Never connected my Roomba to the internet and it has worked fine for the past several years. It insists that I should connect to it via the app to resolve the occasional minor issue, but I would always ignore those. It's starting to show its wear and it's probably time for a new vacuum. I'm not sure if I'll be able to bootstrap one without connectivity, nowadays. Any good recommendations out there?
Valetudo is the best out there. I rooted my Roborock, and connected it my home assistant. It's super useful without having to send data to the cloud. The only thing is the developers are severely limited by how many vacuums they can support. I recently bought a Dreame X50 and it's still not supported.
