My dad bought the arlec ones. One died out of four so far. All my tplink ones still doing strong.
well if you look at them, I think its 5v DC to USB. so you would just need to plug it into a USB port. or a power plug to usb.(I have a few of them from my mobile phone). (just read the description, should say the DAC, USB power Cable etc)
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That would work. Just check how many watts the powerboard / plug can take.
Will work on anything that has a good old fashioned physical on off switch. So touch lamps wonāt work, tvs wonāt work, etcā¦
I should have a spare one around the place. Thanks!
I reckon its the closet thing you will get to a budget crack at it. maybe go for the one that has the few reviews on eBay
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Anybody had experience with the robot vacuums?
Moved house recently to a place with a lot of floorspace covered in very light coloured tiles and light grey carpets. Coupled with a cat and dog, this has made vaccuming a thrice weekly occurrence. Aināt nobody got time for that.
We have one. Does a great job but only thing is the one we got is noisey. It canāt get to all the spots but we can put it in a room and shut the door and it does a pretty good job.
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Also we can set a timer so when we arenāt home it just starts what time itās set for and when the battery starts to get flat it makes its way back to the docking station and recharges.
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What did you go with?
I dont mind the noise so much as the plan is to program it to slave away when nobody is home (except the cat, but fark her).
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Same here Iām very patient, tech is my living but kodi drove me Nuts. Plus I found it a bit iffy on pi. Do you reckon its more stable these days? Iām thinking maybe Iāll get a little i5 nuc and try agajn maybe. As I exited last time the āfreeā "streaming " ( nudge wink) had largely been shut down which made it even more pointless at that point. Has this changed?
This is the one we got. It is sold by Kogan. The reviews were pretty good so purchased it. We havenāt tried the timer yet. The noise is probably not as loud as a normal vacuum but if I was watching the footy and it was working around me and we are getting a bad run with the umps I reckon it would get thrown out the window 
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ahhh i see where youāre up to now
you definitely need actual accounts for streaming services to work
i use mine to stream tv and movies from a uhhh very local server
I figured all that āotherā stuff was long gone. I dont know, but to me chrome cast just makes it all too easy for streaming services, plus I have wired chromecast and itās just too easy and the quality is as good as it gets. I guess kodi is good as a media server platform if you have lots of if local media
Ever wanted to vacuum under one single chair - and nowhere else in the house - about 35 times a week?
Then a robot vacuum is for you.
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I have the Xiaomi Vacuum after another blitzer recommended it. Two years, running very nicely and still getting firmware updates.
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A robot vacuum gets firmware updates 
Seriously? Mine doesnāt do that.
So does my toilet 
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Do they have any that stretch to 40?
Thereās frequentā¦ unpleasantness in that chair.