Thread 106529629

Anyone here using a Robot Vacuum? I'm thinking of getting an X40 Ultra and flashing it with Valetudo. I can get it for $1,700 AUD now (~$1,100 USD) but I'm thinking it might get cheaper on Black Friday.

>>106529629 (OP)
I just get the woman to do that.

>>106529643
It's fascinating how vacuum devices replaced all the woman features:
Vacuum cleaner
Vacuum packed meals
Vacuum fleshlight

>>106529629 (OP)
I tried it and I hate it. They are loud, slow and does a terrible job at cleaning. Just get a vacuum mop and a maid outfit. I use a tineco s9

>>106529629 (OP)
I do. An old roomba 600-somehing series. It does a very respectable job. Yeah, I could do a better job myself but I get 90% the results for no effort whatsoever, so to me that's worth it.
For me it's been worth every penny for the last 5 or 6 years.

I love them. I don't have a recommendation other than that you should get one. I got a used older model.
That discharge station is nice but not THAT necessary. If you let the bot run very regularly, it will pick up very little and you only need to empty it like once per week.
One thing I would recommend is going for one that has some feature to reach into corners.

>>106529659
When I was a kid I used to use the vacuum to fap. Just stuck my dick in and turned it on. If I got the angle right it would start vibrating my dick, good times
>>106529663
>Loud
You're not supposed to run them when you're home
>Slow
Again, doesn't matter because it has all day to do it while you're a work or out of the house
>Terrible job
From what I've seen they're no where near as good as manually cleaning, but I only need it to be 70% as good. Then I can do a proper clean once a month. Plus, it can do two passes a day

>>106529629 (OP)
Wait for the new models to come out as there is one that has all this shit plus the arm that picks up socks and shit off the floor.

>>106529663
How fast do you want it to go? Also if you make it go faster it'll be even worse at cleaning. These aren't ment to be deep cleaning they are for maintenance. I have two vacuums for up and down stairs. They keep the dust managed and keep everything cleaner longer without having to mop. If you want to mop get a steam mop its easy. I haven't used the mop feature on any robot as I don't think it really does much seeing how I mop regularly anyway.

>>106529776
they are just as good at cleaning sucking up pet hair, random hairs, dust, dirt, and so forth. You still gotta mop every soften but I imagine with mop attachment it'll be fine. At least if its a low traffic area.

I got a cheaper dreame (L10s) and it's handy. Some pointers
>get a more expensive model with extensible mop to reach the corners
>set it to max everything, except if you have a huge mansion. Max suction, deep mopping, max dampness, mop wash every 10sqm
>do not buy the official detergent, you can refill it with cheaper stuff
>buy parts from aliexpress in advance
>keep it clean on the inside

>>106529896
I was looking at that model because it's half off at the moment, but people said it doesn't work well on thick carpet because it has lower suction power.
I'm very much buy once, cry once. Would rather spend more now

I've got one of these rebranded 3irobotix CRL-200S ones and am very happy with it. I run it once a day which greatly reduces dust buildup. I clean out the dust compartment once a week. And don't use the mop.
Being able to run Valetudo on it was important to me because I don't want to be reliant on a proprietary app and cloud provider. They may choose at any time to include ads, discontinue their service, or put features behind a paywall. With Valetudo I just block the robot's internet access and everything still works and will work the same way forever (until the robot breaks down).

>>106530340
There's not a huge amount of discussion on Valetudo because it's so niche. How's the process and result? Does it feel janky or lacking? How hard is it to reverse?
I definitely want to run it but I'm worried about permanently ruining or degrading an expensive appliance.
Also the main dev fucking hates Reddit so that's always a positive in my books

>>106529629 (OP)
Yeah dude it has this super neat feature where it scans your entire house and sells the data it collects, so convenient!

>>106529663
>loud, slow and does a terrible job
so a perfect replacement as per >>106529659 's thesis

>>106529629 (OP)
Too expensive. Why isnt there an open source version? Its mainly the software for detection/pathfinding thats really the cost driver. Brush, battery, suction power, shouldnt cost that much.

>>106529629 (OP)
I have some old xiaomeme/roborock one.
I really should upgrade sometime soon because it's starting to show its age but it still does the job so I can't justify it yet.
Check vacuum wars for comparisons

>>106529629 (OP)
They're fukken great. I had roborock 6s I think and it did great job already. Id be still using it if battery hasnt died. Which considering 5 years long abuse by my cleanliness mad wife - thats good in my book.
Now I got another roborock, just fancy one with docking station n shit. Qrevo curve I think. Its ugly as sin but does everything except sucking my dick.
You spilled some shit on the floor? Literally just shout across the flat and it will come running and spot clean your mess.
Whatever you'll get just buy some spare parts in advance as the models are getting retired quickly and only cheap knockoffs are available. Which is fine for plastic dingies but at least aim to get genuine battery.

