Valetudo VS openScale

If you really want zero network theres always Valetudo, https://valetudo.cloud/

But most of the vacuums want internet access for setup, but then work completely fine being blocked from the internet after.

FYI there is https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo which acts as a replacement of the cloud service. I'd you buy one of the supported devices you root it to point to the Valetudo server (which you run yourselves). You can then put the robot on its own WiFi without Internet access if you want to be even more secure.

I'll be the one to plug Valetudo in this thread I guess. Primitively, it replaces the cloud functionality on-device for robot vacuums (see supported models) and replaces it with local services that run offline and can connect to Home Assistant easily.

I will never buy another robot vacuum without Valetudo support as long as that project lives. It's great.

https://valetudo.cloud/

As a consumer and homeowner I try my hardest to buy "smart" things that only have local control, especially for important systems like power and HVAC. Our standby generator has a manufacturer supplied wifi pod that I never set up. Instead I use an RS485-to-USB dongle and monitor it myself with open source software. Our HVAC is the same to the greatest extent possible. When shopping for a new robot vacuum Valetudo[1] compatibility is an overriding concern.

If/when we have solar installed it will not be connected to the manufacturer or distributor's cloud systems.

[1]: https://valetudo.cloud

I have a roborock that I have taken apart a little bit and I thought it looked extremely similar to the article's Roomba from underneath.

Obligatory mention for every robot vacuum article: https://valetudo.cloud/

There are local-only robot vacuum options: https://valetudo.cloud/

But you shouldn't ask yourself why it isn't possible. The question is why it's not successful, or why there's no demand. America is satisfied by foreign alternatives. We don't want secure devices, we want cheap and simple devices that come in pretty boxes with the labels we like. Roomba wins because it caters to the lowest-common-denominator, the basest American that most shoppers embody.

And America doesn't care. You won't see a law demanding software transparency or firmware alternatives for domestic robots. We won't assemble them locally because our labor is too expensive, we won't manufacture the chips domestically because it's cheaper to import them. You won't see people owning USA-made Roombas for the same reason you don't meet people using a Purism phone instead of a Samsung/Apple handset; the market has spoken, and they are absolutely apathetic to anything but price.

Perhaps contact somebody from the Valetudo community with your problem:

https://valetudo.cloud/

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/

Maybe it can be solved with a simple firmware patch.

https://valetudo.cloud is a project which allows you to use many vacuums without connecting to the cloud.

If so, I would suggest a integration or a way to import data from OpenScale https://github.com/oliexdev/openScale

https://github.com/oliexdev/openScale I track my weight with this. It has a bunch of other features I have never used.

openScale (version 2.5.1): Weight and body metrics tracker, with support for Bluetooth scales

You could get a scale that works with OpenScale, and run that in a container on your network. Not sure if that'd work for your needs. https://github.com/oliexdev/openScale

It's an unfortunate future and I fear that the cat is out of the rucksack. If you're looking for local only robot vaccum there's still https://valetudo.cloud/, similar to gadgetbridge for fitness bands, openscale bluetooth scales and home assistant/homebridge for IoT devices.

I actually found an open source app on GitHub here (it's on Google Play too), purporting to support many Bluetooth scales, as well as having it's own functionality to read/interpret the scales with a nice GUI.

I would check out the openScale git. You'll have to dive into some Bluetooth sdks to bypass manufacturer APIs. https://github.com/oliexdev/openScale

There are openscale and workout time, both on fdroid if you want. I started using ~normally open scale yesterday. Looks nicee.😅