i7 / selective cleaning

[thorazine-12]

Thanks to your support I managed to operate my i7 using dorita980 library.
But now I try to figure out how to start selective cleaning process (send i7 only to selected rooms), so I need to change _apiCall fuction somehow.
But the question is how to do it? I assume that there is no open-API for i7, so how can I figure out what API command will start this selective cleaning process?
I'd appreciate your comment about this.

[koalazak]

Hi @thorazine-12,
exactly, there is no open-API for i7 so you need to sniff the trafic beatween the mobile app and the robot to see what is the command to do that.
If you found the command please reopen the issue and I will update the lib to add the command.
thank you!

[briandlucas]

close but no luck... the reported last command is:

{"command":"start","initiator":"localApp","ordered":0,"pmap_id":"BYgLAfu2TTWnJHPksxd1ew","regions":[{"region_id":"15","region_name":"Laundry Room","region_type":"laundry_room"}],"time":1561487907,"user_pmapv_id":"190625T025451"}}}}

later in the shadow update stream there are two pmaps (position maps?) each with a user pmap:
"pmaps": [{"BYgLAfu2TTWnJHPksxd1ew": "190625T025451"}, {"iy0zJsSpTLK0MpsizdAc0g": "190625T172158"}],

a command with two rooms selected for cleaning:
"regions": [{"region_id": "14", "region_name": "Family Room", "region_type": "family_room"}, {"region_id": "15", "region_name": "Laundry Room", "region_type": "laundry_room"}]

i also tried to prefix the command with state / desired / command as mentioned in another issue but also w/o success.

i would really like to get this to work... thoughts?

[koalazak]

did you try with this?

const cmd = {command: 'start', time: Date.now() / 1000 | 0, initiator: 'localApp', "pmap_id":"BYgLAfu2TTWnJHPksxd1ew","regions":[{"region_id":"15","region_name":"Laundry Room","region_type":"laundry_room"}], "user_pmapv_id":"190625T025451"};
myRobotViaLocal.publish('cmd', JSON.stringify(cmd), function (e) {
  console.log(e);
});

this should start cleaning the Laundry Room

[briandlucas]

so i actually wasn't running your code - was working on another project in another language... but i did fire it up this morning and now have a lead as to why my i7 just blinks at me with room-specific commands but otherwise responds appropriately. the [extra] length of the room-specific commands trips the MQTT remaining length into a second byte. i never focused on the 7-bits for length and 1 bit as continuation flag - i was always under the 127 limit with simple start/stop/dock but the "regions" put me over the 1 byte limit. thank you and your code for the clue!!