Hi everyone!
I currently have a Neato D7 with a broken brush motor. It’s 3 years old, so no more warranty.
Given that Neato is shutting down, I want to buy a new vacuum altogether.
Here’s my wishlist:
- Home Assistant integration (duh)
- Vacuum + mopping
- Local control would be cherry on top
- LIDAR navigation (we run it mostly during the night)
- Easy to service & reliable (should be easy to service the robot and buy replacement parts)
Any suggestions / recommendations?
Piggybacking your post a bit: Does anyone know a autonomous vacuum that does not rely on a cloud and directly integrates with home assistant only?
I would install valetudo which cuts all communication with the cloud and allows full local control
I’d be curious about one, as well, considering the AWS outage the other day which prevented me from using my Roomba.
I hacked my old Roomba to do this by hardwiring an ESP8266 to its serial port. I control it directly through MQTT, though in hindsight using ESPHome would have been simpler. That was a fun project!
That sounds very nice! Do you by chance have any documantaion that you could/would share?
Sure do! I loosely followed this guide, but ended up rolling my own code: https://www.thesmarthomehookup.com/upgrade-your-old-roomba-to-a-smart-botvac-for-5/