Amazon terminates iRobot deal, Roomba maker to lay off 31% of staff::Amazon and iRobot said regulatory concerns made it impossible for the deal to move forward, sending the Roomba makers’ shares plummeting.

  • @[email protected]
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    1411 months ago

    What options are there out of the box? I only know of hacking well known brands and use something like valetudo

    • @lemming741
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      11 months ago

      I put a wemos d1 mini in mine since all I need to do is mash the existing Clean button. The internal MCU runs on 3.3v, the buttons are pulled low and activated by the same 3.3v rail, so all I had to do was flash it with ESPhome and wire the low side of the buttons to a gpio. I wanted to read the LED state but the multiplex scheme wasn’t worth decoding. I did use the single analog pin to measure battery voltage, and an input for the roller and blower motors.

    • @ElusiveClarity
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      111 months ago

      I’ve heard nothing but great things about Roborock.

      • @blueeggsandyam
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        111 months ago

        I have one and it works well. Vacuum and moping in one machine that costs a lot less than the irobot equivalent. You can also load it with Valetudo (open source robot vacuum firmware)

        https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo