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We recently were gifted a DEEBOT OZMO T8 AIVI ... and while the hardware side works pretty flawless, the software side is just a major shitstorm. Like every tim
by fho 4y ago
We recently were gifted a DEEBOT OZMO T8 AIVI ... and while the hardware side works pretty flawless, the software side is just a major shitstorm. Like every time I open the control app the map looks different. So far I had the following problems:
1. The "split this room" feature does not work on two rooms that have been detected as one. I believe that that is due to the bot not recognising a central chimney as "not room".
2. While cleaning it detects the closed bathroom door as a wall and then does not path into there anymore. As far as I can tell this does not trigger any warning, the bot just drives back into the charging station after some time.
3. The position of the charging station was lost, which made the bot update the map in a weird way, superimposing where it thought it was skewed over the map.
I feel like some of those problems could be fixed fairly easily if users had more control over the SLAM process. I.e. the ability to permanently fix walls in the map.
- patrickk 4y agoIf you’re lucky enough to have a model that supports Valetudo, reflashing the firmware with an open source alternative can alleviate some software problems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25856788 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25856788
- fho 4y agoNo ... sadly the bot is not supported. I recently saw an announcement of a "brain replacement" project for (a specific) robotic mowers ... such an "after market" project for robotic vacuums would be great. But replacing the electronics is definitely no easy feat.