dorita980 VS Roomba980-Python

I installed this tool via npm on my MacBook.

This is for example a library to send commands to your roomba https://github.com/koalazak/dorita980

Please share here instead, others like me are also interested and actively https://github.com/koalazak/dorita980/issues/163 looking for solutions.

I'm aware of https://github.com/koalazak/dorita980 that I used in the past. I believe that should allow me to skip the app entirely. That might be sufficient to avoid for the device to "phone home" but I'm not sure. I could use WireShark to check and eventually use e.g a PiHole to filter this kind of requests. Ideally I'd flash my (relatively) old model with an open firmware but I'm not sure that exists.

I think I just found the problem, I looked for it before but somehow missed it (prob because I didn't know on came from Mqtt at the time). I think your firmware is version 1.x or whatever, which uses a different definition for Local. It doesn't include the MqttClient. The docs for that are here so try that and see if it works

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.