Food Preferences panel slightly to account for Wrath of the Lich King foods having more possible cooking products. (Don't like mammoth? Try cooking it differently!)
- Fixed an error that could occur when FOM chooses the next food to use.
- Fixed an issue where FOM wouldn't choose a food (and thus feeding would be unavailable) after reloading the UI.
- Fixed an issue where category headers would inconsistently appear grayed out in the Food Preferences list.
- Items that aren't in the PeriodicTable categories corresponding to the six possible pet diets (i.e. not edible by pets) will no longer show in the Food Preferences list.
- Added more random feeding emotes thanks to the commenters at maniasarcania.com. Feeding emotes can now be made specific to categories of foods (specified by PeriodicTable sets).
v. 3.0.2 - 2008/10/15
- Fixed an bug causing us to ignore diets beyond the first for pets with multiple diets.
- Fixed an error when attempting to play pet hungry sounds.
- Added French random emotes by Laumac from WoWInterface.com.
v. 3.0.1 - 2008/10/14
- Fixed a bug where clicking foods in the new Food Preferences panel (see 3.0 release notes below) wouldn't show them as excluded/unchecked.
- When a category is excluded/unchecked in said panel, the foods within it appear grayed out.
v. 3.0 - 2008/10/14
- Updated for compatibility with WoW Patch 3.0 and Wrath of the Lich King.
- Rebuilt FOM's system for choosing foods to feed your pet:
- Our database of valid pet foods now comes from the PeriodicTable library.
- Priority order for choosing foods is based (in part) on PeriodicTable sets (conjured, basic, or bonus foods, etc.)
- There's now a Food Preferences sub-panel under GFW Feed-O-Matic in the Interface Options window.
- In it, all valid pet foods your WoW client has seen are listed by category.
- The order of categories and foods in the list reflects the priority order for choosing foods: those nearer the top of the list will be picked before those below.
- Individual foods can be unchecked in the list to prevent FOM from feeding them to your pet.
- Entire categories can also be unchecked, which will prevent FOM from using any food of that category (even ones you haven't seen yet). By default, only the "Well Fed" foods are disabled, so be sure to visit the list if you want to exclude other foods.
- The list can be filtered to show only relevant foods for your pet (or for a pet of about your level, if you don't have a pet summoned at the moment) or only foods you're currently carrying.
- If a food can be cooked, the list shows information about each of the the Cooking recipe(s) that use it: whether you know the recipe, its difficulty (i.e. orange, yellow, green or gray in the Cooking window), and the food produced.
- This list replaces the "avoid bonus foods" and "avoid cooking foods" options in previous releases.
- The "keep bag space open" option from previous releases has been removed: given multiple stacks of the same food, FOM will now always consume the smaller stack first so as to free up bag space more quickly.
- Fixed several issues which caused the "Avoid foods needed for quests" option to fail.
- Added numerous random feeding emotes -- thanks to Mania and the creative commenters at http://maniasarcania.com!
- Locale issues:
- The random text added to feeding emotes (e.g. "Yum!", "Good boy!", etc) is now localizable. See the FeedOMatic_Emotes.lua file for details. (Thanks Virshan for a few Spanish.)
- Added Korean localization by Boddalhee of Deathwing (KR).
- Added Spanish localization by Javier Melo.
- Added basic locale support for Russian, and updated basic locale support for French and German, based on Wowhead's multilingual database. (That is, enough translations for all features to work the same as in English, but no localized UI text.)
- Translations are missing for the new and renamed beast families (in WoW 3.0 / WotLK), so the family-specific hungry sounds don't currently work in locales other than English.
Optional Files - Fizzwidget Feed-O-Matic
Sorry, there are currently no optional files available.
The below error is still occurring every single session (sometimes twice per session) with the Hunter with v3.0.4 in WoW 3.0.3 (new patch). Have tried embedding the updated LibPeriodicTable library instead of having it standalone, no difference.
Have disabled it now & switched to FeedIt, which works properly with no errors. It also uses LibPeriodicTable food lists.
Look forward to seeing Feed-O-Matic fixed; its additional features are terrific.
Originally posted by Laibeus Lord Bug Report:
...t\Libs\LibPeriodicTable-3.1\LibPeriodicTable-3.1.lua:345: Invalid arg1: item must be a number or item link
[C]: ?
[C]: ?
