@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agoMatic is a $1,795 robot vacuum for people concerned about privacymaticrobots.comexternal-linkmessage-square107fedilinkarrow-up1188arrow-down124file-text
arrow-up1164arrow-down1external-linkMatic is a $1,795 robot vacuum for people concerned about privacymaticrobots.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square107fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@just_another_personlink15•1 year agoEh. That doesn’t prevent anything if the unit itself still connects to the internet somehow (looking at you, Wyze). You really just need to make sure the unit doesn’t and can’t get online. Very few of those out there.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 year agoThat’s why you flash the vacuum with a custom firmware! https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo
minus-squarefolkravlinkfedilink10•1 year agoFirst two sentences of that readme: Valetudo is a cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation. It is not a custom firmware.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 year agoDoh! My bad. It isn’t custom firmware but it does install software on top of the existing firmware onboard which is pretty slick.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 year agoAnd that is why VLANs are amazing. Can’t phone home if it can’t connect to the internet.
minus-squareNyfurelinkfedilink1•1 year agoUntil it outright refuses to work without its cloud connection
Eh. That doesn’t prevent anything if the unit itself still connects to the internet somehow (looking at you, Wyze).
You really just need to make sure the unit doesn’t and can’t get online. Very few of those out there.
That’s why you flash the vacuum with a custom firmware!
https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo
First two sentences of that readme:
Doh! My bad.
It isn’t custom firmware but it does install software on top of the existing firmware onboard which is pretty slick.
And that is why VLANs are amazing. Can’t phone home if it can’t connect to the internet.
Until it outright refuses to work without its cloud connection