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I've had the Xiaomi one for a couple of years, the one with lidar. It's great. Used to love watching the app as the little guy gets to work and the map starts b

I've had the Xiaomi one for a couple of years, the one with lidar. It's great. Used to love watching the app as the little guy gets to work and the map starts building realtime. It runs Ubuntu, you can root it. And even get spotify running on it. https://github.com/dgiese/dustcloud https://github.com/dgiese/dustcloud https://medium.com/@anxodio/how-to-get-spotify-working-on-your-xiaomi-vacuum-da28c52bbb4e https://medium.com/@anxodio/how-to-get-spotify-working-on-yo...

bigpeet 7y ago
I've recently got a Xiaomi one myself. Will look into these ressources, thanks.
StavrosK 7y ago
Is rooting it worth it? I have one but I haven't bothered with rooting it yet. It would be worth it if I could start-stop it locally, as the app has to go through China and the latency is ~2 seconds, which is terrible.
- therealtbs 7y ago
  You don't even need to root it. Most Xiaomi smart-devices speak a protocol called miIO. There are several libraries/bindings for your favorite languages/tools as well as a nice CLI tool[0]. The only tricky part is getting the device token[1]. But once you have that it's smooth sailing. [0] https://python-miio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/vacuum.html https://python-miio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/vacuum.html [1] https://python-miio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/discovery.html#device-discovery https://python-miio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/discovery.html#...
  - StavrosK 7y ago
    Oh I had set that up and then forgot about it, I'll give it another shot. Thanks!
  - ElCapitanMarkla 7y ago
    Oh wow I had no idea this was all out there. Thanks :)
bonestamp2 7y ago
> you can root it. And even get spotify running on it Some might ask why you'd want Spotify on your vacuum? I would have it play Dolly Parton's "(Working) 9 to 5" on loop whenever it's running. I feel like that would be hilarious forever. Other suggestions welcome.
- munificent 7y ago
  Kraftwerk – We Are the Robots
  - soperj 7y ago
    Dan Mangan - Robots ~ "Robots need love too..."
- dylan604 7y ago
  I like the one where the guy made the vacuum scream every time it ran into something
- moomin 7y ago
  You talk like you've never heard of DJ Roomba.

bigpeet 7y ago

I've recently got a Xiaomi one myself. Will look into these ressources, thanks.

StavrosK 7y ago

Is rooting it worth it? I have one but I haven't bothered with rooting it yet. It would be worth it if I could start-stop it locally, as the app has to go through China and the latency is ~2 seconds, which is terrible.

therealtbs 7y ago
You don't even need to root it. Most Xiaomi smart-devices speak a protocol called miIO. There are several libraries/bindings for your favorite languages/tools as well as a nice CLI tool[0]. The only tricky part is getting the device token[1]. But once you have that it's smooth sailing. [0] https://python-miio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/vacuum.html https://python-miio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/vacuum.html [1] https://python-miio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/discovery.html#device-discovery https://python-miio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/discovery.html#...
- StavrosK 7y ago
  Oh I had set that up and then forgot about it, I'll give it another shot. Thanks!
- ElCapitanMarkla 7y ago
  Oh wow I had no idea this was all out there. Thanks :)

bonestamp2 7y ago

> you can root it. And even get spotify running on it Some might ask why you'd want Spotify on your vacuum? I would have it play Dolly Parton's "(Working) 9 to 5" on loop whenever it's running. I feel like that would be hilarious forever. Other suggestions welcome.

munificent 7y ago
Kraftwerk – We Are the Robots
- soperj 7y ago
  Dan Mangan - Robots ~ "Robots need love too..."
dylan604 7y ago
I like the one where the guy made the vacuum scream every time it ran into something
moomin 7y ago
You talk like you've never heard of DJ Roomba.