Valetudo VS lovelace-xiaomi-vacuum-map-card

Obligatory Valetudo reference. Replace the robovac firmware so it doesn't do cloud.

https://valetudo.cloud/

Can't help with the rest unfortunately.

Been meaning to try something like https://valetudo.cloud/ on my iRobot but I haven't checked out how hard it is.

I can repeat that experience but didn't take me quite as long as I had time to walk through it.

However, just this last update, they added support for a new set of vacuums, Midea/Eureka that don't require that PCB.

https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo/releases/tag/2025.12.0

You may want to check if your robot is supported by Valetudo: https://valetudo.cloud/

https://valetudo.cloud is the only one I know about but not sure if the controller in those units would be flashable.

People obviously find them useful. But I will reiterate a sibling comments recommendation, get one that can run Valetudo : https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo

Valetudo. I haven’t had personal experience using it (due to an unsupported model of NAND memory chip), but I’ve heard good words: https://valetudo.cloud/

This user is talking about this story:

https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo/issues/1664

So is this like Valetudo[0] but for mowers? Very cool! I wonder how much overlap / shared code there is between robot vacuums and robot mowers.

[0]: https://valetudo.cloud/

Yeah that’s an issue! But I also found this interesting project: https://valetudo.cloud

It’s a local first solution for robovacs and there are a few popular models!

For me (Roborock) works https://github.com/PiotrMachowski/Lovelace-Xiaomi-Vacuum-Map-card. It should also work for 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.

Currently I'm using stock firmware, rooted. I just came back From Valetudo..it seems pretty stable to me, but it won't work well with the Home Assistant custom integration that I want to use. The area cleanup feature of that integration is the main way I'm using the vacuum (when I command itmanually) and it looks amazing.

If you only use cloud map extractor - its only visual. But if you install this - https://github.com/PiotrMachowski/lovelace-xiaomi-vacuum-map-card You can send commands to vacuum, draw sections etc., and it's using map from above integration. My vacuum drive to kitchen, to empty, every 10 cleanings, then google speaker says something like "Fuck that shit, i'm not cleaning anymore, until my bin is full". But i did it all in nodered, if you like, i will send you flow. I also hava aqara swithes, to controling light, but if i click both two times, vacuum drive to clean that room.

This is a GitHub with some extra info and a map extractor: https://github.com/PiotrMachowski/lovelace-xiaomi-vacuum-map-card