DESCRIPTION
This plug-in is designed to work with the Neato Botvac Connected Robot Vacuums. This includes the Botvac Connected, Botvac D3 Connected, Botvac D4 Connected, Botvac D5 Connected, Botvac D6 Connected and Botvac D7 Connected. It supports multiple robots, as long as they are registered on the same Neato account.
REQUIREMENTS
There are no additional software requirements. The plug-in can be installed from the HS3 updater, and can be found under the section “Robotics”.
CONFIGURATION
After installation and starting the plug-in, go to the configuration page. They are three tabs:
If anything doesn’t work, you can try one the following:
NOTES
This plug-in is designed to work with the Neato Botvac Connected Robot Vacuums. This includes the Botvac Connected, Botvac D3 Connected, Botvac D4 Connected, Botvac D5 Connected, Botvac D6 Connected and Botvac D7 Connected. It supports multiple robots, as long as they are registered on the same Neato account.
REQUIREMENTS
- This plug-in is for HS3 or HS3PRO. It works with both Windows and Linux versions
- Windows: .NET Framework 4.5 or later
- Linux: mono 4.x or later
- A valid Neato account with the robot(s) properly registered
There are no additional software requirements. The plug-in can be installed from the HS3 updater, and can be found under the section “Robotics”.
CONFIGURATION
After installation and starting the plug-in, go to the configuration page. They are three tabs:
- Setup: For a first setup, execute the four steps in the order shown. For step one, a new window will open and you need to enter your Neato account credentials. On the next page, you will need to “Authorize” the plug-in to use your account. When the confirmation page is shown, please close the window. Step 2, 3 and 4 do not require any additional steps and when successful, a authorization key, access tokens and robot name(s) will be shown next to the buttons.
- Robots: After successful setup, your robots will be listed here.
- Settings: Advanced plug-in settings. Normally, there is no need to change any of those and any change of those settings might negatively impact the functionality of the plug-in.
If anything doesn’t work, you can try one the following:
- Stop and restart the plug-in. Any changes in the Robot or Neato API configuration should be detected and the plug-in will be updated with the new information.
- If that fails, go to the Setup page. Try to “Refresh robot list”.
- If that fails, try to “Generate security token”.
- If that fails, start by “Authorize plug-in” again (see instructions above, Configuration, Setup)
- If that fails, go to Settings and select “Refresh all Neato devices” (available in version 3.0.0.11 and above). That will re-create all Neato devices, but keeps the original device reference ID's.
- Alternatively to "Refresh all Neato Devices", go to Settings and select “Remove all Neato devices”. Then go back to Setup and select “Refresh robot list”. This will re-create all required HomeSeer devices. New reference ID's will be assigned, so this might impact events, scripts, HStouch or other places were the devices are referenced by their reference ID.
- If all fails, remove all Neato devices (see above), stop the plug-in, and remove “Config/Neato.ini”. Then start the plug-in and start the configuration over.
NOTES
- The plug-in has been tested with a Botvac Connected with firmware 2.2.0 and a Botvac D7 Connected with firmware 4.4.0-72.
- The plug-in also supports the Botvac D3 Connected and Botvac D5 Connected, but as I do not own these devices please let me know if something doesn't work as expected.
- Not all features are supported on all models. Where possible, only supported features will show as options in the plug-in devices.
- If your registration on the Neato Robot or Neato website changes (for instance, re-registration of the Robot), that might trigger a change of the security key used by this plug-in. A restart of the plug-in should resolve any issues caused by this security key change.
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