Litter Robot: turn on and turn off command

Feature Requests
1

It would be nice, if we where able over Home Assitant to turn off and turn on the robot. The night cyclus is not so much flexible because of the forced 8 hour time limit.

The api from litter-robot is able to do this.

2

You can already do that!

Just call the vacuum domain’s turn_off service from an automation like this:

service: vacuum.turn_off
target:
  entity_id: vacuum.litter_robot_litter_box

Or if you want to have an entity that reflects the on/off status, you can create a template switch like this:

switch:
  - platform: template
    switches:
      litter_robot_on_off:
        value_template: "{{ not is_state('vacuum.litter_robot_litter_box', 'off') }}"
        turn_on:
          service: vacuum.turn_on
          target:
            entity_id: vacuum.litter_robot_litter_box
        turn_off:
          service: vacuum.turn_off
          target:
            entity_id: vacuum.litter_robot_litter_box
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3

@PerseusX works awesome. Many thanks! :slight_smile:

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4

How about the reset button? Sometimes even turning on and off the device won’t solve the issue and I have to go and manually press the “reset” button on the device? Is there a way to call this via HA?

5

I’ve not found one. Unless it exists in the Whisker app itself, it probably isn’t possible.

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6

probably they’ve intentionally not included this in the app idk

7

Yeah, I doubt it will ever be part of it. My guess is that it is a safety concern and that the reset should be physically pressed so that you actually have to see/inspect the robot.

8

I have mine on a smart plug. If it stays offline too long, I cut the power. Seriously shouldn’t happen on a $500 litter box, but the rest of it is so awesome so I just shut up and take it.

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9

Yes i had after sometimes recurring problems with the litter robot integration and i was some where so annoyed that i switched to a smart zigbee plug. With that the problems dissapeared.

10

Anyone know how to do firmware updates on these things?