Xiaomi Vacuum restore map (fw: 3.5.7_002008+)?

gibman · January 24, 2020, 9:52am

I just updated to the latest FW (3.5.7_002008) for my S50 unit.
On the main map I now have a button “edit map” clicking on it takes me to a list of max 2 backed up maps to choose from. Also possible to delete maps here.

From here I am able to click on a map and override the current one with my backed up map.
Quite useful.

I wonder if this (restore map function) can be triggered automatically from within HASS using a service call.

I haven’t sharkwired the communciation from the vacuum, cloud and my phone - so I have no idea what the payload looks like. But I bet it’s there.

The benefit with this feature would be to always revert to a well known backup copy of the map on each return to the docking bay.

This would fix the problem of having an actual map of closed doors which sadly happens a lot of the time.
This would also fix corrupted maps etc etc.

A good reference map would be one scanned with open doors… obviously

regards
gibman

pergola.fabio · January 24, 2020, 10:00am

I don’t have firmware yet, but also room feature is usefull, instead of using coordinate…

And also integration with Google assistant

gibman · January 24, 2020, 11:58am

Room feature is already supported in hass.io.
Havent tested it though.

Look in this sub forum for details

gibman · March 21, 2020, 5:07pm

Still missing this feature.

Looking here, we have the vacuum protocol:

lots of API methods concerning MAP restore.
look for MAP*
eg. MAP_RECOVER recover_map

implemented calls can be seen here:

github.com

rytilahti/python-miio/blob/83f2ea178be0046193cc3b05a4c0b1f405805fe6/miio/vacuum.py#L544


def segment_clean(self, segments: List):
    """Clean segments.
    :param List segments: List of segments to clean: [16,17,18]"""
    return self.send("app_segment_clean", segments)

@command()
def get_room_mapping(self):
    """Retrieves a list of segments."""
    return self.send("get_room_mapping")

@command()
def get_backup_maps(self):
    """Get backup maps."""
    return self.send("get_recover_maps")

@command(click.argument("id", type=int))
def use_backup_map(self, id: int):
    """Set backup map."""
    click.echo("Setting the map %s as active" % id)
    return self.send("recover_map", [id])

here we can see the line : self.send(“recover_map”, [id])
So it needs a magic ID for the map.

using some appdaemon python like this yields nothing:
‘self.call_service(“vacuum/send_command”, entity_id = self._vacuum_cleaner, params = [1], command=“recover_map”)’

have anyone made this work ?

enjoysimpson · February 19, 2021, 11:45am

I try to bring up that topic again here:

gibman · February 26, 2021, 4:11pm

Since a few weeks now Ive been having great succes with just recovering the map each time the bot reaches its dock.So the map is clean for the next time.

in appdaemon i do something like this:
await self.call_service(“vacuum/send_command”, entity_id = self._vacuum_cleaner, params = [1], command=“recover_map”)

fokcuk · June 6, 2022, 9:36am

Hi everyone
Can you please help me understand on how to save and restore maps? My vacuum at times resets all the maps and need something that can be loaded from external storage