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@VibeSurgeon@piefed.social

2026-09-23 05:23 UTC

Given that you are the author of the project, I do consider you the higher authority on what it can and cannot do. But to me, there’s a slight distinction to be made here - Valetudo allows you to directly control the robot from a server running locally on the robot, giving you the option to not interact with a cloud service in order to remotely control the robot vacuum. This doesn’t immediately imply that the robot is directly prevented from passing information to a cloud service - just that the cloud service does not have to be involved as a command proxy. The larger feature I was thinking of was not only serving a local server to allow commands to come in directly, but also actively prevent any outgoing connections from the robot vacuum to its manufacturers cloud. Again, you are the author - you know far better what Valetudo does and does not do, so your information weighs heavier here. I guess I can also mention that I will be pleasantly surprised if my Chinese robot vacuum has actually been prevented from logging any information back home as a part of me having run Valetudo for the past years.

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  • @Hypfer@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-09-23 05:45

    I wouldn’t recommend “taking my word for it” tbh. This is something not decided by authority of a person but authority of the code - and, in turn, authority of a pcap file.

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