Roomba (Old Model 600) and thinkingsync - Local support

Feature Requests
1

Thinkingsync modules are working with the thinkingsync server.
Sadly, thinkingsync.com has became unreliable and it is hard to have some sort of support.
I have two roomba 600 serie with WiFi modules added.

I Know it is possible to command them with commands like:

http://192.168.188.51/command.json?
command=find_me
command=clean
command=spot
command=dock
command=max

and reading the status of Roomba with:
http://192.168.188.51/status.json

I get:

{
  "action" : "status",
  "result" : "success",
  "status" : {
    "name" : "Roomba620",
    "battery_charge" : 100,
    "capacity" : "2696",
    "cleaner_state" : "st_base_trickle",
 	"cleaning" : "0",
    "schedule_serial_number" : "0",
    "near_homebase" : "0"
  }
}

Would be great to bypass the server (it’s down right now!) and to have full local control of Roomba.

Thanks

2

I have a thinking cleaner also, but isn’t locale adressed already in ha?

3

@Martinvdm, I don’t think so.
Yesterday both my Roomba disappeared from my UI.
A quick check to the local IPs revealed that they were online and ready to the commands but the led was orange instead of green.
I checked the site thinkingsync.com and it was down (like now!) so I assume that the HA component works with their cloud.

Do you see your roomba in the UI, right now?

4

you are right. HA is using pythingcleaner.py which is using the cloud api
https://github.com/TheRealLink/pythinkingcleaner/blob/master/pythinkingcleaner/thinkingcleaner.py

But i have opened an issue a couple weeks ago: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues/12822#issuecomment-377970379. In this issue user sfiorini has changed the discovery url. Perhaps this solves youre issue that the device is not showing any more because of the discovery.

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5

Thanks!
I just modified the pythinkingcleaner/discovery.py and I can see my roombas!

Thank you very much! :grinning:

7

what have you changed exactly?

8

/pythinkingcleaner/discovery.py

Just fill the array devices with your roomba ip.

It needs ip and a rubbish string:
devices.append(ThinkingCleaner(device['local_ip'], device['uuid']))