“It could have been worse,” one owner incredibly concluded.

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      2 months ago

      Even to update firmware, your phone could download the blob from the servers and then send it to the device via Bluetooth.

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      I don’t think you’d even need the device itself to be connected to the internet for firmware. Your phone connects to the internet, gathers up the firmware, sends it to the device over BT. That’s how my helmet comms work.

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      Good point. But they market the ability to interact with the vacuum machine when you’re away from the house and it seems that this feature gains them more customers than they lose.