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Valetudo: Free your vacuum from the cloud
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[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[–] noodlejetski@masto.ai 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

what a time to be alive.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] noodlejetski@masto.ai 1 points 1 year ago

@corsicanguppy the port's too loose for me.

[–] Baahb@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does rooting no longer require specialized hardware?

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] Baahb@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 2 points 1 year 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

[–] Baahb@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

This page contains a general overview of vacuum robot rooting.

what a time to be alive.