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Re:New Roomba Has Persistent Maps, Selective Room Cleaning, ... by mikejb on Thursday September 06, 2018 @02:31PM (#17928361)
The phone opening the access point for the router doesn't have a SIM card, and is just there to provide a WiFi connection for the Roomba to be able to control it. That way, the vacuum can't access the internet but I can still control it.
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Re:New Roomba Has Persistent Maps, Selective Room Cleaning, ... by 394549 on Friday September 07, 2018 @10:49AM (#17934651)
> That way, the vacuum can't access the internet but I can still control it.

Interesting! The camera functionality still works without an internet connection? I'd always assumed that some of the processing was getting offloaded to the "cloud," since I couldn't see another reasonable need for the wifi connection.

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