Does anyone have any recommendations for a vacuum bot? I remember seeing a roomba years ago and it seemed fairly silly.
I own an L10 and am very happily running valetudo on it. Someone should make a business out of selling them pre-flashed with valetudo for a less technical audience…
Please don't. Attracting a less technical audience to the project would be immensely harmful to it. It is already quite difficult to deal with issues that technical people might have. You simply do not want everyone to use your open source project. There is also no point in doing so. Why would one want to make their own life harder?
From Why Valetudo[0]:
First of all, please do not try to convince people to use Valetudo.
We all know how terribly it usually turns out when people try to
convince their friends to use linux on their desktop. Using Valetudo
only makes sense if you understand its goals and feel like they are
important to you. Everything else will fail.
It is perfectly fine to continue using the cloud if you don’t really
care about its downsides. Do not flame people for doing that. You
can be a bit snarky about downtimes, lag and other cloud shenanigans
though :)
The only thing I need to do regularly is to fill water tank in Braava and wash the moping pad, and every once a while replace the bag in Roomba self-emptying base.
One thing to note is that this requires fairly high-end models, at least in case of Roomba. I used some e-series model before and I wasn't happy. Now I have i7 series and it's a big difference (primarily in self-learning and navigation)