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@neverpanic@chaos.social
2026-01-14 22:44:09

On a more positive note, my home now features a #vacuum robot running the open source #Valetudo cloud replacement. The guide on how to do that was surprisingly easy to follow. Some light soldering, a bit of flashing that's pretty similar to rooting an Android device, and it's done.
And becau…

A black PCB roughly the size of a USB stick with pin headers, a button, a jumper header, and a micro-USB and USB-A socket. Next to it, a smaller PCB that provides a 90º breakout for the pins for robots that have their debug port mounted in a less accessible location. The PCB layout is available on GitHub at https://github.com/Hypfer/valetudo-dreameadapter/tree/master/pcbs/dreamebreakout.
A screenshot of the Valetudo web interface; the left shows a map of the apartment with rooms in different colors. It is heavily blurred, because you all don't need the floor plan of where I live. The right side shows controls for the robots to set operation mode, fan and water use, issue commands to the dock and show statistics for the last run.