Roborock Vacuum delay

Third party integrations
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Hi everyone.
So I followed a few guides here and on reddit and are almost done creating a “garage” for my Roborock S5 Max. It’s hidden under my kitchen cabinet and is opened via 2 servos running on ESP. All that is fine, but I wanted it to open when the vacuum starts cleaning. As of now, I use the ‘Xiaomi Vacuum Map’ card (https://github.com/PiotrMachowski/lovelace-xiaomi-vacuum-map-card). to control the vacuum.

I’ve made an automation that tells the servos to open when the vacuum starts cleaning. But that is too late, as it takes a full 10sec for the servos to start opening, after I hear the vacuum start. I think it is because Roborock is too slow to update it’s status,

So my question is: Is there a way I can delay the vacuum, or a way to send the status to the ESP faster? I did think of making an automation ie. “Clean” that would first open the doors, and then start the vacuum, but then the problem is that I cannot use the Vacuum card add-on to select Zone, full, room etc.

I hope someone can help.

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Did you get a solution for this?
I have the same issue.

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Hi. I actually (sort of) did.

For a long time, I only started the vacuum via Home Assistant Automations, which allowed me to include a delay before the vaccum started. But now, I have recently changed a lot of things in the vacuum garage, and used that opportunity to include a Break Beam Sensor in the garage. It is mounted just where the vacuum sits in the dock, which means that it detects the moment the vacuum leaves the dock. Just after the vacuum leaves, it starts to turn around, which gives the actuator long enough time to open the door. This also means that the automation for closing the door also is bound to the break beam sensor, which is very fast at detecting that the vacuum has docked.

I hope this helps a bit

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