Ecovacs Deebot, Bumper and HA

Hardware
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My mother in law bought us an Ecovacs Deebot N8. I’ve installed the Deebot 4 Home Assistant integration from HACS (the @DeebotUniverse one) and can see the same details as in the Ecovacs app (including the maps which is nice). However I prefer not to use cloud services if I can avoid them, so was interested in Bumper.

Has anyone here managed to get Bumper working as an add-on for HA? I think I would like to go that route, as I don’t have additional resources to run Docker 24/7.

Any other thoughts from anyone using Bumper today?

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Hi @dunxd. Did you have any issues installing via HACS? I added but get no option to Configure nd therefore never get the entity to appear. I did have the earlier fork so wondering if it’s an “HA hangover”!

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I had no issue installing from HACS and can add the entity fine.

Have you tried a full reboot of your HA box? I seem to recall doing that around the time of installing D4A but can’t be certain I did so for this purpose.

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hhmmm. Not tried that. It’s running as a Docker container and due some upgrades so I’ll roll that in and check it. Thanks for coming back to me

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Hi @dunxd, I am in a similar situation and wanted to ask if you were successful getting the bumper working?

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I never got round to it. I don’t use the robot vacuum that often. It loses its map too frequently to do any kind of automation. I don’t think that would be any different with bumper. Maybe I’ll get interested enough to give it a go.