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I recently bought a robot vacuum, installed valetudo, installed tailscale onto the robot itself and now I can control it from anywhere through my personal mesh vpn.

It's pretty amazing. Valetudo is perhaps the most opinionated software I've ever used, which comes with the good and the bad. But overall, it works and it does what it says it will do.

I don't really need to access it remotely, though it has come in handy: when heading out of town I can turn off the scheduled cleans and just run it once on the day I'm returning home. Which is really the only functionality you would need the manufacturer-provided cloud connectivity for.

It's been fun explaining to people that it's "declouded", but I can access it from anywhere. Melts non-tech peoples' brains a little bit.