Nice to see they’ve made some great progress on the application side, had seen the firmware component years ago. I simply just reach under my cabinet and press the start button on my 1st gen Xiaomi vacuum but looks like it’s time to flash it.
It’s crazy to see how xiaomi got it right with lidar from the beginning. I’ve looked for upgrades over the years and the cost effective variants have all been incremental upgrades in firmware and performance or just straight downgrades with things like mopping.
If anyone is interested in these things mine has been great for 5 years now and would recommend a lidar based one at a minimum. Got a Wyze for my now wife on sale for $75 (a steal) 1-2 years ago and it’s a cost reduced update of mine but performs just as well as mine and I think may use US servers (being a US company?)
I bought my first unit maybe 5 years ago, I didn't know such a thing as valetudo existed. After I found out, although my unit was supported the process was quite involved so I never did it.
A few weeks ago I bought another unit, it's not supported by valetudo yet but the previous model was. So my thought was that soon enough this new will be supported as well; they don't really seem to be super different when it comes to features (though there were some features I needed, which is why I got the new model instead of the older one).
At this point, I am willing to sacrifice privacy for the cleaning.
If anyone is interested in these things mine has been great for 5 years now and would recommend a lidar based one at a minimum. Got a Wyze for my now wife on sale for $75 (a steal) 1-2 years ago and it’s a cost reduced update of mine but performs just as well as mine and I think may use US servers (being a US company?)