Neato Robotics shut down in 2023, and its vacuums depended on company servers to work. Vacuula has published a replacement server on GitHub that brings those orphaned robots back online.

The project is an all-in-one repair and control solution for broken Neato robots. It runs as a server you host yourself, so it needs hardware that stays powered on. Home Assistant users can add it through a provided add-on repository. Everyone else is pointed at Docker Compose. There is also an installer that handles setup and tells the robot which port to connect to.

Testing so far covers ARM 64-bit and x86 64-bit. The team wants ARM 32-bit and possibly x86 32-bit working too, so the server can run on older single board computers. Support for the original BotVac Connected did not make the first release and is being worked on.

See more on GitHub.