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Roomba home automation with openHAB

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Controlling a Roomba and tracking its battery from openHAB via a RooWiFi module.

A Roomba vacuum controlled from openHAB, with a RooWiFi module as the bridge.

  • openHAB rules send HTTP GET requests to the module’s rwr.cgi endpoint with codes for clean, stop, dock and power on/off.
  • Each rule retries up to ten times, five seconds apart, until the response confirms success.
  • Items poll rwr.xml on port 5000 through the HTTP binding and use regex to extract charging state, voltage, current and battery capacity.
  • A rule turns that into a battery percentage, and a sitemap shows the switches and status.

Also works with openHAB 2.4.

This is an archived project, first published on 25 May 2016.