I'd love to have a robot vacuum but all I checked last time had wifi connectivity and advanced sensors to build accurate map of our home uploaded to an app of my phone with who knows what capabilities. Some even had camera. All they missed some mic to listen in on us, however since some are connected to Alexa that is a wish fulfilled for many.
- Alexa, wipe up that spill in the bedroom.
- Sorry, that requires deep clean, but you had some credit left on your second credit card so I ordeered a deep clening service for Tuesday when you are away.
FYI there is https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo which acts as a replacement of the cloud service. I'd you buy one of the supported devices you root it to point to the Valetudo server (which you run yourselves). You can then put the robot on its own WiFi without Internet access if you want to be even more secure.
But I am just a user and this is just a vacuum. I rather focus on other than jumping hoops for the products of the indecent manufactureres. While saving a lot of money as bonus. I think I will cope without it.
no need to root it if you have a decent "router" stack. fortigates can re-route even hard-coded IPs to internal services ;-)
i am sure others can too, i just know we had to use the fortigate to fix a hard-coded IP that was breaking something. i think it was a fog device, even.
Some of these vacuums will work without the Wi-Fi. You will have to do without automatic features, for example you have to push the button every time to get it to start, but if you just want it to do the whole area it will run and return to base. It's enough for my area
- Alexa, wipe up that spill in the bedroom.
- Sorry, that requires deep clean, but you had some credit left on your second credit card so I ordeered a deep clening service for Tuesday when you are away.