Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots."

quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not a single one of the robot vacuums that I’ve bought in the last 2 years seem to be able to function without internet access.

  It’s asinine.

  Also they break down so freaking fast. It’s not even funny. Even worse when the part that’s broken is non-replaceable and it’s like a $3 part.

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• Johanno@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can’t do shit on those roombas without a connection to the manufacturers servers.

  On and off is the most you can do.

  In order to make them work again once the servers are down, you need to spoof the dns to a local server that you then need to reverse engineer from the api.

  If you are lucky the thing has home assistant integration because some awesome people already did exactly that or the manufacturer was kind enough to give access to the bot api

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  • quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wow, what a piece of shit. Dumb engineers.

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    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can guarantee you it wasn’t the engineers that wanted it this way

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No fucking way this was decided by an engineer instead of a manager

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    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dumb shit like this is never the engineer’s idea.

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