Home-Assistant-custom-components-Xiaomi-Cloud-Map-Extractor VS bumper

In case you mean adding to HA: check if u can add it over the Xiaomi Miio integration and then use the xiaomi vacuum map extractor and card (both repos say the S5 is supported). I then defined zones and call the commands in a script which I expose to Google Assistant as a scene called 'clean the bathroom' for instance.

There's a Xiaomi Cloud Map Extractor integration for Home Assistant, not a mod as much as a spoof maybe: that gives you the maps as you see it them the Roborock or Mi apps, and are stored on the vacuum,. I think that's it-- storing the map as a bitmap is efficient storage- and compute-wise. Screen grabbing from the app would give the same thing, I wonder what its real resolution is. Also I would guess the map is used mostly as a guide for overall positioning, and that the real LIDAR work is done while running to solve its position on the map as a 3DOF problem, and that data just churns.

Mine is done through an older method but I believe this one can do it for roborock: https://github.com/PiotrMachowski/Home-Assistant-custom-components-Xiaomi-Cloud-Map-Extractor

I'm using Valetudo on my Dreame but it doesn't support Ecovacs. A quick Google search revealed this however, so if you're technically inclined you might want to try it out.

Main concern with wifi/app based devices are about sharing data with manufacturer servers. I have tumbled upon one app/service Bumper which claim that it can be used as local server for Ecovacs devices using MQTT. I didn't find much information online and looking for some feedback whether anyone here managed to install local server for these kind of devices.

Check the documentation for bumper an open source, self hosted implementation of the Ecovacs server. One of the steps for setting bumper up is using pihole to change response for DNS lookups for the Ecovacs servers with the address of the bumper server. There should be enough info in there to make a block list. I'm not sure that the X1 is supported by bumper, but maybe worth a try.

There are a couple of these. Here's one for ECOVACS:

https://github.com/bmartin5692/bumper

Wonder to be able to disentangle these devices from invasive phone apps.

I also saw this recently which allows you to use the ecovacs app, but run the server locally: https://github.com/bmartin5692/bumper

There is a standalone locally hosted open source version https://github.com/bmartin5692/bumper

UPDATE: someone did!!!! See: - https://github.com/torbjornaxelsson/bumper - https://github.com/bmartin5692/bumper - https://github.com/mrbungle64/ecovacs-deebot.js