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Valetudo: Free your vacuum from the cloud
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This seems like a brilliant solution to a problem that shouldn't exist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@spiritedpause @privacy
> This page contains a general overview of vacuum robot rooting.

what a time to be alive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This page contains a general overview of vacuum robot rooting.

what a time to be alive.

It's funnier in the original Australian.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

@corsicanguppy the port's too loose for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does rooting no longer require specialized hardware?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You mean the breakout board? You can root with a breadboard but the breakout board is strongly recommended and there are lots of people ready to send you a kit or lend you their board.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There were not ~~lots~~ any in the US willing to send when I tried a few months ago and picked up a dreame

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dennis Giese (one of the two people working on Valetudo) is sending PCBs in the US. He even created a form to request a kit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJEdx74kYoQfTt73coFNPp86pZ4a4o8M-sN8EsV0jvBQvQqg/viewform

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Well shit. Now that I know about this, I find out my model is permanently unsupported. Thanks for the info.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This page contains a general overview of vacuum robot rooting.

what a time to be alive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Without Valetudo I wouldn't have considered buying a robot vacuum in the first place.

The software is mature and the community is available to help new users root their robots. Just do not expect it to work with random robots (stick to supported robots) nor for every feature to be supported.

I strongly advice everyone to read the documentation thoroughly (especially Why not Valetudo and [FAQ] (https://valetudo.cloud/pages/faq.html)) before getting involved.