iRobot Roomba (WiFi) Support

ttaidapos · October 3, 2017, 2:23am

I tried posting the errors else where as well with no response, any help would be greatly appreciated.

norien · October 15, 2017, 1:58pm

did you get it working, I’m hitting the same roadblock.

ttaidapos · October 15, 2017, 4:48pm

No luck at all. I even tried upgrading python from 3.4 to 3.6.3 with no luck. By that I mean i don’t even have the getpassword.py file anymore but I do have the roomba.py. That didn’t work either.

jurgenweber · October 24, 2017, 4:51am

yes, While it works great I find the map does not work when the cleaning job is started with HASS over using the official app.

I would primarily love it if the map worked.

Thanks

robwolff3 · January 19, 2018, 5:54pm

I was able to get my roomba 890 blid and password by using:

pip install git+https://github.com/pschmitt/roombapy@python3-fixes
roomba-getpassword

Darbos · January 21, 2018, 8:34am

Has anyone been able to get the map into HA? Im using a 980 and have it integrated with HA, but I dont see how to get the maps?

ttaidapos · January 22, 2018, 4:02am

Still can’t get this to work.

installed pip
installed git
sudo git clone https://github.com/NickWaterton/Roomba980-Python.git
cd roomba
python roomba.py

and i get the following…
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “roomba.py”, line 25, in
from roomba.password import Password
File “/home/homeassistant/Roomba980-Python/roomba/roomba.py”, line 25, in
from roomba.password import Password
ImportError: No module named password

anthosz · January 2, 2020, 4:00pm

1 year after… Has anyone been able to get the map into HA? ^^

gotschi · January 4, 2020, 12:38am

nope, but I just export the position coordinates to a file via automation and setup a generic camera fetching a php script which returns a generated image and draws rectangles/lines on the coordinates.
It’s far from perfect but gets the job done

- alias: Locate Roomba every 2 seconds
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
    platform: time_pattern
    seconds: /2
  condition:
    condition: state
    entity_id: vacuum.roomba
    state: 'on'
  action:
    - service: vacuum.locate
      entity_id: vacuum.roomba

- alias: Log Roomba Position
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
      platform: state
      entity_id: "sensor.roomba_location"
  action:
    - service: notify.roombafile
      data_template: 
        message: "{{ states.vacuum.roomba.attributes.position }}"

- alias: Clean Roomba Log
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: vacuum.roomba
    from: 'off'
    to: 'on'
  action:
    - service: homeassistant.turn_on
      entity_id: switch.clear_roomba_log

anthosz · January 4, 2020, 6:59pm

Thank’s! Is it possible to have also the php script and all resources or the github repository if exist? I will try this method =)

gotschi · January 5, 2020, 3:28pm

sorry I don’t have a repo for this but you can download the code here:
https://gitlab.com/uploads/-/system/personal_snippet/1927224/47310dbe41a015d8daf0dd807bee8ec4/roomba.zip

I made some refinements so it looks nicer

anthosz · January 6, 2020, 6:30am

Thank you very much! I will test it and tell you

gerosaf · January 15, 2020, 4:04pm

HI @gotschi,
I am analyzing your code and trying to adapt to my environment: HASSIO running in Docker on Synology NAS (Intel Celeron).
Could you explain the line “http://phpserver/roomba/image.php” ?
I guess I need my homeassistant docker container to be able to run PHP, am I correct ?
How do I “install” PHP in homeassistant?
Will a precompiled static php binary work and where do I find it?

Thanks!

gotschi · January 15, 2020, 5:10pm

Hi @gerosaf!

yes that is correct, you need a php interpeter running on your host to process the image.php script.
so the easiest way would be to just run a nginx-php container and put the image.php in it’s www_root. You don’t installl it in Hass, there is no php addon available I believe.

This way you can call it like http://nasip:nginxport/image.php

gerosaf · January 16, 2020, 9:52am

Hi @gotschi ,
thanks for answering!

I am having a look at the PHP script, I am not a programmed, so, sorry for noob question…
I sometime get a full-white camera, so I am troubleshooting

Do I need to qualify this “http://hassio.io/local…” link in the image.php at line 15?
$coords = file_get_contents(“http://hass.io/local/roomba/roomba.log?v=”.time());

Same at line 143 for
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,“http://hass.io/api/states/vacuum.roomba”);

Thanks!

gotschi · January 16, 2020, 12:15pm

yes you need to adapt this to the HA containers ip - or just use 172.17.0.1:8123

gerosaf · January 16, 2020, 1:22pm

Understood, thanks.
First link is now fixed and tested ok.
I still get a “401: Unauthorized”
testing “curl http://172.17.0.1:8123/api/states/vacuum.roomba” in the container and even in my browser with “http://192.168.10.2:8123/api/states/vacuum.roomba”

I am not sure HA is exposing /api/states… or maybe a permission problem?
Thanks in advance for helping!

pnakashian · January 17, 2020, 2:19am

try
curl -X GET “http://172.17.0.1:8123/api/states/vacuum.roomba”
-H ‘Authorization: Bearer YOUR_LONG_LIVED_TOKEN’

you’ll have to create long lived token in

http://your_HA_IP:8123/profile

at the bottom of page click create token.
copy that long-lived token key, save it somewhere
HA won’t show it again. that key needs to be in
the curl command. I also put that in image.php
right after Bearer

gerosaf · January 17, 2020, 5:00pm

Hi @pnakashian, hi @gotschi,
you got the point! I solved the permission problem, thank you!

Unfortunately it seems my NGINX-PHP container is missing some functions:

PHP message: PHP "Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function imagecreatetruecolor(
) in /data/wwwroot/image.php:50

What would you suggest ?

gerosaf · January 17, 2020, 5:43pm

Got it working using a different NGINX-PHP container.
I am now rescaling my default FLOOR image.

Thanks a lot!