Hi, I purchased a Tapo RV50 but the generic cards for other vacuum robots doesnt work as expected. I would like to know if anyone has added this vacuum robot to HA and what card are using for?
Thanks in advance.
Hi! I'm looking at the exact same vacuum and ran into your post. Could you share how you got the RV50 into Home Assistant, did you use the Matter integration, a custom component, or the cloud-based Tapo integration?
And does the rest work for you (status, battery, start/stop, mapping, room cleaning)? Trying to figure out what's actually possible before I commit. Thanks a lot!
I can't answer OP's card question at the moment but since there's very little info regarding the RV50 at the moment and this seems the most relevant thread regarding RV50 (and it currently has a pretty sweet deal on official store), I want to share my initial experience since I received this vacuum today:
I chose not to pursue the "matter" part, but rather focus on official integration/direct polling. I did one-time setup through official app, kasa-python was unable to connect to TPAP protocol. However, this RV30 targeted project works perfectly through command line (rooms,mapping,pause,resume,status,battery,...), in HA it seems to work decently for sensors, although resume does not seem to work:
I will be investigating further the next few days and will try to update this post or reply here, but wanted to share my initial (very promising) findings already.
You do need to provide cloud credentials, but from what I understand at this point, other than initial setup, the communication happens fully local