@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 11 months agoMatic is a $1,795 robot vacuum for people concerned about privacymaticrobots.comexternal-linkmessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up1191arrow-down126file-text
arrow-up1165arrow-down1external-linkMatic is a $1,795 robot vacuum for people concerned about privacymaticrobots.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 11 months agomessage-square106fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink20•11 months agoooooor use whatever brand and model is compatible with Home Assistant
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink14•11 months agoEh. That doesn’t prevent anything if the unit itself still connects to the internet somehow (looking at you, Wyze). You really just need to make sure the unit doesn’t and can’t get online. Very few of those out there.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•11 months agoAnd that is why VLANs are amazing. Can’t phone home if it can’t connect to the internet.
minus-squareNyfurelinkfedilink1•11 months agoUntil it outright refuses to work without its cloud connection
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•11 months agoThat’s why you flash the vacuum with a custom firmware! https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo
minus-squarefolkravlinkfedilink10•11 months agoFirst two sentences of that readme: Valetudo is a cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation. It is not a custom firmware.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•11 months agoDoh! My bad. It isn’t custom firmware but it does install software on top of the existing firmware onboard which is pretty slick.
minus-squareBlackEcolinkfedilink1•10 months agoHome Assistant compatibility doesn’t mean it won’t communicate with the cloud. If you want to decloud your robot, try Valetudo
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agono, that’s ridiculous. Would be too expensive
ooooor use whatever brand and model is compatible with Home Assistant
Eh. That doesn’t prevent anything if the unit itself still connects to the internet somehow (looking at you, Wyze).
You really just need to make sure the unit doesn’t and can’t get online. Very few of those out there.
And that is why VLANs are amazing. Can’t phone home if it can’t connect to the internet.
Until it outright refuses to work without its cloud connection
That’s why you flash the vacuum with a custom firmware!
https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo
First two sentences of that readme:
Doh! My bad.
It isn’t custom firmware but it does install software on top of the existing firmware onboard which is pretty slick.
Home Assistant compatibility doesn’t mean it won’t communicate with the cloud. If you want to decloud your robot, try Valetudo
Don’t they have cellphone network capabilities
no, that’s ridiculous. Would be too expensive
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