Creation of Vorwerk Kobold Component

Feature Requests
62

The integration currently does not support zone cleaning for VR300. I’m working on that, and got it to work with the old version of the integration through hard coding my map id.

Unfortunately, through my extensive testing, my robot now does not save any floor plans anymore and I can’t continue developing. It also says, that my robot is linked to another account, which is just not true…

If anyone knows, how to contact Vorwerk or Neato to reset everything with my account, please let me know. I already resetted the robot.

63

I have a vr200, no service calls work for me. Vacuum.start, vacuum.stop nothing. Only sersors work well

64

Hello. Thanks @trunneml for your great work. Unfortunately i have the same issue with the vr200 as @Staff19. I had to install the integration manually (copy files from github). The integration showed up and i was able to log in with my email and the code. But the service calls on the vacuum card don’t work. Any suggestions?

65

Sorry didn’t see the post. Have you tried the latests version?

66

Thank you very much for the reply! With the new Version 0.9.3 it works very fine.
:smile:

67

Just wanted to say thanks. I hadn’t played with my VR200 for a long time and now I found that it is integrated again in HA.
Everything worked fine for me:

  • added the repository address in HACS
  • restarted HA
  • took some time to understand what I had actually done with that :wink:
  • then I read somewhere that an Integration should have appeared but it didn’t
  • …it didn’t until I hit refresh on the webpage: then Vorwerk appeared in the list of available integrations
  • entered the email address of my Vorwerk account and received the code from MyKobold
  • than I found the VR200 being added as 1 device and 3 entities (status, battery and a schedule switch)
  • the commands (to clean, pause, stop,…) actually appear when clicking on the status entity from lovelace

Any idea on how can I extract the commands and make them as independent entities?

Thanks again: great job!

68

What is the HACS repository address? I added it manually, but want to do it via HACS.

69

I can’t find your integration in HACS? How can I find it?
It sounds like a great job and I like to enjoy it :grin:

70

Got it!
Just add repository of the gut hub page :blush:

71

Wow! That was easy! Really great job! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

Update: :frowning:
One of my robots was offline … now the integration stays in an error, but all robots are online again …

Any ideas to solve this problem?

72

Since yesterday I didn’t use the service for automation but due to the ‘great’ devs at Vorwerk I decided to start the cleaning with an automation.
The problem: it doesn’t work. There is no error nothing but the Kobold don’t start the automation :frowning:

- id: 'kobold_start'
  alias: kobold_start
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: 08:00
  condition: []
  action:
  - service: vorwerk.custom_cleaning
    data:
      entity_id: vacuum.kobold
  mode: single

The trace:

Triggered by the time at 4. November 2021, 08:00:00

Call service vorwerk.custom_cleaning

Finished at 4. November 2021, 08:52:02 (runtime: 2.71 seconds)

But nothing happened. Any idea?

73

Hi, the integration stops working … i add vorwerk a 2nd time and all i got ist this:

Failed to connect to robots: Unable to communicate with robot
Source: custom_components/vorwerk/__init__.py:130
Integration: Vorwerk Kobold

any Idea, how to debug ths s*it?

74

Normally that happens when the robot lost its wifi connection. Did you check the wifi state shown in the display of your robot? Is the vorwerk app working?

75

I think custom cleaning needs some parameters. Did you try the home assistant built in service vacuum.start?

76

hi … I have 2 robost.
The VR200 is offline and the VR300 is Online in the app.
I delete the Integration and readd it, then retsart HA with the same result.
I got no Connection.

77

Yes, I did and it works :slight_smile: But anyway, it would be fine to understand, why the custom one doesn‘t work :slight_smile:
Any idea?

78

Take a look here, it’s independent from this integration/component, it’s the standard way in HA to get some more log messages. :slight_smile: Not that I’m saying that will get you any further… :smiley:

80

Hi,

I created a new minor Update. Still waiting for integration into Home Assistant core. :frowning:

May be it is better to reintegrate the authentication into the existing neato component.

81

Since this last update there is no functionality on my VR200.
The sensors are all OK but there is no action on my automations. Even when I hit the start cleaning at the device in HA there is no action.

Please help or provide the old version. At the moment for me it useless :frowning:

82

I rolled back to 0.9.3 and everything works fine. So, I assume there is a bug in 0.9.4