Not sure if one even exists, but if it does I figured you guys would know of one

I think a good place to start is by defining in what ways a “robot vacuum” isn’t private in the first place. What do they do that is not private? edit: looks like Mozilla’s “Privacy Not Included” website has some reviews for Robo Vacuums, that is a good place to start your research.

I got this recommended when asking around: Valetudo Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation

To my understanding some were mapping out floor plans and storing on the cloud unecnrypted (this may not be true as I’ve only just heard of this years ago). The more concerning one was one vendor recording audio and selling it to 3rd party. That’s 100% never going to be in my house. Thank you for t…

Unfortunately this is one of the common things with IoT devices, they do not give you enough to be able to host locally on site.

I’d like to share an interesting article that caught my eye: [image] Matic is a $1,795 robot vacuum for people concerned about privacy Relying on local processing, Matic can see your home and suck up liquid spills. Are we all just cleaning manually? Thoughts…

I’m a certified IoT hater in general (no smart-anything in my house except smartphones) but also I may be weird for finding vacuuming manually relaxing so this seems super expensive for not that much benefit Also it seems like the answer to the question in the title is yes lol

For those that actually wants a vacuum slave, there’s also this for cheaper [image] GitHub - Hypfer/Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling... Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation

+1 to Valetudo. I recently went through the process with the Dreame L10s Ultra and it was super straightforward. I ran into one small hiccup, but opened a ticket with the developer and they pushed a fix a couple days later. That being said, you have to want to use Valetudo, understand the consequen…

US$75/month is a pretty conservative estimate. I know a freelance housekeeper who earns $15/hour if I recall correctly, so that would only be 5 hours per month. A robot vacuum could be run much more for the flat cost of purchase (and relatively negligible power cost). As usual, however, the human wi…

[image] dumpster: are tracking dragnets robust enough to correlate the housekeeper’s location data with ownership/residence data of the address, and identify your employment of a freelance housekeeper? Probably, yes. I do wonder what the privacy implications of knowing someone’s housekeeper’…

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