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koalazak / dorita980

Unofficial iRobot Roomba and Braava (i7/i7+, 980, 960, 900, e5, 690, 675, m6, etc) node.js library (SDK) to control your robot
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Lightweight alternative? #65

Closed eduperez closed 6 years ago

eduperez commented 6 years ago

I am planning to control a Roomba from an embedded device. So far, dorita980 is working perfectly (thanks for all your work!), but I think that node.js is a bit too heavy for my setup, and would like to search for something lighter.

I mostly need to be able to turn the Roomba on and off, nothing specially fancy, so I just need to send commands to the Roomba. I have been experimenting with mosquitto's MQTT client, but so far I could not even connect to the Roomba (there is something wrong with the TLS, I guess).

Does anybody know of any alternatives to dorita980, that do not require node.js? Or how to send direct MQTT commands to the Roomba? Many thanks!

koalazak commented 6 years ago

did you evaluate install rest980 on your lan, and then just sent http requests from your lightweight setup to rest980?

eduperez commented 6 years ago

Yes, I had a look at rest980; but it also needs node.js, and I am trying to find a solution that does not involve having any "heavy" device running 24/7. Thanks for the pointer.

koalazak commented 6 years ago

ok. And did you disable the certificate validation using mosquitto? https://mosquitto.org/api/files/mosquitto-h.html#mosquitto_tls_opts_set also check this methods:

mosquitto_tls_set | Configure the client for certificate based SSL/TLS support.
mosquitto_tls_insecure_set | Configure verification of the server hostname in the server certificate.
mosquitto_tls_opts_set | Set advanced SSL/TLS options.

You need to setup mosquito to ignore the error validating the TLS robot's certificate on connect.

ristomatti commented 6 years ago

Sorry to also take part of this off topic conversation but could I somehow send commands using MQTT? I never got dorita980 working unfortunately. I would also be happy with just start/stop/return home.

The official IFTTT support would also be ok (although a bit more cumbersome to integrate to Node-RED) for me if they'd just expand it outside US/UK. I've contacted iRobot support but they had no timeline to give. :unamused:

eduperez commented 6 years ago

I am using mosquitto's utilities (mosquitto_pub and mosquitto_sub), not the mosquitto library, and I could not guess how to pass those parameters from the utils; Is should probably bit the bullet and build my own client... however, I noticed that the global "node_modules" folder was the only roadblock in my setup, everything else could be accommodated in my embedded device; so I moved that folder to an external drive, and now I can run node.js and dorita980 successfully.

Many thanks for your help.