
Connecting an old Roomba robot vacuum to a home automation platform
Integrating home automation into a 16-year-old product The Roomba is one of the first robot vacuum cleaners, marketed in 2002. This technology was revolutionary for its time and quite expensive. Nowadays, many manufacturers offer Wi-Fi-connected robot vacuums with countless features. I remember that we had one of these robots when I was little. After searching a bit, I found it under stacked boxes. This robot is the Roomba 551, which was marketed in 2008 and brought automatic cleaning scheduling at the time....