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

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#...