> you can root it. And even get spotify running on it

Some might ask why you'd want Spotify on your vacuum? I would have it play Dolly Parton's "(Working) 9 to 5" on loop whenever it's running. I feel like that would be hilarious forever. Other suggestions welcome.

I like the one where the guy made the vacuum scream every time it ran into something

You talk like you've never heard of DJ Roomba.

Kraftwerk – We Are the Robots

Dan Mangan - Robots ~ "Robots need love too..."

Is rooting it worth it? I have one but I haven't bothered with rooting it yet. It would be worth it if I could start-stop it locally, as the app has to go through China and the latency is ~2 seconds, which is terrible.

You don't even need to root it.

Most Xiaomi smart-devices speak a protocol called miIO. There are several libraries/bindings for your favorite languages/tools as well as a nice CLI tool[0].

The only tricky part is getting the device token[1]. But once you have that it's smooth sailing.

[0] https://python-miio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/vacuum.html [1] https://python-miio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/discovery.html#...

Oh I had set that up and then forgot about it, I'll give it another shot. Thanks!

Oh wow I had no idea this was all out there. Thanks :)

I've recently got a Xiaomi one myself. Will look into these ressources, thanks.