How I set up room-cleaning automation with Google Home, #home-assistant and Xiaomi vacuum cleaner
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I use Home-Assistant running in a Raspberry Pi as the main hub to automate all my smart home devices. It is set up to connect to my Xiaomi Mi Roborock vacuum cleaner, with a basic interface to start, pause and dock the cleaner. The Mi Home app is more advance, able to map the plan of my home as it scans and cleans the place.The vacuum cleaner works really well to clean the whole house automatically. But if I want to just clean a particular room at home, I have to use the Mi Home app to draw a rectangle (zone) around the room in the house plan to start the zone cleaning. The app does not save this, so each time I want to clean a different room, I have to repeat the same steps.Wouldn’t it be great if I can automate this? This post made me realized it may not be difficult to achieve (...)