Roomba Status (UPDATE V1.4)

[bhylak]

No problem.

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Has anyone attempted to use Roomba Status with Ubuntu or another Linux distro to control via Bluetooth and/or USB?

I'm curious what libraries have to be added to Wine if any...

[vic7767]

I have not but I suspect that the .Net software was used to build the interface.

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Anyone have ideas of what version of .Net Framework and any other parts involved?

I see Wine has all .Net Framework packages working for Linux...

[bhylak]

It seems like its been a very long time since Roomba Status has been developed. There are now tons of alternatives, on Linux and Otherwise.

I'm a big fan of Roborealm, and it runs perfectly with Wine even on small computers like the Pi.

Here's an open source Linux compatible program: http://playerstage.sourceforge.net

Some more linux based stuff, and a link to a great book: http://hackingroomba.com/code/embedded-linux/

Like I said, I personally prefer Roborealm. Even past the basic control, its one of the most powerful vision processors that can run on an off the shelf processor. The webservers pretty sweet also.

Ben