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<div style="text-align: center;">
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<h2>Free your vacuum from the cloud</h2>
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Valetudo is an opinionated software solution for cloud-free vacuum robots installed on thousands of robots.<br/>
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Since it was started in 2018, it has matured to a reliable fire-and-forget solution that just works.
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Valetudo is made, managed, maintained and more by me,
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<a href="https://hypfer.de" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sören Beye</a>, with occasional contributions by
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<a href="https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo/graphs/contributors" rel="noopener" target="_blank">these awesome people</a>.<br/>
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It would not exist without the ongoing work of <a href="https://dontvacuum.me/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Dennis Giese</a>,
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who is constantly providing us with new ways of liberating and gaining actual ownership of our robots.
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As there is no telemetry built-in and no commercial interest to change that, I can't tell you how many users exactly are there,
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however judging by download counts and support group members, I'd guesstimate that there are a few thousand.
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If you want to learn more about why someone would want to use something like Valetudo, check out the [Why Valetudo?](https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/why-valetudo.html) page.
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If you want to learn more about why someone would **not** want to use something like Valetudo, check out the [Why not Valetudo?](https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/why-not-valetudo.html) page.
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To choose the right robot to buy, head over to [Buying supported robots](https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/buying-supported-robots.html).
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If you want to learn more about why I'm building Valetudo, the answer is actually pretty simple:<br/>
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When I was looking for a vacuum robot for myself, I didn't find anything that matched what I was looking for.<br/>
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Thus, in a brief moment of hubris, I thought to myself: "How hard can it be?".<br/>
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Now, more than five years later, we're here and I'm quite happy with how it turned out.
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Valetudo is licensed under the Apache-2.0 open-source license, because you need to be able to know what your smart
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devices are doing and also alter (some parts of) it without being dependent on some vendor and/or third party.
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The only way of truly achieving that is by being able to see and modify the code.
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The Apache-2.0 license is a very permissive license and a lot of work is being shared for free here, so I trust people to not take
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advantage of that and sell Valetudo; especially not as their own work.<br/>
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Please don't disappoint me. Thank you.
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These are the Valetudo Docs.
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Simply use the navigation menu on the left to find what you're looking for.
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The [getting started guide](https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/getting-started.html) is a good place to start.
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If you're looking to make content out of Valetudo, please read [Media & Content Creators](https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/media.html).
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### Screenshots
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#### Phone/Mobile
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<img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/974410/211155741-d6430660-a6b2-48ab-8ddc-2217328444de.png" width=360>
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<img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/eaad6fe0-dd1e-4f56-b6f9-f65954aecac7" width=360>
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<img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/974410/211155650-7cac266c-ffeb-432d-8656-5241a5d6f227.png" width=360>
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<img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/974410/211155656-d43ee25e-1ae6-432f-95ff-1a39d294828d.png" width=360>
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#### Tablet/Desktop
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### Valetudo is a garden <a id="garden"></a>
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This project is the hobby of some random guy on the internet. There is no intent to commercialize it, grow it
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or expand the target audience of it. In fact, there is intent to explicitly not do that.
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Think of Valetudo as a privately-owned public garden. You can visit it any time for free and enjoy it.
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You can spend time there, and you can bring an infinite amount of friends with you to enjoy it.
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You can walk the pathways built there. You can sit on some patch of grass and maybe watch a Duck or something.
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You can leave a tip in the tip jar at the entrance if you really enjoy it and want to support it flourish.
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You can take inspiration from it and bring that home to your own garden, giving it a personal twist and adapting it as needed.
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You can even make friendly suggestions if you have a really good idea that ties into the vision that is already there.
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But, at the end of the day, you must understand that it is still privately-owned. You're on someone else's property
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over which you have no power at all. You will have to show the necessary respect. And - most importantly - you need to
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understand that letting you into this garden is a gift and should be treated as such.
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If you don't like this garden because you don't like how it's structured, or you feel like it's missing something, or maybe
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I choose the wrong flowers to plant over there that's fine. It's just not for you then. You can leave at any time.
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There is simply no ground to stand on to demand change to the garden. It doesn't matter if it would attract more people
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or if all the other gardens in town are doing something in a specific way. It doesn't matter if your idea of what gardens
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even are differs.<br/>
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This at the end of the day is simply private property with free public access as a gift to everyone.
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When it comes to software development, _everyone_ has access to infinite plots of undeveloped land that they can claim at any time.
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Therefore, a garden being build with a specific vision does not take away the ability for anyone else to build their own garden with a different vision.
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### Further questions?
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1. [dust_announce - Very low frequency updates about Valetudo and Rooting](https://t.me/dust_announce)
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2. <a href="https://t.me/+F00lFE1NVUc2NTAy" data-si="34097f03527c7c0375540b07132a652161373c7b0d3b031c6a640d4556614159600b09351b1c087d">Valetudo Telegram group</a>
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3. [So you've been banned?](https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/so-youve-been-banned.html)
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Any other mediums such as IRC, Matrix or Reddit are unofficial channels not connected to the project and might contain incorrect or outdated information.
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