Having whole appartment layout, mic and camera fed directly to CCP is a minus I guess.

>>106530807
>How's the process and result?
The process is different depending on the robot. A lot of them require a breakout PCB. Which is supposedly easy to make. But I opted for a robot that's still insecure enough that I could connect to it via an exposed USB connector. Though it to took a bit of trial and error since connection was only possible after booting the robot as a startup script would disable the connector. But I got the access evnetually. After that it was rather easy.

>Does it feel janky or lacking?
I've never used the vendor app, so I can't say if it's lacking in comparison. I mean, the vendor supported multiple floors and Valetudo doesn't. But I'm living in a flat with only one floor. And for multiple floors you'd have to carry the robot up- and down the stairs anyway, which is impractical. But it's working just fine.
Keep in mind Valetudo is only a cloud replacement. The firmware is still mostly the same. So the mapping, pathfinding, and everything will still be original.

>How hard is it to reverse?
No idea. If you make a backup of the file system before any changes it should work? But if you don't it might not be possible since you will flash a slightly modified firmware.

>I definitely want to run it but I'm worried about permanently ruining or degrading an expensive appliance.
Yeah, I get that you might be apprehensive. I didn't get a high-end one. It cost around 200 €. But that's still a lot of money thrown out the window if you brick the robot. You should find resources somewhere which features (if avalable) Valetudo supports. Again, obstace avoidance and such should not be affected as it's part of the unchanged firmware.

>Also the main dev fucking hates Reddit so that's always a positive in my books
The main dev seems... difficult. I'll just not engage in their community. The latest release notes just reinforce my beliefs. (In it they even reacted to a singular random 4chan post where someone caimed Valetudo was a backdoor, kek.)

>>106530851
lrn2read

>>106531047
You can just change the battery. It's piss easy. I changed the battery on my old one and put it on another floor. Now I have 2

>>106531047
I got one of those too. Mopping is shit. I prefer to use manual mopping for my wood floors. Maybe for the vinyl stuff it would be better. The dock is nice. It's a lot quieter than my old s4 though so I moved the s4 to the bottom floor.

>>106529629 (OP)
I have one. It doesn't reduce the frequency I manually clean my house at, but it keeps it cleaner between the cleanings. Someday, I'd like to get one of those really advanced ones like in the OP image.

>>106529776
>vacuum to fap
My uncle used to work at a halfway house for youthful offenders. Said they had to deal with a vacuum penis injury about once a month. Never asked for details but the kids in that program weren't all that intelligent so wouldn't be surprised if some of them allowed the hose the stick to their pubis. That would have been painful enough, and made worse by panicking instead of turning it off.

>>106530872
Aliexpress has plenty of them. There are open source firmware replacements and 3d printable FOSS vacuums. No one really bothers because they're cheap enough from Ali and the parts change too frequently for there to be open source firmware for every model.

>>106529663
putting on a maid costume for cleaning time is very cute
(personally I like robovacs tho, save for the proprietary sw)

>>106531047
>roborock 6s
misread as robocock

I can't really imagine these things being even slightly useful. My family are retarded and will leave their shit all over the floor, so you have to pick that up, it doesn't do stairs, and it takes forever to pick up next to nothing. Vacuuming is a hassle, but it takes 10 minutes a week.

>>106529629 (OP)
i got one and it was life changing.

>>106531840
I have a mate who has two cats in a 2 bedroom apartment. It always had cat hair and over dirt all over the place. One day I visited I immediately noticed the place looked freshly vacuumed. I asked if he had just vacuumed and he showed me his new robot vacuum. That immediately sold me on them.

>>106529629 (OP)
Christ that's overpriced. Doesn't really offer anything over a 7 year old model at half the price.

>>106531840
>>106532083
Dramatically improved my allergies using one, and it only ran like once a week.

>>106531867
What's actually life changing is a dish washer. They actually do a better job at washing dishes than humans. Meanwhile, even the best robot vacuums struggle to compete with a person who is competent at cleaning.

>>106529629 (OP)
i have a roborock qrevo master, it's great. the mop is an absolutely must.

the only a bit annoying part at first is that it just cannot handle wires, it gets stuck on them, so it forces you to have an organized room with all the cables hidden, which ends being a very good thing. the AI object detection is completely unreliable so it is better to disable all of that, and just get used to not leave crap on the floor.

