Roomote iPhone App

Roomote is an app used to control your iRobot Roomba or Create robot with your iPhone. It's a Roomba remote!

Roomote lets you control your robot with a simple button interface, touch gestures, or even the accelerometer (tilting your iPhone)!

To use Roomote, you'll need the following:
1. A Roomba or Create robot
2. A serial cable or bluetooth adapter for your robot
3. The Roomote Server software (free) for your Mac computer (no Windows version yet)
4. Your iPhone must be have WiFi access to your computer

Unfortunately, you cannot connect directly to your robot with the Roomote app (Apple does not allow access to the Bluetooth interface on the iPhone). You need the free Roomote Server application for your Mac computer which relays commands from your iPhone to your robot. Get it at http://www.brianhpratt.net/roomote/

There you will also find instructions for the Roomote Server app and the Roomote iPhone app.

The Roomote Server app is open source, so if you'd like to port it to Windows, be my guest! Feel free to contact me if you need help with that.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• roomba
• irobot
• create
• iphone
• ipod touch
• iphone app
• free
• app store

[BLA2K102]

What versions does it work with?

[roomote]

@BLA2K102 I've heard confirmation of it working on 500 series Roomba and Create robots. It should also work with 400, 600, and 700 series Roombas, though I haven't had anyone report back yea or nay on those.

[keetond]

where did you get the 232 to bluetooth adapter.. at the very least what model/ manufacturer is it

[roomote]

@keetond Just Google "Rootooth" to find it!

[xenderblade]

Is this app working with roomba 780?

[roomote]

@xenderblade I haven't tried it myself, but I think it will work!

[roomote]

@red5678 Unfortunately, that isn't an option without building an iPhone-specific Bluetooth (or Wi-Fi) module for the Roomba. Apple doesn't let programmers use the Bluetooth interface on the iPhone like that. So we're stuck with a computer in the middle!

[roomote]

@perezed1333 Your mom is fake :-P

[swedanica]

Would be nice if they weren't so noisy.

[Colmaets]

The app looks great, but absolutely useless...

[Semancik1650]

cool <:-D

[chanceturcotte]

Ok... someone has to program the remote control so you can see the camera of the iphone too. Then you could mount the iphone on the roomba and use vnc server software on the iphone access and drive your vacuum from anywhere in the world. It would also then be a surveillance unit.