Installing Valetudo

After you’ve acquired your supported vacuum robot, the next step is to do a simple test run before you void your warranty. Usually it’s possible to simply use the buttons on the robot to start a cleanup. No need to use an official app.

If everything seems to be working fine with no unexpected error messages, weird behaviour or things catching fire, you can now navigate to the rooting instructions docs page and follow the matching guide for your model of robot.

Joining Wifi

With your robot rooted and Valetudo installed, the next step is to join your robot to your Wi-Fi network so that you can interact with it. To do that, please do not execute any random shell commands or edit some config files as that often leads to breakage.

Instead, you should use Valetudo for that. The easiest way, which avoids common issues is to use the android companion app and follow the instructions there after pressing the + button on the bottom right.

If you are using a laptop, an iphone or remember to disable mobile data on your android phone yourself, you can also visit Valetudo by connecting to the AP provided by the robot and do the provisioning via its webinterface:

The IP of robot can either be figured out by the IP assigned to you by its DHCP server or by just trying out http://192.168.5.1 and http://192.168.8.1. Note that some browsers might try redirecting you to https:// without you noticing.

Using Valetudo

With your Valetudo-enabled robot being connected to your home network, you can now start using it by simply opening its webinterface in the browser of your choice unless your choice is the Internet Explorer.

If you don’t know how to find said Webinterface, you can use the android companion app, which will autodiscover Valetudo instances on your network.

If you’re using a computer running Microsoft Windows, you can also open the explorer and navigate to “Network” where your new robot should also be autodiscovered.

Now What?

Congratulations! You have now significantly increased the baseline cleanliness of your living space.

It is strongly recommended to now connect Valetudo to the home automation system of your choice such as OpenHab or Home Assistant.

Using that, you can now do things such as

• running a cleanup after everyone has left the building
• clean a room by double-pressing its light switch

and more.

Also, consider checking out the companion apps section of the docs where you can find stuff like Valeronoi, which can build a Wi-Fi signal heatmap from the data provided by Valetudo.

Or maybe you’re interested in importing your floor plan into minecraft or the source game engine?