Bye-bye, Roomba Ernie.
You were taken from us too early.
Bye-bye, Roomba Ernie.
You’re 5,000 candles in the wind.
You were taken from us too early.
Bye-bye, Roomba Ernie.
You’re 5,000 candles in the wind.
But since it's getting harder to find ones that don't connect to the network, I think I may just start actually repairing the one that's currently used as a vacuum when it breaks, so I can continue to have a good robotic vacuum.
It's a open source application that (after rooting the vacuum) replaces the cloud with a self hosted control webUI.
I am a big fan.
Can I run a Roomba whilst preventing it calling home?
Is there a setting for that or would I have to configure firewall rules?
You can prevent some of the telemetry with a pi hole, but be aware that every run will end with a notification of "communication error" when the Roomba tries to report on you
It lets you run them without any cloud connectivity or forced updates.