Home Assistant

Vacuum cleaner robots

The vacuum component enables the ability to control home cleaning robots within Home Assistant.

To use this component in your installation, add a vacuum platform to your configuration.yaml file, like the Xiaomi.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
vacuum:
  - platform: xiaomi_miio
    name: Living room
    host: 192.168.1.2

Component services

Available services: turn_on, turn_off, start_pause, stop, return_to_home, locate, clean_spot, set_fanspeed and send_command.

Before calling one of these services, make sure your botvac platform supports it.

Service vacuum/turn_on

Start a new cleaning task.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes Only act on specific botvac. Else targets all.

Service vacuum/turn_off

Stop the current cleaning task and return to the dock.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes Only act on specific botvac. Else targets all.

Service vacuum/start_pause

Start, pause or resume a cleaning task.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes Only act on specific botvac. Else targets all.

Service vacuum/stop

Stop the current activity of the botvac.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes Only act on specific botvac. Else targets all.

Service vacuum/return_to_home

Tell the botvac to return home.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes Only act on specific botvac. Else targets all.

Service vacuum/locate

Locate the vacuum cleaner robot.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes Only act on specific botvac. Else targets all.

Service vacuum/clean_spot

Tell the vacuum cleaner to do a spot clean-up.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes Only act on specific botvac. Else targets all.

Service vacuum/set_fanspeed

Set the fan speed of the botvac. The fanspeed can be a label, as balanced or turbo, or be a number; it depends on the vacuum platform.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes Only act on specific botvac. Else targets all.
fanspeed no Platform dependent vacuum cleaner fan speed, with speed steps, like ‘medium’, or by percentage, between 0 and 100.

Service vacuum/send_command

Send a platform-specific command to the vacuum cleaner.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes Only act on specific botvac. Else targets all.
command no Command to execute.
params yes Parameters for the command.