alt Hacker NewsNeato made a line of (good) vacuum robots with Lidar.
It seems there were bought by a company called Vorwerk, and Vorwerk are shutting down the cloud infra.
This means the app, floor plans, schedules, no-go zones etc will no longer work. The robot can only be manually started by pushing the button on the device.
As an owner of one of these robots this is sad but not unexpected for anything relying on an app.
By submitting to HN, I’m hopeful someone can point me in the direction of open firmware or OSS projects that can help me restore the lost functionality.
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https://valetudo.cloud is the only one I know about but not sure if the controller in those units would be flashable.
I currently not expect a existing project, but the communication with the server is mostly xml, with the app too.
Vorwerk is the company who makes Themromix - that is a quite expensive cooking robot . They also are a MLM sales company albeit with a decently appealing product. I expect in a couple of months to get calls to get free cleaning demos. I guess they will have a turf war with the Kirby people.