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That robot looks very nice indeed! I looked at the rooting instructions, and there's this lovely, bolded, line:

> This was patched in many new firmwares. Do NOT update your robot via the Mi Home app if you want to root.

Which sounds ominous if you're buying the robot new today. How do you feel about posting back here, or emailing me, or whatever, after you give it a shot? That bot plus open source firmware looks absolutely ideal.

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Unfortunately it seems that the old stock is running out and they're now selling robots with a firmware version that is too new for that rooting method right from the factory. _Some_ users report that they still got UART rootable robots but the number of those who didn't steadily increases.

That doesn't mean that those robots aren't rootable though. We do have more rooting methods, however those aren't public currently. It is TBD how we will move on from here.

Wow this feels a bit Baader-Meinhoff. With Valetudo + self-emptying as motivation, I received my Z10 via Amazon / "Dreametech official store" just this past Friday. Happily, it arrived with fw 4.1.7_1056 and I was able to use the simple reset method to install. Valetudo's worked wonderfully for the past week and I've never even seen the official app. One note: VT is not open source firmware. It's more like a brain controlling parasite with a good UX.

Yeah, unfortunately this model isn't available in the UK so I'm just going to have to take a stab in the dark. I'll find out soon enough.

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