That makes a lot of sense! Thanks for all of your work on this project, it's awesome!

how did you change the voice sounds?

@@Thompson7177 you just upload the audio clips and the roborock oucher script will play them.

If you do have flashing lights make sure they are pinkyblue and don't forget to install a Japanese toilet.

Linnox is on everything. Probably because it's open source and can run on extremely crappy hardware. I think that anything that needs to do any complex computing within the constraints of not so great hardware probably runs a flavor of Linnox on it. Robotic vacuums, smart home hubs, some ATM machines cash registers, although some stuff does run a flavor of windows if it has a screen.

Its the single most ubiquitous piece of software ever written...

If you think about it, it has to be running some sort of operating system realistically due to the complexity of the software etc and the number of pieces of hardware involved. And it’s not going to be running Windows or macOS, and Linux is much easier for random robotic cleaning companies to build software on top of than some exotic embedded OS.

@@tramcrazy that's what I'm saying. You have to actually run programs on the device. Maybe the most basic robots use ESP 32 devices, but even then you are stretching the limits of those devices.

(I have never seen such excessive use of parentheses) 😅

factory restore media? you can just image the drive to another one and go nuts. ARM is cool. W11 is actual spyware.

​@ha231 you're too young to know of lisp.

@@calvinbrowne2126 I've heard of it, but indeed have never used it. Still, bit odd to see so many used in this way.

Why is he doing all of this?

From what I remember he has a texecom alarm system, the PIR's for those are "Pet friendly" - not 100% sure on how they work, but they don't seem to detect anything at ground level (i.e. cats/dogs) - my two robot vacuums roam around whilst our (texecom) alarm is armed with no issues.

Good point, I do have pet safe PIRs so they shouldn't detect such a small object although it's definitely a good shout to actually test this before running the robot while the alarm is armed. That said, I generally just run the robot while I'm at home - not sure I trust it enough to leave it completely unattended!

Probably not unfortunately, no Eufy models are listed as supported on the Valetudo site.

From the Valetudo site: "No multi-floor/multi-map support Due to various major technical limitations, Valetudo does not support and will not support multiple maps. If you need multiple maps, Valetudo likely won’t be an option for you. Not having multi-floor support actually isn’t something all too terrible though, as investing in a second robot greatly improves the usefulness of the unit. Having to manually carry the robot to another floor very much degrades the benefits of a fully automated vacuum robot. This “fire and forget” mode of operation was why you’ve considered to buy a vacuum robot in the first place, remember? As far as financial reasons are concerned, 200€ should be more than enough to buy a factory new supported one even featuring LIDAR. If you’re happy with buying a used unit, at least here in germany, supported ones usually cost around 70-125€ (2023-06-10) Rationally, there’s a need (automated cloud-free cleaning on every floor) and there’s also a budget for that. Make your buying decisions based on that and that alone instead of some arbitrary made-up additional constraint such as “Having more than one vacuum robot is insane!!111 I mean… Two robots! Who does that?!?!”. We’ve been working a lot on making that buying decision easier for you by supporting more robots and enhancing the support for existing ones so that it should be possible for everyone to afford 1-n supported robots."

I'm still angry at Google for stopping support for the Dropcam.

Look on the channel a little over a year ago.

@@NearCry91 Thanks, T6E Tuya screen kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mKqHnLRj3bTXhJs.html

You have to shut it down first. Usually this is achieveable when you fist punch at the area where the cpu is located.

@@denis2381 you need Stella-Artois installed locally before you can do that.

Exactly. Some people enjoy not spending multiple hours dealing with Yaml files. Face it home assistant fans, you still have to do more coding than you do with most other home automation solutions, I don't care how good the UI has gotten. I don't have the time for that!

This is my thoughts exactly, while I do use Home Assistant now, my smart home was initially built purely using Node-RED (and most of my automation is still implemented in Node-RED with HA acting mostly as a UI and to talk to certain devices). Home Assistant fanboys actually put me off even trying it properly for a very long time!

@@camerongray1515 I use HomeKit as our smart Home dashboard and for automations. I know, sacrilegious. But Homebridge Virtual switches help me out with automating using the very limited HomeKit automations. Admittedly, HomeKit shouldn't be used as your smart home hub. Nonetheless, it works pretty well as one and is far above Amazon Alexa and Google Home automations. It also works completely locally. As a voice assistant, Siri is in our home, but we mainly use Alexa as we have one device and almost every room.

Very much agree, same goes for network cables that only have 2 pairs/4 wires that work, but only at 100mbps. Seen them quite often included with things like set top boxes where they inevitably end up getting bundled in with a pile of other cables and then get pulled out and used with something else that then only links at 100mbps. I now have a habit of throwing out such cables any time I come across them.

@@camerongray1515 I didn't even know such network cables existed, yuck, just yuck. How can you identify network cables that operate at a slower speed? I didn't know that such a restriction existed with network cables. Isn't Cat 6 E the latest standard? What standard do 100 Mbps cables comply with? I think most people have Gigabit capable gear now, so the cables you speak of would be quite old technology now, wouldn't they?

@@Lachlant1984 Fast Ethernet (100 MB/s) was introduced in 1995 as the IEEE 802.3u standard and remained the fastest version of Ethernet for three years before the introduction of Gigabit Ethernet.

@@camerongray1515 I discovered there are some devices that won't play nice with those cables I was actually using a pair of adapters which allow 2 network connections through one cable (limited to 100mbps though), but one of the devices just kept trying to establish a gigabit link over and over, and didn't fall back to using 100mbps (which i know it supports)