Segment/room cleaning using Valetudo (and Roborock S5)

[NoBagels]

I'm running a Roborock S5 w/ the latest Valetudo, have installed Valetudo vacuum camera and followed the instructions (including "Card configuration") in https://github.com/sca075/valetudo_vacuum_camera/blob/main/docs/install.md.

It works fine selecting f. ex. zone cleanup using the card, and the Camera entity reports 6 rooms with correct names, but when selecting "Generate room config" nothing happens.

(It also works fine sending the robot to different rooms/segments using the guide here: https://valetudo.cloud/pages/integrations/home-assistant-integration.html)

What step(s)/config have I missed?

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NoB

[PiotrMachowski]

Can you show card's yaml config?

[NoBagels]

Sure:

type: custom:xiaomi-vacuum-map-card
entity: vacuum.valetudo_strictfaithfuloryx
vacuum_platform: Hypfer/Valetudo
map_source:
  camera: camera.valetudo_s5_strictfaithfuloryx_camera
map_locked: false
two_finger_pan: true
calibration_source:
  camera: true
internal_variables:
  topic: valetudo/StrictFaithfulOryx
map_modes:
  - template: vacuum_clean_zone
  - template: vacuum_goto

[PiotrMachowski]

Is the map card inside some other card?

[sca075]

@NoBagels can you please try to create a new card from scratch, select the vacuum camera and of course Valetudo/hypfer. At this point generate room and then add the topic. Basically edit the card Yaml after the rooms are generated.

[NoBagels]

@PiotrMachowski No (but see below :-) ).

@sca075 Ok, that seems to have worked, thank you!

[jonasgustavsson]

Thanks @sca075 for your answer. I have spent hours trying to figure this out until I found your solution.
I must say that the whole concept of "generate rooms", "calibration" and "auto-calibration" is confusing for me, and that the documentation needs improvement. As I'm a professional technical writer, I would normally make a pull request for improvements. However, although I've found a solution, I still don't understand how this works so that I can contribute to improvement.

[PiotrMachowski]

Generally speaking, generating rooms should work without this workaround, but apparently there is a bug that prevents it from working.

Calibration is a process that allows to map points on the map image to the coordinates that vacuum uses to move. If everything works correctly calibration should be done automatically by taking data from the camera entity.

Generating rooms works the same way, it takes info about rooms from the camera entity and uses it to add a map mode that uses them.

I'm not good at writing documentation and this card is quite complicated because I put a lot features into it. This results in a bit messy documentation that in most cases is not required at all - card editor should take care of everything. I have some ideas how to improve the editor, but I don't have enough time to do it at this moment. 🙁