Home-Assistant-custom-components-Xiaomi-Cloud-Map-Extractor VS ha-rest980-roomba

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 use this project to integrate my S9 into Home Assistant as it lets you do room based cleaning via HA. When following those steps, use the “HA Addon” section in each step to keep things simple.

You can also follow this to integrate your Roomba with Home Assistant, along with room based cleaning. The controls are sent to the Roomba over your local WiFi with MQTT.

I used this guide to set it all up. The map overlay that I created could use some work - I traced around a builders floor plan of the house but it doesn't quite line up with what the Roomba sees

To fix the issue use Rest980 and optionally PHP-Nginx with HomeAssistant - create an automation trigger based on the robot state (evacAllowed: false) and update the state to (evacAllowed: true) with some faked Cleanbase data to trick the robot into allowing the Cleanbase to evacuate ("dock":{"known":true,"pn":"4638607","state":301,"fwVer":"4.0.3"}). It's been rock solid for me.