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I used Valetudo on my early Roborock model and it worked great for many years. Unfortunately, the battery gave out and it's somehow DRMed, so even though everyt
by stavros 11mo ago
I used Valetudo on my early Roborock model and it worked great for many years. Unfortunately, the battery gave out and it's somehow DRMed, so even though everything else works fine, the vacuum refuses to work because it doesn't like the new battery.
It's the worst kind of e-waste, it's only waste because someone decided I should buy a whole new vacuum when the battery dies, but Valetudo is otherwise good. Just never try to look for support at all.
- gspr 11mo agoThis stuff should flat-out be illegal.
- KeplerBoy 11mo agoOh boy the creator of valetudo sure has an abrasive writing style. Whatever works for him, I guess.
- ghostpepper 11mo agoIt's too bad because it's such a great project otherwise. He puts a ton of free labour into the system and I'm sure he's dealt with some entitled users but it's really a huge reason I don't recommend it to more people. Actively telling people they must learn to solder and making the only support channel on telegram are two big turn-offs for a lot of people. This is absolutely his right and perhaps his intention to keep the project small, but in that case I wish there was another alternative vacuum firmware project.
- meindnoch 11mo agoDid you look inside the old battery? It may well be just a bunch of 18650 cells with some electronics in a plastic case. Just desolder the old cells and solder on new ones. I did the same for my wife's cordless vacuum, and it works better than new, because the new cells are about 2x the capacity of the originals.
- miniwark 11mo agoLets go with the usual reminder: de-soldering / soldering Li-ion cells can be super dangerous. With a bit too much of heat it can fire or even explode...
- cogman10 11mo agoIt doesn't quite explode. Instead it shoots out a super hot flame that is nearly impossible to put out. Imagine having a blowtouch that you can't extinguish or touch which is likely rolling around.
- ssl-3 11mo agoThat sounds exactly like one of the kinds of deflagration (aka low-speed explosion) that seems worthwhile to discourage people from invoking. "Hey, the worst case is that you get jets of super-hot flames that are impossible to extinguish!"
- meindnoch 11mo agoHobbyists should buy cells with pre-welded tabs. You solder onto the tabs, not the cell terminals.
- stavros 11mo agoDon't solder lithium cells, even if it goes well you'll ruin them. You need a spot welder.
- Epskampie 11mo agoThis is only good advice if you're good at soldering and know details about cells like which ones have in-built protection. Otherwise you're just creating a fire hazard.