Comment on OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots!

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• digger@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Check out Valetudo.

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  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s so ironic that valetudo doesn’t support roomba considering roombas used to be a hackable robotics platform, even selling the robots without the vacuum components, with many models of vacuums shipping with serial ports right on top.

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  • besmtt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Been using valetudo for years. Love it.

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• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The world has needed it for printers for decades.

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  • hemmes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    OMG, yes please 🙏

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• Decq@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hasn’t this problem long been solved in roomba’s? Mine is about 8 years old and it doesn’t go around randomly. I assumed all new models don’t do that anymore, except for some very cheap off brand vacuum robots.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean the open firmware. And mine is older.

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    • Decq@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes that would be nice to have. Sadly when I bought my Roomba I didn’t care too much about that. My next one will be hackable though.

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  • DrunkenPirate@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can’t compare indoors and outdoors directly. I think random has its means in an uneven environment. It simply doesn’t matter if the odometry sucks, if the wheels stick in muddy earth or small sticks block on side.

    Advanced sensors such as GPS and cam isn’t very precise outdoors. That’s why newer models come with its own positioning sender.

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    • Decq@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was mostly talking about roombas/indoor. For outdoors you have GPS with RTK which most mowers use that work without a boundary wire, afaik.

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