I’m honestly not entirely sure. I’ve been eyeballing Valetudo for a few years now, but the price of the supported robots was out of my budget until I happened onto the $20 Wyze from eBay. Took a chance and won big. I’m into it a whopping $65. And a bit of labor to swap the motherboard (mine refused to run ADB at all). But that’s the fun part for me.
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irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And then it dawned on me - I now have a completely autonomous robot roaming my house, not attached to any cloud services
I have one of the older model rumba’s. It does have wifi capabilities, but I’ve never connected it. Do the newer models require you to connect to wifi? Valetudo looks interesting tho.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Responded with the wrong account… I try not to have any crossover between the accounts, but here we are…
Anyway.
Probably. I only have the two robots.
It’s really quite fascinating. Valetudo is not a 3rd party firmware - it’s a cloud replacement that’s hosted on the robot itself, and also runs a webserver which gives you access to the actual controls and relevant firmware options.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah but can it run Doom? That’s the burning question
B0rax@feddit.org 1 day ago
Well these robots run a Linux distribution as a base. So yes, sure, they will run doom just fine.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
If you can manage to get video out, I’m sure it can be done. These little Allwinner SOCs are pretty decent.