>>106532207
>Meanwhile, even the best robot vacuums struggle to compete with a person who is competent at cleaning.
Yeah but you can buy a robot for like 1k and then just let it run while you do other shit. You have to pay more over time for a person, or you have to give up your own time and clean.

>>106532274
I know.

>>106529643
No, you don't, balding virgin loser.

>>106531050
I hope they will react to this post calling the valetudo dev the stenzek of vacuum robots.

>>106529629 (OP)
too many cables on the ground

I got a Roborock s8 pro ultra recently off eBay. So far it's working pretty well. It allegedly comes with a two year warranty

>>106532207
totally wrong. dish washers are similar to robo vacs. neither of them are going to be do everything perfectly, they will miss some stuff, stuck on grime might need you to do it manually. but both of them let you clean lots of things while saving time and not doing it yourself. robovac can even clean while youre not home, you dont have to load up fishes or put them away.

>>106529629 (OP)
can't use mine after moving out...
mother didn't want to follow me

>>106535560
You might just have a bad dish washer. Mine does the job 98% of the time. The remaining 2% is for dishes that can't survive its heat, things I placed poorly in it, or extreme cases that need a lot of scrubbing. Relatively speaking, it does a much, much better job than my robot vacuum.

>>106529629 (OP)
Dreame vacuums are great ngl.
Saves me a lot of work because I hate cleaning in general.

>>106535750
you dont scrub food debris off before putting it in the dishwasher? that means you will need to clean more often too.

>>106535939
I rinse it first, but if I straight up scrubbed the dished beforehand, then I might as well wash them myself, which defeats the purpose.

>>106536069
what dishwasher do you have? i find it hard to believe that it would be able to disintegrate food thats kinda hard and stuck on without scrubbing it off.

is there a robot mop yet? small particles of dust which have not adhered to the surface can be cleaned in literally 30 seconds even for large spaces. the real problems are those which require a mop.
>>106529663
>Just get a vacuum mop and a maid outfit.
lol

>>106536755
all of them having a mopping feature now. some just dont mop very strongly.

I grabbed a Xiaomi X10 when it went on sale here for 200€ to upgrade my old Roomba 980 and I'm pretty happy with it.

>>106536231
>i find it hard to believe that it would be able to disintegrate food thats kinda hard and stuck on
It doesn't. But that happens very rarely to my dishes.

>>106530851
w-why does xi jinping want to know where my bedroom is... aaaa

How do you use this shit if there's always someone at home?

>>106529629 (OP)
>robot vacuum
Don't waste your time. But your mum, sister or gf a Dyson.

>>106529629 (OP)
Dreame is sus, I have router logs of it trying to log in as admin. I’m sure that was the device hadn’t changed because no DHCP assignment happened between when it tried to log on and when I viewed the currently connected devices/ipv4 addresses.

>>106537303
>That was the device, because no DHCP assignment happened
Guess I’m having issues today

>>106529629 (OP)
>$1700
Do i really need to spend that much to get a decent vacumm?
I really only need one for my small apartment when im off at work
Im willing to spend like $300 dollars on one

>>106537755
I have xiaomi S20+ robo cleaner and its amazing, I payed about $220 for it.

You need to pay $1700 if you are a lazy nigger who can't clean mops or dust chamber once for a month.

>>106529659
>It's fascinating how vacuum devices replaced all the woman features:
are you saying that women suck?

A warehouse-size industrial wide mop is a pretty good alternative to dusting and sweeping, it just absorbs dust and hair, idk if it's just pushing it around but I don't see it so it must be gone, you don't even need to use water.

>>106537755
Remember this is AUD.
And a decent stick vacuum is $600 to $1000, so getting something that will do 90% of the job automatically for 50-100% more is not terrible value.

>>106538040
My mother in law go me one of these mops and told me to flood the floor with it, let the soapy water soak then suck up the water with a water vac. Works really well and takes no effort.

>>106538040
These things work so well

>>106529629 (OP)
>Anyone here using a Robot Vacuum?
Grandma had one. It was funny watching the little retard crash against a wall, then go backwards for two seconds just to crash again in the same place. The cat hated that shit.

>>106532327
Ask me how I know you're a fat female.

