sbv@sh.itjust.works to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoMatic is a $1,795 robot vacuum for people concerned about privacymaticrobots.comexternal-linkmessage-square107fedilinkarrow-up1188arrow-down125file-text
arrow-up1163arrow-down1external-linkMatic is a $1,795 robot vacuum for people concerned about privacymaticrobots.comsbv@sh.itjust.works to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square107fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 year agoEh. That doesn’t prevent anything if the unit itself still connects to the internet somehow (looking at you, Wyze). You really just need to make sure the unit doesn’t and can’t get online. Very few of those out there.
minus-squareYou999@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoAnd that is why VLANs are amazing. Can’t phone home if it can’t connect to the internet.
minus-squareNyfure@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoUntil it outright refuses to work without its cloud connection
minus-squarenavi@lemmy.tespia.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·1 year agoThat’s why you flash the vacuum with a custom firmware! https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo
minus-squarefolkrav@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoFirst two sentences of that readme: Valetudo is a cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation. It is not a custom firmware.
minus-squarenavi@lemmy.tespia.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoDoh! My bad. It isn’t custom firmware but it does install software on top of the existing firmware onboard which is pretty slick.
Eh. That doesn’t prevent anything if the unit itself still connects to the internet somehow (looking at you, Wyze).
You really just need to make sure the unit doesn’t and can’t get online. Very few of those out there.
And that is why VLANs are amazing. Can’t phone home if it can’t connect to the internet.
Until it outright refuses to work without its cloud connection
That’s why you flash the vacuum with a custom firmware!
https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo
First two sentences of that readme:
Doh! My bad.
It isn’t custom firmware but it does install software on top of the existing firmware onboard which is pretty slick.