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Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet OOMWOO (makerspet.com)
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[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looking for ways to keep my old one running as long as possible. it's that roboroc xiaomi platform and it has been supper easy to get spare parts. I replaced entire wheel sections batteries and such.

There is a software that replaces the Xiaomi app and that would be the next project.

No need to phone home to china all the time.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What software?

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think this one

https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/supported-robots/

Needs a custom firmware installed. But then I am free to use it even if the official app no longer exists.

[–] practisevoodoo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can confirm it works and is great. I'm even running a Glados voice pack on it that insults me while it cleans.

Only issue I've had the whole time was actually this week when I finally updated the valetudo re version to support the new home assistant MQTT format and the update got stuck but that was an easy fix once I worked out what it was.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can it say ouch when you kick it or say let me down when you pick it up?

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

I did try the 'ouch' feature and that was fun for all of 10 minutes and then it moved very quickly into annoying so that feature got disabled.

https://arner.github.io/posts/#make-glados-clean-your-floor

[–] cenariodantesco@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is it. I've done it last month, and besides having all the control of my s7, I swear that the robot is faster??!