>>106529629 (OP)
I got an l10s ultra heat or something, put the software on it. Been good! Still likes to eat a cord every now and then. I didn't need to make the adapter, just wired a USB cable into the header. Hardest part was booting a laptop off a live Linux USB to do the jail breaking. Web UI is good, has maps and stuff, integrated with home assistant fine. I also 3d printed a dust bin so I didn't have to use bags, jury is out on the current revision. Put glados voice pack on it, probably revert that since I can't understand half of if what it says, too auto tuned.

>>106542884
Do you have the use Debian? The instructions insist on it but doesn't explain why, would be good if I could Ubuntu because that's what I have installed.
Glados voice sounds amazing though

>>106531590
Yeah but when I tried to buy one after the model retired I could only find knockoffs with +one gazillion% extra capacity.
Which would be great but after some digging it turned out that they use cheapest cells that die after half a year of use.
Since they all look shady as fuck I had a real trouble to find replacement. I managed eventually, but amount of effort it took was a bit too much for my liking.
Better get one from manufacturer when they are still available and relativly cheap

>>106531615
Dunno, its better than my previous one and im happy with it.
As long as I don't have to do shit other than exchange water in tanks every once in a while

>>106543021
I think I used Ubuntu, they pretty similar. It's a strange installation method, using Blockchain and web services to modify the images. I guess just make sure your device is supported and read ahead. Done sections are time critical.

>>106545020
*Some sections

I use a stick vacuum

>>106543021
The other things is these things can get heavy discounts, check the price with camel

>>106544394
You can just replace the cells yourself, fortunately pretty much all of them use standard cell sizes.

>>106529629 (OP)
I got a iRobot roomba i7+ with self emptying base for cheap ($350), ive been using it for about 3 years now and its alright, but the mapping system sometimes creates 'hallways' that don't exist. I also got a iRobot roomba i1+ from goodwill for $10, which i keep in my basement. Its a bit stupider and you cannot tell it to vacuum a room twice but for $10 i cant complain.

If you have that much money you are willing to spend on a robot vacuum I recommend getting a Roborock

>>106531050
>The main dev seems... difficult
>The latest release notes just reinforce my beliefs.
Good fucking lord this guy needs a tard wrangler
https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo/releases/tag/2025.08.0

This is very impressive.

https://youtu.be/PcunhO0cy9Q

>>106546587
I really don't want a second base for that tank. I will consider it when they manage to integrate it into the main base.
Also they could make it to also somehow vacuum the stairs. Wasted chance.

>>106546031
Sure thing, let me whip out my spot welder to attach new cells to a zinc strip... don't know how battery pack in your robovac looks like but mine was solid piece of plastic that you had to open with a fucking saw.
I know as out of curiosity I opened the dead one.
No latches, just 5mm thick plastic shell that was welded shut with only tiny out for the cable connector.
So, I dont think replacing single cells in the pack make lick of sense when the whole thing is like 20 dorars and you need special equipment to do so. Not to mention I know shit about BMS setup so probably id just end up burning my house down.
Not worth the effort

>>106531047
>voice activation
Holy shit I have a Qrevo and it doesn't have that. Sounds awesome lol.

>>106529629 (OP)
Got a Roborock s8+ for my mom (she has a corgi). Mopping feature is a gimmick and not worth bothering with. Does a good enough job keeping the her home free of dog hair.

It's Lidar is what sets it apart from Roombas.

Hoovering is one of the easiest cleaning jobs, it takes 5 mins to do my room.

>>106529629 (OP)
They are pieces of shit.
>be me
>be normal fag with wife, kids and dogs
>had dummie roomba as a gift, thought it was pretty ok.
>See Bezos sell for the super smart Roomba with cameras and pet shit detection during Amazon sale.
>get it.
>stupid roomba doesn't want to vacuum over the rug, even though it is clean, thinks rug patterns are dog poop,
>The Roomba is fucking useless unless it can get past the living room rug otherwise it won't vacuum most of the house. turn off pet shit detector still works, but now it runs over kid toys and shit gets stuck, meh whatever good enough.
>one day dog throws up when we are at work, roomba not only spreads dog throwup throughout the whole house, it breaks and is not covered under warranty.

But it had fucking "AI" dog shit detection. What a joke. They fucking suck. If you need a robo vacuum, its because you need to vacuum all the time because you have dogs and kids, if you don't have dogs and kids, then you really don't need to vacuum all the time. They are fucking useless.

>>106548451
Shame they're not customizeable though. Sometimes I wish I could just tell it to fuck off when my wife abuses it by doing whole flat for like 10th time in a row.
Still pretty neat, esp as I dont have to install chink spyware on my phone and I can just tell the chink spyware to go and clean the kitchen after im done cooking