...t\Libs\LibPeriodicTable-3.1\LibPeriodicTable-3.1.lua:345: in function `ItemSearch'
Interface\AddOns\GFW_FeedOMatic\FeedOMatic.lua:743: in function `FOM_RandomEmote'
Interface\AddOns\GFW_FeedOMatic\FeedOMatic.lua:355: in function `FOM_OnEvent'
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>
This happens when feeding the Pet with a new WotLK food (3.0.2) = Salted Venison - meat. Also, the food is not listed as a diet of the Silithid Pet Family but the Silithid eats it.
Identical error here the first time feeding in a session with a mid-level hunter. Happens whether using a keybind or feeding manually using the Blizzard "Feed Pet" icon. The difference from the above person: happens when feeding an old school pet (Turtle) with either of two old school foods (Filet of Redgill or Spotted Yellowtail). Error recorded with the BugSack/BugGrabber mods:
LibPeriodicTable-3.1-90006:345: Invalid arg1: item must be a number or item link\nLibPeriodicTable-3.1-90006:345: in function `ItemSearch'\nGFW_FeedOMatic-3.0.4\\FeedOMatic.lua:743: in function `FOM_RandomEmote'\nGFW_FeedOMatic-3.0.4\\FeedOMatic.lua:355: in function `FOM_OnEvent'\n<string>:\"*:OnEvent\":1: in function <[string \"*:OnEvent\"]:1>
Happens once during a session. Pre-WoW 3.x, never had this error occur.
Originally posted by Psychokitty didnt blizz make it impossible to auto feed your pet? dont you have to hit a key now?
As far as I can remember, Feed-O-Matic has been like that since 2.0.1 TBC Pre-Patched Yes, you need to press hotkey since that patch.
Feed-O-Matic is like that, press a hotkey, voila, the add-on chooses the food by itself based on your settings (and of course the Pet diet). No need to click 'Feed' then open Bag.
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Bug Report:
...t\Libs\LibPeriodicTable-3.1\LibPeriodicTable-3.1.lua:345: Invalid arg1: item must be a number or item link
[C]: ?
[C]: ?
...t\Libs\LibPeriodicTable-3.1\LibPeriodicTable-3.1.lua:345: in function `ItemSearch'
Interface\AddOns\GFW_FeedOMatic\FeedOMatic.lua:743: in function `FOM_RandomEmote'
Interface\AddOns\GFW_FeedOMatic\FeedOMatic.lua:355: in function `FOM_OnEvent'
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>
This happens when feeding the Pet with a new WotLK food (3.0.2) = Salted Venison - meat. Also, the food is not listed as a diet of the Silithid Pet Family but the Silithid eats it.
Additionally, I encountered a 'Meat' that the Silithid does not want to eat, I have to find that meat again, forgot to list it down.
"Lamhirh, I desire,
more than the flowers blooming on my homeland,
more than the wind blowing through my homeland,
more than the stars shining upon my homeland,
is the sound of your voice...."
- Jint Lynn.
Interface\AddOns\GFW_FeedOMatic\FeedOMatic.lua:770: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'level' (a nil value)
[C]: ?
Interface\AddOns\GFW_FeedOMatic\FeedOMatic.lua:770: in function `FOM_FlatFoodList'
Interface\AddOns\GFW_FeedOMatic\FeedOMatic.lua:786: in function `FOM_NewFindFood'
Interface\AddOns\GFW_FeedOMatic\FeedOMatic.lua:675: in function `FOM_PickFoodForButton'
Interface\AddOns\GFW_FeedOMatic\FeedOMatic.lua:325: in function `FOM_OnEvent'
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>
"Lamhirh, I desire,
more than the flowers blooming on my homeland,
more than the wind blowing through my homeland,
more than the stars shining upon my homeland,
is the sound of your voice...."
- Jint Lynn.
"Lamhirh, I desire,
more than the flowers blooming on my homeland,
more than the wind blowing through my homeland,
more than the stars shining upon my homeland,
is the sound of your voice...."
- Jint Lynn.
As far as I've been able to tell, the "blocked action" error is a WoW bug introduced with 2.4.3. (And it only happens the first time you try to feed with a macro... subsequent feeding works fine.) Seems to be fixed in Patch 3.0.2, though.
Originally posted by Thorlin /click FOM_FeedButton now pops up the addon blocked error since the new patch. Any workaround? I just click ignore and it still works but it's getting kind of annoying.
