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The smart vacuum cleaner was remotely bricked for not collecting data.

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[–] pipi1234@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In case you have a robot vacuum and want to run it cloudless you can check Valetudo.

It's been running my vacuum the last 4 years and I couldn't find any downsides (There are several extra functions if you like to tinker around with home assistant and the likes)

If you have any doubts or need assistance with installing it, I would be happy to give you a hand :-)

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unfortunately this doesn't support Roomba.

I am running my Roomba fully offline via HomeAssistant now. I can't access the cleaning maps, but the rest works well (granted, all it could ever do is "start" and "return home" in the first place).

Funnily enough, the robot is continually panicking about the time now, it literally pings an NTP server every 10s (which is blocked by my router)

[–] pipi1234@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Fuck Roombas! I returned mine after 3 days due to several very painful knocks on my feet. Those fuckers are feet killers!

[–] besmtt@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Absolutely love Valetudo! I just got some stickers to put on mine.