valetudo VS lovelace-xiaomi-vacuum-map-card

i know it’s not for most people, but you can potentially install a custom firmware on your xiaomi/roborock vacuums that prevent them from calling home (amongst other new features). It’s called Valetudo RE

Regarding the robot vacuum you can have the best of both worlds if you get a compatible device and flash an open-source firmware, like Valetudo [1]. You can operate the device by pressing a button, and you can configure it from a locally-hosted webapp (it doesn't need internet access).

[1] https://github.com/rand256/valetudo

It's a feature of Valetudo RE (https://github.com/rand256/valetudo). You create your own bot on telegram and enter the API credentials into the Valetudo web interface running on the robot.

For example https://github.com/rand256/valetudo sends both map with coordinates and wi-fi signal strength for it's own wi-fi adapter.

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