2025.01.0
New Year, new Robot, MQTT changes and QoL fixes
New Robot
Beside the Dreame X40 and L40, there is also another permutation featuring basically the same hardware:
The Mova P10 Pro Ultra
What it can't do compared to its peers is leave its mops in the dock, however what it can do is cost $600 or less.
You're welcome.
Nightly updater
The nightly update channel now has a version check that actually works.
Previously, it always reported that there is a new version available, leading to some confusion.
MQTT
There are a bunch of MQTT changes and fixes in this release.
Dock Status
For docks that have a status, the dock status is now exposed to MQTT:
This should be helpful for automations.
More optionally exposable capabilities
The following capabilities can now optionally be exposed to MQTT:
- PetObstacleAvoidance
- CarpetModeControl
- CarpetSensorModeControl
again, something helpful for automations.
Fixing an infinite lock
As you know, there is no reboot button in Valetudo and that is for good reason. It should never require one.
Unfortunately, it happened to require one for some people first time setting up their robot.
In those situations, the MQTT client could lock up and never connect until the robot was rebooted.
This was super hard to identify and reproduce, but I think that I finally found the root cause.
Fingers crossed 🤞
Map performance optimizations
The map renderer now simplifies and merges the to-be-rendered paths into one per type before drawing.
While it looks the same as before, it now performs much better when there's a long cleaning task going on.
Changes to the consumables
Consumables are changing a tiny bit with this release, resulting in a breaking change:
sensor is no longer a type but a subType of the newly introduced type cleaning. If you've been relying on that, please update whatever code you use accordingly.
Furthermore, this will also break the Sensor Cleaning entity in Home Assistant.
To fix that, just delete the device in Home Assistant before updating. After the robot reboots, everything should be rediscovered correctly.
This change was necessary due to the new wheel consumable Dreame introduced with newer firmwares.
wheel is now the second subType for consumable type cleaning.
Additionally, it seems that Dreame has removed the mop consumable from some new firmwares.
It hence has been removed from Valetudo as well for the affected robots.
Misc Dreame changes
There are two new Dreame Quirks in 2025.01 if your robot's firmware supports them.
The first being Clean Route:
which does make quite a difference on the "deep" setting:
Also, users of Dreames with an extending side brush will now be able to enable the side brush on carpet:
As said, this will require the latest firmware. Speaking of:
Firmware Updates
Over the last weeks, we were once again busy testing and then updating the Dustbuilder with new firmware versions where available.
Feel free to try them and see if you can spot any improvements.
As the Valetudo updater only updates Valetudo, for instructions on updating the firmware, check out the docs.
In my testing on my X40 master, it was necessary to reconfigure Wi-Fi after the update.
I have not been able to reproduce that since, so no clue if it might affect you as well or if it was only caused by something I fixed when adding support for the new firmwares.
Bonus
In the last release notes, I talked about the vendor apps and how there were some interesting developments.
Since then, there have been some more interesting developments. Just see for yourself:
sqH7fAI.mp4
Imagine being a person that just paid $1500 for a vacuum robot to then discover.. that.
But of course, it should quickly turn out that it's a systemic issue that is not isolated to one vendor:
In a way, this feels vindicating, because it's another great example of why Valetudo exists in the first place.
This style of enshittification simply can't happen to something that is self-contained and operates purely local.
Still, I also feel a deep sadness that Tech and feeling excitement for it has been taken away from me.
The usual
If you want to see Valetudo on more robots and/or like this release, you might want to consider donating:
https://github.com/sponsors/Hypfer
https://builder.dontvacuum.me/donations.txt
Autogenerated changelog
Breaking Changes
- vendor.dreame: The mop consumable has been removed from X/L40 firmwares and equivalent
d7f8e75 - The sensor consumable type is now a subtype of the new type cleaning
b798ebb
Features
- ui: Simplify and merge paths to improve performance
ac5e096 - vendor.dreame: Introduce Side Brush on Carpet quirk
f795e2e - vendor.dreame: Wheel consumable monitoring
1eda6ef - core: Introduce wheel consumable subtype
6161901 - updater: Add unnecessary NullUpdateProvider for good measure
1b9dc20 - updater: Introduce a working version comparison to the nightly update channel
2cb8efc - ui: Shuffle the MQTT settings around
a96ab06 - mqtt: Remove obsolete addICBINVMapProperty setting
6dec70f - vendor.dreame: MOVA P10 Pro Ultra
df0609e - vendor.dreame: Introduce clean route quirk
7b3dfb0 - vendor.roborock: Add error mapping for error codes 27 35
9d3df05 - ui: Trim host field inputs
a07503b - mqtt: Optionally expose PetObstacleAvoidance, CarpetModeControl and CarpetSensorModeControl capabilities
2cc0ab5 - mqtt: Publish Dock Status to MQTT
ee76222
Fixes
- vendor.dreame: Newer dreames may store obstacle images elsewhere
b8477fb - mqtt: Attempt to fix the reconfigure mutex never being left
1af75e0 - docs: Wording
fd89128 - ui: Add missing word in welcomeDialog
c78e8c2 - vendor.dreame: Hide obstacles of type 200
88c0af5 - mqtt: Fix Home Assistant object_id generation
d77480c
Refactoring
- mqtt: Minor cleanup
8f22341