Poor man's Deebot Ecovacs launch automation - no SW install or code required

[danabw]

Just a note - for some reason this "trick" stopped working for me...Deebot would leave the base station in slow mode and then hunt around and return to the base. Not sure why.

Anyway, I've now changed to useing @brianwilson's excellent Deebot integration you can run on a Pi...here:

Deebot EcoVacs Driver

You can see if this will work for you. It's really crummy code but my thinking is that I can create an action that I can call when someone leaves the house and if the day is Wed or Sunday, it calls clean. When someone gets back, it calls Charge and sends a notification to check the vacuum.

With some of my "lessons learned" info from my setup here:

Deebot EcoVacs Driver

Woot! Just got @brianwilson's integration up and running on a Pi. Couple of changes that were required to make it work for me: For the Docker build command, I needed to add a period "." after the after "ecovacs-api" in the build command to specify the current directory for the Dockerfile: docker build -t ecovacs-api . --build-arg ECOVACS_USER='xxxx@xxxx.com' --build-arg ECOVACS_PASS='xxxx' For the curl command in the http GET Switch device I had to remove the "curl -s" from the command - bel…