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.
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.
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.
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
https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/buying-supported-robots.html
Looks like roborock is a favorite. I’ll have to look into them.
Roomba uses local push in HA.
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.
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.
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!
I’ve heard nothing but great things about Roborock.