Routine Support

[alloploid]

Hello,

Are there plans to introduce support for routines? This appears to be a streamlined method of interaction. It would be great to establish some routines within the Roborock app and then simply activate them through HomeKit

[pelletip]

Routine would be great, as the ability to pick if the cleaning action involves mopping, vaccuming, or both

[afharo]

AFAIK, routines are run in the Xiaomi servers. So, for that feature to work, we'd need to talk to the Xiaomi Servers.

At the moment, this plugin only communicates with the robot directly through the local network (no internet is required).

I wonder if the routines can be created directly in HomeKit.

[pelletip]

I believe we could, but we would need to be able to specify if the robot is to vacuum, mop, or both, without a little granular robot control, it will be difficult to create useful routines in homekit

[afharo]

My robot doesn't mop, so I can't test it myself. However, my understanding was that this plugin was able to enable/disable mop (waterbox), doesn't it?

[pelletip]

Since you fixed the waterbox issue on the Q Revo, it works indeed! You can easily emulate the App routine functionality in homekit by creating a scene. Per example, you can create a scene called 'Vacuum the kitchen' that would control 3 items (the robot vacuum turned on, the waterbox turned off, the Kitchen Room turned on).

[afharo]

Brilliant! Thanks for confirming! I'll tentatively close this issue then. Feel free to reopen it, if you think there's anything else to be addressed yet.

[alloploid]

Hi,

It's a bit intricate. The scenes currently set up through the plugin treat each cleaning task as a distinct action. For the Roborock, finishing each task means it returns to the station. In my scenario, this return involves mop cleaning, drying, and dustbin emptying.

Using routines, we can design a sequential flow, customizing parameters for individual areas or rooms. Ideally, it would be most efficient to trigger a routine set-up in the app through the plugin.