rand256/valetudo

Valetudo external installation

Manuel-Haas opened this issue · 2 comments

It seems to get harder and harder to root newer vacuum robots - even Dreame-devices.

Why not install Valetudo outside the robot - eg on a RPi within the local net? Or as a VM on the local NAS? We could provide a dedicated SSID and VLAN, which connects the unmodified robot directly with the Valtudo-VM.

Or how about a docker-container / home-assistant-addon?

Yes - this adds some complexity to the local network, but there is no need to modify the robot anymore.

I'm pretty sure it's possible to do "update" the robots easily without Pi or other "things" there is just to follow the procedures.. and probably some software such miiota helper.. I guess you could share your experience and write down what you did to get your robot "updated" this would be helpful for the community.. if not wrong it there's in any cases to interface the robot via usb, is that correct?

By the way, I'm currently developing a camera to render the maps, I'm not sure if your robot is supported can you please try the valetudo vacuum camera?