dustcloud VS bumper

but here's instructions on how to root: https://github.com/dgiese/dustcloud/wiki/VacuumRobots-manual-update-root-Howto

A few of the Xaiomi's and Viomi's are rootable. I have a Gen1 Xaiomi and it's brilliant. I got ssh access to the ubuntu install and installed https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo and run it 100% local via my home-assistant install.

dgiese is a proficient vacuum security researcher and has most of that stuff available here: https://github.com/dgiese/dustcloud

Here you go: https://github.com/dgiese/dustcloud/wiki/Supported-Devices

The very first thing I did on my old Xiaomi Gen1 was to root it with information from this repo https://github.com/dgiese/dustcloud/wiki

It's come a long way since the early days and with valetudo it's really easy and convenient to hook the vacuum up to Home Assistant. It's actually one of the reasons I was recommending Xiaomi vacuum cleaners to friends and family. Unfortunately they have recently changed the firmware password making it impossible to root without using a serial connection.

Never once has my vacuum connected outside my own network. I know many instructions say you need to install the app to root, however that's not true. You could upload using https://github.com/rytilahti/python-miio as long as the vacuum isn't provisioned yet.

Here https://github.com/dgiese/dustcloud/issues/103 somebody claims there'd(or atleast in in non-MAX version) would be ADB listening but that just doesn't make any sense to me, why would anybody mess their simple Linux system with Android in such a way? I haven't seen any other reference that there'd be Android onboard.

Also, hacking and reverse engineering devices is fun, but my goal here is to get a floor cleaning robot that doesn't leak data outside and can be controlled from HA, and I am not really willing to spend too much time in order to get it done. I have no problem in disassembling, soldering, flashing and hacking but I am looking for a reasonably stable, relatively straightforward solution, rather than another thing to add to the ever growing list of stuff I have to actively keep maintaining.

I'm using Valetudo on my Dreame but it doesn't support Ecovacs. A quick Google search revealed this however, so if you're technically inclined you might want to try it out.

Main concern with wifi/app based devices are about sharing data with manufacturer servers. I have tumbled upon one app/service Bumper which claim that it can be used as local server for Ecovacs devices using MQTT. I didn't find much information online and looking for some feedback whether anyone here managed to install local server for these kind of devices.

Check the documentation for bumper an open source, self hosted implementation of the Ecovacs server. One of the steps for setting bumper up is using pihole to change response for DNS lookups for the Ecovacs servers with the address of the bumper server. There should be enough info in there to make a block list. I'm not sure that the X1 is supported by bumper, but maybe worth a try.

There are a couple of these. Here's one for ECOVACS:

https://github.com/bmartin5692/bumper

Wonder to be able to disentangle these devices from invasive phone apps.

I also saw this recently which allows you to use the ecovacs app, but run the server locally: https://github.com/bmartin5692/bumper

There is a standalone locally hosted open source version https://github.com/bmartin5692/bumper

UPDATE: someone did!!!! See: - https://github.com/torbjornaxelsson/bumper - https://github.com/bmartin5692/bumper - https://github.com/mrbungle64/ecovacs-deebot.js