/click FOM_FeedButton now pops up the addon blocked error since the new patch. Any workaround? I just click ignore and it still works but it's getting kind of annoying.
A pop-up button (ala King of the Jungle) would be nice, for those of us who do not use the default UI and have no pet happiness icon to click. I use Pitbull unit frames and it will display the happiness icon, but it is not using the same code as Blizzard's and therefore is unclickable
This addon looks quite useful, and indeed works from within a macro. However, I am unable to access any of the options described in the addon description, and get the following errors when trying to do so.
When opening the Blizzard option window and clicking on the Feed-O-Matic entry:
Code:
FeedOMatic-2.4.1\GFWOptions\GFWOptions.lua:196: attempt to index local 'addonObj' (a nil value)
FeedOMatic-2.4.1\FeedOMatic.lua:1291: in function `BuildUI'
FeedOMatic-2.4.1\GFWOptions\GFWOptions.lua:74: in function <...nterface\AddOns\FeedOMatic\GFWOptions\GFWOptions.lua:71>
<in C code>: in function `Show'
Interface\FrameXML\UIOptionsFrame.lua:153: in function `InterfaceOptionsFrame_Show':
Interface\FrameXML\UIOptionsFrame.lua:231: in function `InterfaceOptionsFrame_OpenToFrame':
FeedOMatic-2.4.1\FeedOMatic.lua:1382: in function `FOM_ShowOptions'
FeedOMatic-2.4.1\FeedOMatic.lua:477: in function `FOM_ChatCommandHandler'
FeedOMatic-2.4.1\FeedOMatic.lua:131: in function `?'
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:3050: in function `ChatEdit_ParseText':
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2770: in function `ChatEdit_SendText':
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2791: in function `ChatEdit_OnEnterPressed':
<string>:"*:OnEnterPressed":1: in function <[string "*:OnEnterPressed"]:1>
When typing "/fom" or "/feed" followed by any command:
Code:
[2008/07/15 18:28:37-1165-x1]: FeedOMatic-2.4.1\FeedOMatic.lua:492: attempt to concatenate local 'version' (a nil value)
FeedOMatic-2.4.1\FeedOMatic.lua:131: in function `?'
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:3050: in function `ChatEdit_ParseText':
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2770: in function `ChatEdit_SendText':
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2791: in function `ChatEdit_OnEnterPressed':
<string>:"*:OnEnterPressed":1: in function <[string "*:OnEnterPressed"]:1>
Also, most troubling, if I try to feed my pet using Feed-O-Matic directly after reviving her, I get an "addon action blocked" error:
Code:
[2008/07/15 18:31:07-1165-x1]: <event>ADDON_ACTION_BLOCKED:AddOn 'FeedOMatic' tried to call the protected function 'CastSpellByName()'.
<in C code>: in function `CastSpellByName'
Interface\FrameXML\SecureTemplates.lua:276: in function `SecureActionButton_OnClick':
<string>:"*:OnClick":1: in function <[string "*:OnClick"]:1>
<in C code>: in function `Click'
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:1196: in function `?':
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:3032: in function `ChatEdit_ParseText':
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2770: in function `ChatEdit_SendText':
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:1921: in function <Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:1914>:
<in C code>: in function `RunMacro'
Interface\FrameXML\SecureTemplates.lua:304: in function `SecureActionButton_OnClick':
<string>:"*:OnClick":1: in function <[string "*:OnClick"]:1>
(tail call): ?:
<in C code>: in function `securecall'
Interface\FrameXML\SecureStateHeader.lua:1052: in function <Interface\FrameXML\SecureStateHeader.lua:1033>:
I will repost these in the Bug Report tracker as well.
Getting the same error as some of the other users.
I recently changed my favorite pet to a Wind serpent, the big idea in this, besides the really nice damage it does, is that I can feed it Conjured Mana Biscuet, free food.
But if im trying to use feed-o-matic, it tells me that my pet can't eat the food, and i can press Alt and force use of it. Since im not using the standart interface, this doesn't work.
I've tried to remove Conjured Mana Biscuet from the diet list, and adding it again, but it makes no diffrence.
I've tried the /fom reset command but it only gives me this error:
Am I understanding this mod correctly? Is it supposed to feed the pet automatically?
Also, how does it hook into the smiley face near the pet bar? I have X-Perl and cannot click on the face, like I used to be able to, for it to feed my pet.
Re: a question
Yes, you need to press hotkey since that patch.
