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A great opportunity to bring up that a robot that operates 100% locally and is located within Bluetooth range has never needed a cloud account, has never had to
by hamstergene 10mo ago
A great opportunity to bring up that a robot that operates 100% locally and is located within Bluetooth range has never needed a cloud account, has never had to become unavailable whenever AWS goes down, and certainly doesn't have to be reduced to a manual dud when its company ceases to exist. I wonder what whoever produced such "Systems Design" would have to say to customers now.
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- calcifer 10mo ago> a robot that operates 100% locally and is located within Bluetooth range Which robot is that?
- milleramp 10mo agoDreame with Valetudo https://valetudo.cloud/pages/installation/dreame.html https://valetudo.cloud/pages/installation/dreame.html
- elaus 10mo agoI mean it's _every_ robot with valetudo, but I don't think any manufacturer sells their robots with valetudo preinstalled.
- thangalin 10mo agoNeato's D-Series Botvac just works (e.g., BVD8-SD/HP). No Bluetooth. No cloud. No Wi-Fi. Zero network connectivity required. Had mine about 10 years. Replaced the battery once, probably due for another one. Still cleans well. I don't understand the appeal of having local appliances bound to the fate of network services.
- ctz 10mo agoI have a Neato D650 which I assume meets that classification and is covered by the service withdrawal, it is now pretty degraded -- no notifications, no mapping, no keep-out zones. No notifications means if it gets stuck it stays there. No mapping means if it doesn't fully clean the space (eg, a door is closed) then I have no way of knowing without baby-sitting it. No keep-out zones means every clean involves carefully preparing the space to hang up trailing wires out of the way -- previously I just had some keep-outs near the wires and that worked perfectly. Without all these features I have stopped using it; it is quicker to just use a stick vacuum.
- stuaxo 10mo agoI've got a robot vac and only use it "manually" they do get stuck from time to time, but its just grab it and stick it down in whatever area. The house has stairs in bits anyway. If it was on a schedule it could only do the bit it was in if I left a door open, so why not just use it manually ? I have never let it on the WiFi.
- nicbou 10mo agoMy Roborock S5 or 6. I bought it from a stranger, put it on the floor and pressed the power button.
- sys_64738 10mo agoThere will eventually be a backlash to network attached hoovers or toasters that require AI keys to function. It always goes full circle.