Neato Binding

This binding connects openHAB to the Neato cloud (where you log in and manage your Neato devices). Discovery is supported by configuring your login and password on a bridge. The binding provides status channels for your vacuum cleaners and a command channel to control them. Since the binding uses polling, there may be some latency depending on the refresh interval.

For login, the binding uses the Neato Beehive API; for status and control, it uses the Nucleo API.

Supported Things

Supported Thing types

• neatoaccount (bridge)
• vacuumcleaner

A bridge is required to connect to your Neato cloud account.

All "Connected" type vacuum cleaners should be supported by this binding since they are supported by the Neato API. As of today, it has been verified with Neato Connected and Neato D7 vacuum cleaners.

Discovery

Discovery is used after a bridge has been created and configured with your login information.

1. Add the binding
2. Add a new Thing of type NeatoAccount and configure with username and password
3. Go to the Inbox and start discovery of vacuums using the Neato binding
4. Vacuums should appear in your Inbox

Thing Configuration

To manually create a Thing file instead of using discovery, you need the vacuum’s serial number as well as the secret used in web service calls. This is a bit difficult to get. The easiest way of getting this information is to use the third party python library that is available at https://github.com/stianaske/pybotvac (opens new window).

Neato Account Configuration

Config	Description
email	Email address tied to Neato Account
password	Password tied to Neato Account

Vacuum Cleaner Configuration

Config	Description
serial	Serial Number of your Neato Robot
secret	Secret for accessing Neato web services (see note above)
refresh	Refresh time interval in seconds for updates from the Neato Web Service. Defaults to 60 sec

Channels

Channel	Type	Label	Description	Read Only
battery-level	Number	Battery Level	Battery Level of the vacuum cleaner.	True
state	String	Current State	Current state of the vacuum cleaner.	True
available-services	String	Current available services	List of services that are currently available for the vacuum cleaner	True
action	String	Current Action	Current action of the vacuum cleaner.	True
dock-has-been-seen	Switch	Dock has been seen	True or False value if the dock has been seen	True
is-docked	Switch	Is docked	Is the vacuum cleaner in the docking station?	True
is-scheduled	Switch	Is scheduled enabled	True or False value if the vacuum cleaner is scheduled for cleaning.	True
is-charging	Switch	Is Charging	Is the vacuum cleaner currently charging?	True
available-commands	String	Available Commands	List of available commands.	True
error	String	Error	Current error message in system.	True
command	String	Send Command	Send Commands to Vacuum Cleaner. (clean with map, clean, pause, resume, stop, dock)	False
cleaning-category	String	Cleaning Category	Current or Last category of the cleaning. Manual, Normal House Cleaning or Spot Cleaning.	True
cleaning-mode	String	Cleaning Mode	Current or Last cleaning mode. Eco or Turbo.	True
cleaning-modifier	String	Cleaning Modifier	Modifier of current or last cleaning. Normal or Double.	True
cleaning-spotwidth	Number	Spot Width	Current or Last cleaning, width of spot. 100-400cm.	True
cleaning-spotheight	Number	Spot Height	Current or Last cleaning, height of spot. 100-400cm.	True

Full Example

Below you will find examples of the necessary files:

neato.items

Group GNeato
Number FannDammBattery  "Battery level [%.0f %%]" <battery> (GNeato) { channel = "neato:vacuumcleaner:fanndamm:battery-level" }
String FannDammState  "Status [MAP(neato-sv.map):%s]" (GNeato) { channel = "neato:vacuumcleaner:fanndamm:state" }
String FannDammError  "Error [%s]" (GNeato) { channel = "neato:vacuumcleaner:fanndamm:error" }
String FannDammAction  "Action [MAP(neato-sv.map):%s]" (GNeato) { channel = "neato:vacuumcleaner:fanndamm:action" }
Switch FannDammDockHasBeenSeen  "Seen dock [%s]" <present> (GNeato) { channel = "neato:vacuumcleaner:fanndamm:dock-has-been-seen" }
Switch FannDammIsDocked  "In dock [MAP(neato-sv.map):%s]" <present> (GNeato) { channel = "neato:vacuumcleaner:fanndamm:is-docked" }
Switch FannDammIsScheduled  "Scheduled [%s]" (GNeato) { channel = "neato:vacuumcleaner:fanndamm:is-scheduled" }
Switch FannDammIsCharging  "Is Charging [%s]" <heating> (GNeato) { channel = "neato:vacuumcleaner:fanndamm:is-charging" }
String FannDammCategory  "Cleaning Category [MAP(neato-sv.map):%s]" (GNeato)  { channel = "neato:vacuumcleaner:fanndamm:cleaning-category" }
String FannDammMode  "Cleaning Mode [MAP(neato-sv.map):%s]" (GNeato) { channel = "neato:vacuumcleaner:fanndamm:cleaning-mode" }
String FannDammModifier  "Cleaning Modifier [MAP(neato-sv.map):%s]" (GNeato) { channel = "neato:vacuumcleaner:fanndamm:cleaning-modifier" }
Number FannDammSpotWidth  "SpotWidth [%.0f]" <niveau> (GNeato) { channel = "neato:vacuumcleaner:fanndamm:cleaning-spotwidth" }
Number FannDammSpotHeight  "SpotHeight [%.0f]" <niveau> (GNeato)  { channel = "neato:vacuumcleaner:fanndamm:cleaning-spotheight" }
String FannDammCommand  "Send Command" { channel = "neato:vacuumcleaner:fanndamm:command" }

neato.sitemap

Frame label="Neato BotVac Connected" {
    Switch item=FannDammCommand mappings=[cleanWithMap="cleanWithMap", clean="Clean",stop="Stop",pause="Pause",resume="Resume", dock="Send to dock"]
    Text item=FannDammBattery label="Battery level"
    Text item=FannDammState
    Text item=FannDammError label="Error Message" icon="siren"
    Text item=FannDammAction label="Activity"
    Text item=FannDammIsDocked label="In dock"
    Group label="Mer information" item=GNeato
}

neato.things

Bridge neato:neatoaccount:neatobridge "Neato Account Bridge" [ email="yours@example.com", password="neato-account-password" ]
Thing neato:vacuumcleaner:fanndamm "Neato BotVac" (neato:neatoaccount:neatobridge) [ serial="vacuumcleaner-serial", secret="secret-string" ]

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