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Petition against shutdown of Neato Robotics cloud by Vorwerk (www.openpetition.org)
submitted 4 months ago by Ascendor@discuss.tchncs.de to c/smarthomes@feddit.uk
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Hey guys,

I don't know if you'd count vacuum robots as smart home as well, but I guess this might be interesting: Vorwerk, owner of Neato Robotics, has closed down the cloud features for Neato Botvacs - three years earlier than they promised to.

A petition is going strong against it.

I'd be happy if you could sign and share. Even if you are not affected today, it could be a strong sign for other vendors as well...

https://www.openpetition.org/us/petition/online/vorwerk-need-to-stop-destroying-working-hardware-keep-neato-robotics-cloud-alive

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[-] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Or they can patch the robot (if they can send firmware updates) to support local servers and then release the code to deploy a local server

[-] Ascendor@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

That is one of the demands of the petition :-)

[-] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 4 months ago

My bad

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