Re:I am mesmerized by our new robotic vacuum (2019)
by StavrosK on Monday March 16, 2020 @09:15AM
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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.
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Re:I am mesmerized by our new robotic vacuum (2019)
by therealtbs on Monday March 16, 2020 @11:06AM
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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#...
Re:I am mesmerized by our new robotic vacuum (2019)
by StavrosK on Monday March 16, 2020 @12:04PM
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Oh I had set that up and then forgot about it, I'll give it another shot. Thanks!
Re:I am mesmerized by our new robotic vacuum (2019)
by ElCapitanMarkla on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:33AM
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Oh wow I had no idea this was all out there. Thanks :)