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Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline

10 months ago by spaghettiwestern to c/technology

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The smart vacuum cleaner was remotely bricked for not collecting data.

An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device. That’s when he noticed it was constantly sending logs and telemetry data to the manufacturer — something he hadn't consented to. The user, Harishankar, decided to block the telemetry servers' IP addresses on his network, while keeping the firmware and OTA servers open. While his smart gadget worked for a while, it just refused to turn on soon after. After a lengthy investigation, he discovered that a remote kill command had been issued to his device.

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doomsel 31 points 10 months ago

I specifically got one which can run valetudo and it works great for over two years now. Without sending images of my flat to china or the us

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ashitaka 4 points 10 months ago

I specifically got a Dreame L10s Pro Ultra so that I could use Valetudo on it. Got the needed adapter on eBay to do it but have had no time as of late to follow the steps as there are quite a few things needed to get it done.

The devs are very touchy, from what I understand, but I get it as the general public can be vexing to take questions/feedback from.

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doomsel 1 point 10 months ago

Nice, I have the exact same one. It is true it takes about 1h and a bit of command line knowledge to do it, so definitely not for everyone.

Yeah, that dude is kind of a dick but on the other hand dealing with bugs in closed source software of big corporations is an even worse experience xD

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