Ahh. To my knowledge, iRobot units aren’t rootable, and are therefore unsupported by Valetudo.

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

My Wyze is based on an ODM unit, the 3irobotix CRL-200S. Companies like Wyze, Xiaomi, Viomi, iLife, Conga, and other brands customize and sell it as their own models since that’s cheaper than manufacturing their own units. Parts are swappable between them as they are all the same robot underneath… Kinda like how car companies rebrand models based on region. As far as I’m aware though, iRobot builds their own robots.

What?

I had to replace the motherboard with one from a different variant (same base robot) that could be rooted. Outside of that - super easy.

Idk, the dev seems… hostile.

I’ve only ever seen a dev become “hostile” when people simply don’t read the documentation and ask the same questions over and over and over again.

If it’s a CRL-200S based robot, the manufacturer will straight up brick it within a few days.

Lidar is fucking awesome. My vacuum will damn near chase me out of wherever it’s cleaning 😂

Dumb shit like this is never the engineer’s idea.

I bought a robot vacuum, rooted it, and installed Valetudo (Wyze WVCR200S w/motherboard from a Viomi V6 - same robot).

I don’t have to worry about this shit anymore. The vacuum still does the vacuum thing whether or not it’s connected to the internet.

https://github.com/sysadminsmedia/homebox

Shareholders need more profits. So, shareholders.

Once again - blame the Dodge brothers (yes, that Dodge).

Oh noooooo hahahaha

The previous owner of mine was absolutely a pet owner. It was chock full of fur. Luckily nobody in my house has any pet allergies…

If you can manage to get video out, I’m sure it can be done. Maybe you can even stream Doom to a web browser.

Yeah, that’s a rough one. Manufacturers really don’t want us mucking about and will release different versions under the same name all to obfuscate that process.

A lot of TVs are like this as well; we have a curved Samsung 55" that lost it’s backlight last year - not only did I need the model and serial numbers, I also needed the specific T-con board revision. A similar thing happened on my former TCL Roku TV several years before. Same deal.

Worth it IMO. These things get hella filthy inside. I took mine apart to replace its motherboard, and I’m glad I did because it needed a good cleaning.

Responded with the wrong account… I try not to have any crossover between my accounts, but here we are…

Anyway.

Do the newer models require you to connect to wifi?

Probably. I only have the two robots: the aforementioned Wyze, and a cheap Eufy Robovac 25C

Valetudo looks interesting tho.

It’s really quite fascinating. Valetudo is not a 3rd party firmware - it’s a cloud replacement that’s hosted on the robot itself, and also runs a webserver which gives you access to the actual controls and relevant firmware options.

Self-hosting doesn’t always mean exposing things to the internet. It just means you have a PC capable of running software/services that can be accessed over your network. Whether or not you choose to expose that to the internet is up to you.

Everybody knows Debian is actually Gentoo.

Probably any ISP that advertises “super duper extra special wifi” when it’s just a set of QoS rules.

In their EU store, Fairphone already sells degoogled Fairphones with /e/OS next to their regular Fairphones with Google.

Is this what you mean with

from the factory

?

Exactly what I mean. With Fairphone bringing the brand to the US, I’m hoping that option carries over.

I’m aware. It’s why I said this:

from the factory.

I would do it anyway, but a degoogled ROM with factory support would be nice.