Hi everybody,
I have a Combo 705 Roomba, it didn’t work with the built-in iRobot integration, and it didn’t work with Rest980 either. Reading the docs for dorita980/rest980 I discovered that from Firmware version 4 Roombas are now “Matter-first” and don’t work with dorita. Despair! But… do not despair! It’s actually pretty simple to get it connected through Matter if you have the HA companion app!
Here’s what I did:
- Open the “Roomba Home” iPhone app, press the account icon “top left” and select “Connected Services”
- Select the “Matter” option and hold the phone close to the vacuum
- The vacuum beeps, I pressed something and it beeped again. After a while I got a QR code and an activation code, which I copied to the clipboard.
- Open the Home Assistant companion app on the iPhone, select “Add Integration” and then “Add Matter Device”
- The companion app turns on the camera and asks you to scan the QR code, but it also allows you to paste in the activation code as well if you click on the “other options” text. So, paste in the activation code you copied earlier.
- Done! The Vacuum appears on the main HA UI, I can automate it, see the battery level, and so on.
Hope this helps people with newer botvacs!