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Hypfer / ICantBelieveItsNotValetudo

A Valetudo companion service which renders maps to pngs
Apache License 2.0
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Some help please #1

Closed posixx closed 4 years ago

posixx commented 5 years ago

Could we get some description about this new setup? For instance, I have 2 roborocks running in my house, how to configure this using the separate project? Also how does this new service get info from the roborocks? Through MQTT?

Hypfer commented 5 years ago

Documentation is rather sparse indeed atm 😕

Basically you need to run two instances of this application with slightly different configuration files. Starting with Valetudo 0.3.1, the robot is pushing the raw data to MQTT on topicPrefix/identifier/map_data which defaults to valetudo/rockrobo/map_data.

If you compare the configuration file seen in this repos readme.md to the configuration on your robot it should be fairly easy to understand.

To run this software, you can either just git clone, npm install, npm start, or use the provided Dockerfile to deploy it in a container

posixx commented 5 years ago

Thx for explaining. It can use webserver for image retrieval, but does it also send MQTT message with image back on a topic? So we don't have to use manual retrieval. With v0.30 i have realitime map updaters during cleaning so it would be nice to keep that

Hypfer commented 5 years ago

It also sends the Map as PNG to the MQTT Topic and does the Home Assistant MQTT Autoconfiguration.

I just added the webserver for FHEM etc. It's completely optional

posixx commented 5 years ago

Nice:-) Going to upgrade now..

posixx commented 5 years ago

oh, another option would be nice for this and valetudo: disable autodiscovery for homeassistant. Right now it keeps finding new items in openhab even when selecting hide devices..

Hypfer commented 5 years ago

That only happens if you're using different identifiers than before. Otherwise it should simply overwrite the old stored MQTT Message and HA doesn't detect a "new" device

posixx commented 5 years ago

Nice it works perfectly. running 2 npm instances using pm2, still having realtime updates of the map on my openhab dashboard!

about the autodiscovery; i don't change identifiers at all, but it is still redetected in OpenHAB

AL0F commented 4 years ago

Hey there! What I don't understand and should be mentioned somewhere in the Readme: where should this companion be running? On the robot? Or on a pi? If in the robot: I even can't install NPM due to limited Drive space on the robot - how to start this?