Amazon terminates iRobot deal, Roomba maker to lay off 31% of staff::Amazon and iRobot said regulatory concerns made it impossible for the deal to move forward, sending the Roomba makers’ shares plummeting.

    • ElusiveClarity@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Save yourself the headache and get something that works locally and doesn’t rely on their cloud and app.

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        9 months ago

        True story. I hate all those cloud devices, which can run perfectly locally. And doesn’t require a subscription. I even see it back in cars nowadays, stupid subscriptions.

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        9 months ago

        What options are there out of the box? I only know of hacking well known brands and use something like valetudo

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          9 months ago

          I didn’t realize that so I just went to check on mine and the integration is errored out lol. A quick look on the forums shows that multiple people are having the same issue. When mine was working, I only had a few options like start and go home so it wasn’t that helpful anyways. The roomba app did update with room mapping abilities but I was never able to get that information into home assistant so my only option was a full clean. Maybe it’s changed since mine stopped working but I can’t wait to get something that’s better supported and put this one upstairs where it only has a few rooms to clean.

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        9 months ago

        Reasonably sure i can set up local control through home assistant. Haven’t looked too hard but I’ve always liked the featuresets on the roombas and the Amazon connection was the reason I haven’t done too much investigation yet.

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          9 months ago

          It’d be an easy battle. The last iRobot device I had was a fickle piece of junk that’d error out constantly or ignore virtual walls. I’m on my second Roborock vacuum now and am very impressed with how well they work. I gave my first one away and it’s still working great for the person I gave it to.