Samsung Powerbot VR7000 series

Just sharing a lovelace card I put together for my Samsung Powerbot VR7000. It’s very basic but works for me, looks good on mobile as well.

First you need to connect the Smartthings Classic app with the HA integrations, create a scene for start auto-cleaning, and another one for return to charge. I called mine “start cleaning” and “stop cleaning” respectively.

I also used text-element custom card for the Status: prefix and the grey bar at the bottom, however you could do that with the state-label under it and set it as “pointer-events: none” to avoid misclicks when clicking on the run or home buttons.

I cropped down an image from google images, but you can use whatever picture you want, even a transparent image if you like.

VR9000-lovelace

type: picture-elements
image: /local/powerbot-4.jpg
elements:
  - type: 'custom:text-element'
    text: 'Status:'
    style:
      left: 0%
      bottom: 0%
      font-size: 16px
      line-height: 200%
      pointer-events: none
      color: white
      background-color: 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3)'
      width: 100%
      transform: initial
      padding: 8px
  - type: state-label
    entity: sensor.robot_vacuum_robot_cleaner_movement
    style:
      left: 10%
      bottom: 0%
      font-size: 16px
      text-transform: capitalize
      line-height: 200%
      color: white
      transform: initial
      padding: 0px 8px
  - type: icon
    icon: 'mdi:play'
    tap_action:
      action: call-service
      service: scene.turn_on
      service_data:
        entity_id: scene.start_cleaning
    style:
      bottom: 3%
      right: 10%
      transform: initial
      color: white
      line-height: 32px
  - type: icon
    icon: 'mdi:home'
    tap_action:
      action: call-service
      service: scene.turn_on
      service_data:
        entity_id: scene.stop_cleaning
    style:
      bottom: 3%
      right: 3%
      transform: initial
      color: white
      line-height: 32px
  - type: state-label
    entity: sensor.robot_vacuum_battery
    style:
      bottom: 45%
      left: 6%
      pointer-events: none
      transform: initial
      font-size: 16px
      text-shadow: 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8) 0px 0px 2px'
      line-height: 200%
  - type: state-icon
    entity: sensor.robot_vacuum_battery
    style:
      bottom: 47%
      left: 0%
      transform: scale(1.0)
      '--paper-item-icon-color': 'rgb(0,0,0)'
  - type: state-label
    entity: sensor.robot_vacuum_robot_cleaner_turbo_mode
    style:
      bottom: 35%
      left: 6%
      pointer-events: none
      transform: initial
      text-transform: capitalize
      font-size: 16px
      text-shadow: 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8) 0px 0px 2px'
      line-height: 200%
  - type: state-icon
    entity: sensor.robot_vacuum_robot_cleaner_turbo_mode
    icon: 'mdi:fan'
    style:
      bottom: 37%
      left: 0%
      transform: scale(1.0)
      '--paper-item-icon-color': 'rgb(0,0,0)'
  - type: state-label
    entity: sensor.robot_vacuum_robot_cleaner_cleaning_mode
    style:
      bottom: 25%
      left: 6%
      pointer-events: none
      transform: initial
      text-transform: capitalize
      font-size: 16px
      text-shadow: 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8) 0px 0px 2px'
      line-height: 200%
  - type: state-icon
    entity: sensor.robot_vacuum_robot_cleaner_cleaning_mode
    icon: 'mdi:robot-vacuum-variant'
    style:
      bottom: 27%
      left: 0%
      transform: scale(1.0)
      '--paper-item-icon-color': 'rgb(0,0,0)'
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I went a bit further and added some webhooks, with IFTTT and the smartthings API to remotely start/stop cleaning; particularly when I leave my house.

I’ve found it incredibly frustrating with the android app(s); as Samsung repeatedly keeps replacing them with a new, but worse version, or insisting the app won’t run on my low spec but new phone (it does however if I install it through the samsung app store).
This makes the first setup a stressful experience; but once it’s up… useful.

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Ultimately my Powerbot died and I replaced it with a Xiaomi S5, running Valetudo RE. Flawless integration and I’ve never looked back. The smartthings app and it’s difficulty to keep it running without interference had me very much over dealing with it by the time it finally died.

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Hi
how did you make the scenes

I think you might be onto something, Keyvyn.