You can if you have the parts (and the skills). I’ve just recently learned that technically you don’t even need the PCB and can use a USB UART directly on the vacuum’s pins.
However, I don’t plan to become part of a community where the only place to discuss issues is a centralized walled garden which I got banned from and I can’t recommend anyone else does either.
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He is/was sending out little PCBs you can use to connect to your vacuum and flash Valetudo. The way this works is you’re supposed to contact him via Telegram and send him a prepaid postal label for him to send the package to you.
I contacted him and told him I was interested but uncomfortable with handing over my address data to Telegram over a non-E2EE connection and asked him if he was using Signal or another E2EE messenger we could use instead. When he said no I asked him if we then at least could use Telegram’s Private Chat feature, but he declined again (I forgot the exact reasoning, something about the chat not being synced between clients and he needs the label on another client that he wasn’t currently on or something. I remember it being a legitimate reason). After that little dialog he suddenly sent me instructions on how to refund the postal label, told me I was wasting his time and immediately blocked me (just in his chats, not the community yet). Keep in mind this is from the guy claiming to free your vacuums from privacy invading China cloud vendors.
After that I went to one of the community channels, told them in the chat that Hypfer blocked me and if someone else was willing to send me a PCB. He then started to argue with me publically (I don’t remember what was being said, but for someone whos time I was supposedly wasting he suddenly was very talkative) which I ended by saying I wasn’t interested in arguing with him and I only came to ask for a PCB from the other people in the channel. He then blocked me from that channel. Then I went to another one to complain about this behavior which was immediately followed by a block in every available Telegram channel.TL;DR: Guy creating non-privacy invasive firmware server alternative uses privacy invasive platform to manage community, blocks you when asking for E2EE alternative and gets mad when you tell his community how he acts.
All to say this is a really sad state of affairs. Valetudo could be a really great project with many many more users if it was just managed by someone with a slightly different mindset.
Think of Valetudo as a privately-owned public garden.
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But, at the end of the day, you must understand that it is still privately-owned. You’re on someone else’s property over which you have no power at all. You will have to show the necessary respect. And - most importantly - you need to understand that letting you into this garden is a gift and should be treated as such.
Keep in mind the community is solely managed on Telegram and the founder is a bit hard to bear sometimes. He banned me from all channels over a the tiniest little argument and so I can’t interact with and get any support from the community. Made me decide to not flash Valetudo on my Dreame and just keep it offline.
Good thing is this was the last reason for me to use Telegram at all and so I was able to finally delete my account there for good.
If you completely disable transcoding maybe.
I doubt it even has H265 decoding support. I don’t see a viable media player there.
Lemmchen@feddit.orgto Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•Should i switch to linux? please tell me why or why not.English42·3 days agoIf you want to know my honest opinion then instead of focusing on the operating system you should focus on the hardware. An old inefficient low-clocked six core server CPU is no match for a RTX 3060.
Lemmchen@feddit.orgto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Is there anything torrent-like, decentralized way of finding new stuff ?English1·3 days agoThen you probably want Frost via Hyphanet. Or maybe IPFS.
Lemmchen@feddit.orgto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Is there anything torrent-like, decentralized way of finding new stuff ?English2·3 days agoHeavily gated? What’s heavily gated about Gnutella?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file-sharing_applications
Lemmchen@feddit.orgto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Is there anything torrent-like, decentralized way of finding new stuff ?English2·4 days agoJust search for keywords in p2p filesharing networks?
Isn’t this more of a being 50 thing?
Still the best that could realistically happen.
Lemmchen@feddit.orgto Linux@lemmy.ml•x264 AV1 file, vlc and mpv on debian 12.11, problems to play it, what to do?English1·10 days agoDoes mediainfo give any useful insight?
Lemmchen@feddit.orgto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•I self hosted a World of Warcraft server.English2·12 days agoIs that still done with that Mangos software?
OP’s link works in Raccoon, the threadiverse one doesn’t.
Lemmchen@feddit.orgto Europe@feddit.org•Ukraine to launch Starlink mobile internet in 2026, becoming Europe's first, Kyivstar saysEnglish10·14 days agoWhat? Why!?
Lemmchen@feddit.orgto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What is the best way to sync images to my NAS?English6·15 days agoSet up a “global” ignore file that gets synced between devices. Call it
.stignoreglobal
for example and and change the.stignore
file (which doesnt get synced) on every device to only include. Now your ignore state gets synced between devices and you can make changes from anywhere.
Mine looks like this:
// Incomplete Downloads *.part *.crdownload // OS-generated files desktop.ini Thumbs.db // Cache cache spotifycache // Unity analytics Unity // LineageOS updater org.lineageos.updater // No read access :( /Android/{data,obb}
You can learn how to write one yourself here: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html
Other stuff:
- On Android I use this: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/
- Some Info on how you can reduce battery usage: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/blob/main/wiki/Info-on-battery-optimization-and-settings-affecting-battery-usage.md
- Make sure SyncThing is excluded from your phone’s battery optimizations (varies by vendor).
- To save on mobile bandwidth I have it set up to only sync on WiFi.
- You can set up a symmetric key (basically a password) and sync your stuff to a friends instance. Your friend will not be able to read the data without the key (make sure it’s a long random string). This also helps if you’re running a SyncThing instance on a VPS for example.
Lemmchen@feddit.orgto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What is the best way to sync images to my NAS?English12·16 days agoWhen SyncThing is correctly configured (battery optimizations , etc.), you won’t have any issues. (I’ve been using SyncThing for many many years now.)
Lemmchen@feddit.orgto Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•THE FINALS announced they are updating to a kernel-based anti-cheat, and despite the change, they will continue to support Linux/ProtonEnglish3·21 days agoI’ve got over 1000 hours in the game. I can’t stop. Please send help.
https://valetudo.cloud/pages/installation/dreame.html
Click on “If you know what you’re doing, here’s the relevant pinout for you (click me)” and you’ll see the pinout. Keep in mind: