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You may want to check if your robot is supported by Valetudo: https://valetudo.cloud/

Reading through that site, it seems like instead of locking yourself into a corporations app, you're locking it into his instead. He doesn't seem to want to run an open source community, he's building an app for himself and publishing it for people who have exactly the same use case as him.

True, but you don't need to install updates once you have the software installed, and it's probably better not to. The software on the robot doesn't need the app to control, either - it exposes an API that either the app or custom software can talk to, sans cloud servers.

ooo thanks for the link, buuut it appears NEATO Robotics vacuums aren't supported ... yet.

I had hoped Home Assistant might be able to handle it but it appears their integration just sends the data to NEATO, which no no longer works.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/neato/

Blarg.

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