Roomba980-Python VS ha-rest980-roomba

What Roomba do you have? I ask because I am the author of Roomba980-Python, and the latest firmwares for current Roombas (i, s and j series) have removed the tracking ability (and changed the way that the password has to be retrieved).

I’ll need to set up an api WEB Server following this guide - Roomba980-Python

In order to achieve this you must set up an api WEB server by following this guide https://github.com/NickWaterton/Roomba980-Python

There are third party libraries that show real time maps like this Still trying to get it to work with the j7 (I don’t have a j7).

The Roomba robots can be controlled locally (block the Internet access via VLAN or firewall rules). You need to host the smarts yourself or use something like Home Assistant.

“Home Assistant” is an open source home automation system, it uses my Roomba980 plug in.

Here https://github.com/NickWaterton/Roomba980-Python

There are a bunch of libraries out there for doing this, I wrote a Python one (used in HA) https://github.com/NickWaterton/Roomba980-Python

Sort of. If you issue the command “locate” via https://github.com/NickWaterton/Roomba980-Python (dorita980 probably works as well) then the Roomba beeps for about 1 minute - even when docked.

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.