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Amazon terminates iRobot deal, Roomba maker to lay off 31% of staff::Amazon and iRobot said regulatory concerns made it impossible for the deal to move forward, sending the Roomba makers' shares plummeting.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (22 children)

Oh, I might consider buying one again now.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (18 children)

Save yourself the headache and get something that works locally and doesn’t rely on their cloud and app.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Roomba uses local push in HA.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I didn’t realize that so I just went to check on mine and the integration is errored out lol. A quick look on the forums shows that multiple people are having the same issue. When mine was working, I only had a few options like start and go home so it wasn’t that helpful anyways. The roomba app did update with room mapping abilities but I was never able to get that information into home assistant so my only option was a full clean. Maybe it’s changed since mine stopped working but I can’t wait to get something that’s better supported and put this one upstairs where it only has a few rooms to clean.

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