Emperor, 10 months ago

Valetudo:

Because Valetudo is not a custom firmware, it cannot change anything about how the robot operates.

What it can do however is protect your data and enable you to connect your robot to your home automation system without having to detour through a vendor cloud, which, apart from the whole data problematic, might not be reachable due to your internet connection being down or some servers in the datacenter being on fire.

Not having to leave your local network of course also benefits the latency of commands, status reports etc.

It works with a lot of different models including quite a few from Xiaomi, Dreame and Roborock.

I have the Dreame F9 and, while I haven’t done this yet, it’s on my to-do list, which should move everything off the Xiaomi app. I’d definitely be interested in hearing from anyone who has already done this.