Amazon terminates iRobot deal, Roomba maker to lay off 31% of staff
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Amazon terminates iRobot deal, Roomba maker to lay off 31% of staff::Amazon and iRobot said regulatory concerns made it impossible for the deal to move forward, sending the Roomba makers' shares plummeting.
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Save yourself the headache and get something that works locally and doesn’t rely on their cloud and app.
True story. I hate all those cloud devices, which can run perfectly locally. And doesn't require a subscription. I even see it back in cars nowadays, stupid subscriptions.
What options are there out of the box? I only know of hacking well known brands and use something like valetudo
I put a wemos d1 mini in mine since all I need to do is mash the existing Clean button. The internal MCU runs on 3.3v, the buttons are pulled low and activated by the same 3.3v rail, so all I had to do was flash it with ESPhome and wire the low side of the buttons to a gpio. I wanted to read the LED state but the multiplex scheme wasn't worth decoding. I did use the single analog pin to measure battery voltage, and an input for the roller and blower motors.
Well done. I can't tell if you're shitposting or if this is legitimately the simplest home automation setup.
https://i.postimg.cc/BnsdHL8x/Screenshot-20240129-171247.png
https://i.postimg.cc/1tHgRNNJ/Screenshot-20240129-171945.png
I live my life like it's a shitpost
Bro’s a menace to robot vacuum companies
That's actually really awesome. Makes me want to get another vacuum
I used Shark Ion RV750 and RV750N. Basically no parts cross over but the layout is very similar. Both were straightforward to interface with and even had a little slot the board fit in!
Ah nice, so they work completely without internet? I somehow assumed they will need internet for first setup
I bought them used, so I don't know about initial setup if you bought a brand new one. But yeah the shark isn't even on my wifi, just the esphome.
I’ve heard nothing but great things about Roborock.
I have one and it works well. Vacuum and moping in one machine that costs a lot less than the irobot equivalent. You can also load it with Valetudo (open source robot vacuum firmware)
https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo
Roomba uses local push in HA.
I didn’t realize that so I just went to check on mine and the integration is errored out lol. A quick look on the forums shows that multiple people are having the same issue. When mine was working, I only had a few options like start and go home so it wasn’t that helpful anyways. The roomba app did update with room mapping abilities but I was never able to get that information into home assistant so my only option was a full clean. Maybe it’s changed since mine stopped working but I can’t wait to get something that’s better supported and put this one upstairs where it only has a few rooms to clean.
Reasonably sure i can set up local control through home assistant. Haven’t looked too hard but I’ve always liked the featuresets on the roombas and the Amazon connection was the reason I haven’t done too much investigation yet.
https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/buying-supported-robots.html
Looks like roborock is a favorite. I’ll have to look into them.