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Smart devices can testify against you: How home robot data is being used in court
(www.the-independent.com)
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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2026
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Given that you are the author of the project, I do consider you the higher authority on what it can and cannot do.
But to me, there's a slight distinction to be made here - Valetudo allows you to directly control the robot from a server running locally on the robot, giving you the option to not interact with a cloud service in order to remotely control the robot vacuum.
This doesn't immediately imply that the robot is directly prevented from passing information to a cloud service - just that the cloud service does not have to be involved as a command proxy.
The larger feature I was thinking of was not only serving a local server to allow commands to come in directly, but also actively prevent any outgoing connections from the robot vacuum to its manufacturers cloud.
Again, you are the author - you know far better what Valetudo does and does not do, so your information weighs heavier here.
I guess I can also mention that I will be pleasantly surprised if my Chinese robot vacuum has actually been prevented from logging any information back home as a part of me having run Valetudo for the past years.
I wouldn't recommend "taking my word for it" tbh.
This is something not decided by authority of a person but authority of the code - and, in turn, authority of a pcap file.
Fair enough. I searched for pcap files in all the repositories for Hypfer on GitHub but found nothing - do they live somewhere else, or is this just GitHubs search being generally lacking?