Liberating the Hardware: Rooting the Dreame X40 Ultra
I’ve deployed numerous iRobot and Neato units over the years. My previous iRobot fleet served faithfully for five years; they are easy to repair, but their performance has fallen behind, and the mandatory cloud tethering is a strategic disadvantage for any privacy-conscious home. The Dreame X40 Ultra is a superior piece of hardware, but to truly own it, I had to strip away the cloud requirement. The Mission: Local Control To achieve full autonomy, I used Valetudo. It replaces the cloud interface with a local web server, keeping the data off external servers and locked within my IoT VLAN and Home Assistant instance. ...