Xiaomi Vacuum with Valetudo RE: How to MAP, Zoned Cleaning and Notifications with Home Assistant?

cirdanmiriel · January 21, 2022, 5:28pm

OMG! after hours and hours spent on searching how to integrate nicely my Valetudo RE into HA, your post felt like THE answer to me, literally! It’s the best and most useful way to do it IMHO, so many thanks!

However, I had some more confs to do to make it work so I’ll do my part and share it here in case others encounter the same problems:

First, I couldn’t “just” type my vacuum URL for the iFrame, because it would be http whereas my Home Assistant was in HTTPS (and that was not permitted by Home Assistant). So I had to add a proxy entry via Nginx to proxy_pass via https to the robot’s URL, not that difficult
BUT! by default Firefox wouldn’t let HomeAssistant display such iFrame, for security reason (it can be risky but here we know what we’re doing, so there are 2 headers to add to nginx to let it pass:

add_header X-Frame-Options "ALLOW-FROM <<YOUR_HA_HOSTNAME.TLD>>";
add_header Content-Security-Policy "frame-ancestors <<YOUR_HA_HOSTNAME.TLD>>";

It works! the iFrame is displayed… but the buttons doesn’t work and it seems to have some problems loading the data, F12 and Firefox Console logs that it cannot load wss://… so we need to add some more headers to allow webservices traffic, and now, it works purrrfectly!

Here is my nginx proxy (location) :

location / {
                proxy_read_timeout 300;
                proxy_connect_timeout 300;

                proxy_http_version 1.1;
                proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
                proxy_set_header Connection "Upgrade";
                proxy_set_header Host $host;

                add_header X-Frame-Options "ALLOW-FROM <<YOUR_HA_HOSTNAME.TLD>>";
                add_header Content-Security-Policy "frame-ancestors <<YOUR_HA_HOSTNAME.TLD>>";

                proxy_pass http://<<VACUUM_IP>>;
        }

Now that it works, I may have some tiny related question:

I have the Roborock 1st gen, and it is not possible to persist data, which means that each time the vacuum is launched, the map is resetted from scratch. If I stop before the end orsend it just for a spot cleaning, the map is then not completed which is not very nice… isn’t there any way to persist or force somehow these values?
Would it be possible through the Valetudo RE webapp iframed here to include some background image of the house (topview)?

Many thanks

DivanX10 · January 21, 2022, 6:48pm

Valetudo firmware has the ability to save the card, as well as quickly restore it. First, turn on the multicard mode. This mode is located: Settings => Web Interface => Multi-map mode enable. After you turn on the multicard mode, the “Save” and “Upload” lines will appear on the main page. Next, to build a map, run the vacuum cleaner and save the map. If the map is often lost, then enable the option to load the map automatically when returning to the base. There is an auto-upload of the map in the settings, then system parameters and enable auto-upload of the map

You can also look at the Valetudo RE Mapper addon

cirdanmiriel · January 22, 2022, 12:42pm

Indeed! thanks! it seems to work perfectly like that, awesome!

zerofull56 · January 10, 2023, 5:19pm

Hi everyone. I’m have problem with access to http web interface Valetudo in my HA server over https. I use NGNIX proxy manager add-on for access to HA from outside from my local net. And I’m don’t known right settings for “Location” in this add-on. Please, help me somebody…

Auden · September 29, 2023, 8:41pm

Hi,

I just installed Valeduto RE on my xiaomi vaccum. It workds flawless. mqtt ok.

Now, i want to display the card.

So I installed “Valetudo Vaccum camera” integration. It created “camera.aspiration_camera” entity.

Now, this is th card i want !

type: custom:xiaomi-vacuum-map-card
entity: vacuum.aspirateur
vacuum_platform: rand256/ValetudoRE
map_source:
  camera: camera.aspirateur_camera
calibration_source:
  camera: true
internal_variables:
  topic: valetudo/rockrobo
title: Carte aspiration

But, no map displayed, and the error messsage : “error calibration, check your configuration”.

No idea ? I forget a step ?
Thanks.

gsca075 · September 30, 2023, 5:53pm

Hello @Auden,
did you install the Veletudo Vacuum Camera?
till now I did work only with the Hypfer valetudo… can you let me know the version of the camera you are using please? eventually, can you check when in the drop down from the card there is your camera.aspirateur_camera and double check on the integration what is the camera entity created? I would work on it… if this is the camera you are using… you can open an issue or a discussion to include your vacuum. If you enable the debug of the integration it should collect additional data (if you use the last version of the camera there is zip file on the www folder) on this folder there should be also png snapshot_aspirateur.png that should tell you if the image was correctly decoded.

