I'm a bit concerned by that as well. Especially for robots with integrated cameras. I don't mind LIDAR sensors as much. Sure, they might leak my floor plan, but I would accept that risk. Unfortunately, it seems like most robot vacuums these days are Chinese. Especially if you want vacuum+mop combo with some nice features. (Whichever one I buy, I'll also be adding it to IoT VLAN. Separate them from the rest of my network).
Valetudo looks great! Bit hacky, but I should be able to manage. Also funny to read you're waiting for an IoT device to give up the ghost in order to buy a better alternative. Sounds familiar! Is that something universal for smart home owners? :D
That's a good point. The same content exists on multiple instances. I think Lemmy should set a canonical URL the HTML . The canonical URL of each post should point to the instance where a post originates from.
Seems like that is not implemented in Lemmy. Also checked Mastodon, and doesn't have a canonical tag either.
I've started using it a couple of weeks ago. For now, I'm having it capture emails with invoices and moving the PDFs to a folder in my Google Drive.
From my experience, the electricity consumption of e-bikes is low. We have a Babboe cargo bike and we drive 5km every day. I measure the electricity consumption of the charger, and it comes down to 0.5-1kWh per month. I assume regular e-bikes have an even lower consumption.
I live in a small town in Belgium and we have a saying that says: "there's no bad weather, only bad clothing". Granted, the weather here is mild. Doesn't get too cold, not too hot (except for this week). We do get a lot of rain though, but nothing that a pair of rain trousers and coat can't handle ;) Biking infrastructure is something else though... It's far from perfect over here.
Check the updated post. It's running on a dedicated server hosted by Hetzner. Specs are high-end: "AMD EPYC 7502P 32 Cores “Rome” CPU and 128GB RAM."
Shoutout to @[email protected] for a very detailed and helpful answer. For some reason I can't reply to your message, so I'm creating a new comment instead. Hope you see it ;)
Wow, thanks a lot for your detailed answer and suggestions. You kind of convinced me to go for Roborock!
The fact that local control works (after cloud setup) is great. I read somewhere that the robot will reboot if it's been disconnected from the cloud for a long time, but that's fine for now. Good to know that there's a backup solution in the rare case my internet connection goes down.
I hope one day someone will make a great vacuum robot with an open-source firmware. Imagine having something like ESPHome for vacuum robots. Wet dream!