Neato Botvac Connected Wifi Reverse Engineer Android App ??

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Anyone here have the knowledge to take a copy of Neato Botvac Connected Wifi app for Android (or IOS) and reverse engineer it to get the information needed to create a Plugin for Vera ??

Here is link to Programmer Manual;
https://www.neatorobotics.com/resources/programmersmanual_20140305.pdf

Diagnostic program by USB port;
http://www.robotreviews.com/chat/viewtopic.php?p=129822#p129822

Adding WiFi to earlier model;
http://www.robotreviews.com/chat/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=17938

Capturing Iphone app commands on a Mac

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The programmers manual you linked to is for the USB serial on the older robots. No information has been released yet for the Botvac Connected.

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I would hope that the command to “Clean” would be the same on the Wifi model…

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just came across this forum thread → Hacking a Neato Robotics BotVac Connected | MySensors Forum

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There is a long thread under “General” where I put a Spark in a Neato and got it working. But I had power problems and I think it eventually shorted out the motherboard.

I am interested in the Connected, but until they fully support an API, I am not touching (or purchasing) it…

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Hek at Mysensors has decompiled the android app, has a download available.

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Another hack of adding wifi to a later Botvac;
http://www.tatsch.it/neato-botvac-80-wifi-mod/

Auto Pilot program for XV-11
http://home.wlu.edu/~levys/software/neatopylot/

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Well I was able to follow this guide;
http://www.tatsch.it/neato-botvac-80-wifi-mod/

and install the required software on a A5-V11 mini router, (the size of a large USB flash drive) and then was successful in issuing the “Clean” command.

baby steps…

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So are you now then using the Serial API insted of the WiFi on your BotVac Connected?

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I have a “Connected” and “D80”, just trying to learn something.

Happy to see the commands remained the same.

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A friend of mine just made a PHP library for the Neato cloud service → GitHub - tomrosenback/botvac: PHP library for Neato Botvac

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Now that Neato has released an official API and SDK, would be nice to have an app to bind to it.
Anyone up to it?

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I would be interested also…
Thanks :slight_smile:

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Looked at the API for a few minutes today. Oauth authentication and and Restful APIs.

I really don’t want a &^%%$ cloud connection…