Auden · September 30, 2023, 8:49pm

Hello,
Yes, i installed Valetudo Vacuum camera, but the camera is empty

In Valetudo Vaccum Camera log :
“2023-09-30 22:43:16.718 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.valetudo_vacuum_camera.camera] Camera Starting up…” It’s the only info i’ve…

I’m lost

gsca075 · October 1, 2023, 6:37am

I see… the camera is normally decoding the data from the PNG that comes the Vacuum, it looks the ValetudoRe isn’t providing the topic… (valetudo/robotname/MapData/map-data-hass) but (valetudo/robotname/MapData/map). The integration decode the png data that comes with the Hypfer firmware are in the first topic… I do not see also the other controls of the robot or status of battery, and so on… on the device. actually I think there is also a map_data_parsed topic… I think it is possible to add the ValetudoRe to the supported vacuums… It would require some small adjustment (there is already the code to get this data out)… I will release a new version later today @Auden would you please transfer this discussion on the github site? If you have MQTT Explorer I think you can confirm there is a PNG on the valetudo/robotname/map topic… this would be really helping me to fix this and really appreciated so that also ValetudoRe firmware is supported from the integration. Thanks a lot for the confirmation in advance…

gsca075 · October 1, 2023, 11:39am

@Auden can’t warranty it will work, as stated before the integration was developed for Hypfer firmware anyhow when the data on the PNG includes also the json file as per in original one… the camera now should get the correct topic to get the image data. V1.4.4 is released

by the way if it shouldn’t work and you are using ValetudoRE https://github.com/PiotrMachowski/lovelace-xiaomi-vacuum-map-card/blob/master/docs/templates/rand256ValetudoRe.md

Auden · October 1, 2023, 6:40pm

Hello,

I’ll will post tomorrow on github… my first one there…

My mqtt explorer :

Thanks

Auden · October 1, 2023, 6:58pm

I’ just updated to v1.4.4… same problem

gsca075 · October 1, 2023, 7:11pm

@Auden,

I think that you should read the instructions from Piotr [here](https://github.com/PiotrMachowski/lovelace-xiaomi-vacuum-map-card/blob/14bc2aa8b99f89a12a8ffb14c6a948f964e6c032/docs/templates/rand256ValetudoRe.md 1) if you want to get the images immediately. I would need you copy the map_data and please do not open an issue, but a discussion. We will try to get the Valetudo Re firmware vacuums compatible with the integration, as I wrote it works with the camera works with vacuums working Hypfer firmware at the moment.

Thanks a lot for raising up your request, we will do as as much it is possible to fit this vacuums too

Auden · October 2, 2023, 8:07am

Hello,

Should I create a discussion on “valetudo Vaccum camera” github or on “lovelace-xiaomi-vaccum-map-card” github

Thanks…

gsca075 · October 2, 2023, 3:53pm

Please use this conversation ValetudoRE and fix snapshot.zip · sca075/valetudo_vacuum_camera · Discussion #37 · GitHub
That is the right place for it… We look forward also to anyone could share data… hopefully we can get this platform working with both firmwares…

gsca075 · November 3, 2023, 10:31am

@Auden Valetudo Vacuum Camera is now fully supporting the Valetudo Re firmwares. The camera can be easily setup from v1.4.8 currently available.

thundergreen · November 3, 2023, 8:57pm

I confirm… works perfectly with Rand256 Thanks a lot

gsca075 · November 4, 2023, 11:01am

@thundergreen thanks for confirming it I found the solution to get the rooms configured in the card automatically and it will be available with 1.4.9 as soon I can confirm it works as intended

thundergreen · November 4, 2023, 4:32pm

nice one! Really cool. Appreciate your awesome work and contribution

gsca075 · November 5, 2023, 11:57am

Just for confirming… v1.4.9 is going to support the card rooms configuration as promised We are now running the tests pre-release, if all goes well we might get this new version by today

thundergreen · November 5, 2023, 7:16pm

hello,

testting latest v1.4.9 … Ithin i did not add rooms to my vacuum… therefor i wont have the feature in the card right?