Roborock will only vacuum the living room

[MrWyck (Rob)]

Heya everyone - so, I have a Roborock S7 vacuum, it works great in the Roborock app - but if I try to have the assistant in HA do it, it tells me it can ONLY vacuum the living room (where it was located). I just upgraded to the Roborock Q35a, and I have the same problem. In the Roborock app, it works just fine - can do the entire house, or a specific room. But the assistant in HA insists that it can only do the room the vacuum is located/docked in (the living room).

Anyone know how to fix this? If it matters, I am using the official integration (as far as I know - I am still new to all this)

[Edwin_D]

The official integration has instructions how to vacuum other rooms. You can create scripts for those. If you want to use voice, you can ask to start those scripts.

You can also create routines in the roborock app. Those show up as buttons in the integration, and you can use voice to activate those buttons.

Roborock

And last but not least, I wrote some helpers to start room cleaning from the dashboard:

Start Roborock Routine / Room / Zone Cleaning with Press on Button Card

I looked for a good way to allow for easy room cleaning. I did not like the hardcoded rooms most solutions called for. Unfortunately, the action to get the room numbers is not easily suited to find a segment based on the room name. So I created a sensor that calls the action to get the map and reverses the loopup so you can find segment numbers. I also created a select entity that allows you to pick a room on the current floor. Then I created a script to use these. Note that the room select en…