xiao

xiao — Xiaomi Vacuum CLI & Mission Control

CLI + web dashboard to control a Xiaomi Robot Vacuum X20+ (model: xiaomi.vacuum.c102gl) via the Xiaomi Cloud API.

Cloud-only. This vacuum model has no local-network control path. Every command goes through Xiaomi Cloud with RC4-signed MIoT requests.

Agent-first. xiao is designed to be driven by LLM agents (Claude, OpenClaw, Cursor, Aider, Codex…) as a subprocess. If you are an agent reading this repo, start with AGENTS.md.

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Agent Quick Reference

Fact	Value
Tool name	xiao
Install	pip install xiao-cli
Verify	xiao --help → lists subcommands; exits 0
State command	xiao status (Rich panel) or xiao status --json (machine-readable)
Machine-readable	xiao status --json / xiao consumables --json; or xiao web → GET /api/status
Exit codes	0 success · 1 generic · 2 not configured · 77 auth failed · 80 room-clean accepted but still docked/charging after verification (AGENTS.md)
Agent guide	AGENTS.md — canonical commands, intent mapping, error recovery
Machine index	llms.txt

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Features

• Full vacuum control — start / stop / pause / dock / find / room / zone / spot.
• Base-station controls — mop wash, mop dry, dust collect, tray eject.
• Settings — fan speed, water level, volume, Do-Not-Disturb window.
• Consumable tracking with remaining life %.
• Schedule viewer with parsed room / day / setting data.
• Mission Control — glassmorphism web dashboard with real-time status, advanced X20+ settings controls, and a saved dark/light theme toggle.
• Auto token refresh via a persistent Chromium session (no repeated email 2FA).
• Full MIoT property/action support for c102gl.

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Installation

pip install xiao-cli
# or from source
git clone https://github.com/dacrypt/xiao.git
cd xiao && uv sync

Then install Playwright’s Chromium (needed for the cloud-login fallback):

playwright install chromium

Docker

A lightweight image is published to GHCR on every release. It’s meant for running vacuum commands against an existing config — run xiao setup cloud once on your workstation, then mount the resulting config dir:

docker run --rm -v "$HOME/.config/xiao:/root/.config/xiao" \
  ghcr.io/dacrypt/xiao status

(On macOS the host path is ~/Library/Application Support/xiao.)

The default image has no Chromium, so it can only use the cached session and stops working when that expires (~6–8 h). For long-running use, build it with docker build --build-arg WITH_PLAYWRIGHT=1 -t xiao . so silent token refresh works. To serve the dashboard from a container, bind it explicitly — xiao then requires the access token it prints:

docker run --rm -p 8120:8120 -v "$HOME/.config/xiao:/root/.config/xiao" \
  ghcr.io/dacrypt/xiao web --host 0.0.0.0

MCP server (optional)

Install with the mcp extra and xiao exposes vacuum control as a Model Context Protocol server, so hosts like Claude Desktop / Cursor / mcp.so can drive the vacuum as structured tools (no shelling out):

pip install "xiao-cli[mcp]"
xiao mcp           # speaks MCP over stdio

Host config snippet (Claude Desktop claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "xiao": { "command": "xiao", "args": ["mcp"] }
  }
}

Exposed tools: status, start_cleaning, stop_cleaning, pause_cleaning, return_to_dock, find_vacuum, consumables, clean_room, list_rooms. The server reuses the same config.toml and browser profile as the CLI.

Compatibility: Python 3.12+. Tested against vacuum model xiaomi.vacuum.c102gl on Xiaomi Cloud API as of 2024. Token refresh tested with Chromium ≥ 120 (currently running 147).

Shell completions (optional)

xiao --install-completion   # bash / zsh / fish / pwsh — auto-detected

Restart your shell afterwards. xiao <TAB> will now complete subcommands.

Handy defaults

• xiao with no subcommand prints the current vacuum status.
• XIAO_DEBUG=1 xiao ... enables verbose logging for issue reports.
• XIAO_NO_CTA=1 silences the GitHub-star banner.

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Prerequisites

Before any xiao command will work:

1. xiao installed (see above) + playwright install chromium run once.
2. xiao setup cloud completed — writes config.toml at:
   • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/xiao/config.toml
   • Linux: ~/.config/xiao/config.toml

That’s it. xiao setup cloud will also offer to run xiao setup browser-login at the end: a one-time Chromium window where you log into account.xiaomi.com. The session cookies are saved to a private profile under your config dir, so every future token refresh runs headless — no captcha, no email 2FA.

You can rerun xiao setup browser-login anytime if a token expires or the profile is cleared. Power users who already maintain a Chromium session exposed over CDP can skip the profile entirely by setting XIAO_CDP_PORT=18800 (or whatever port).

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Setup

xiao setup cloud         # Interactive: email → password → region → device discovery → save
xiao setup show          # Print current config (tokens redacted)

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Quick Start

xiao status              # Current state, battery, fan speed, mode
xiao status --full       # Comprehensive status (+ DND, water, consumables)
xiao start               # Full-house clean
xiao stop                # Stop cleaning
xiao dock                # Return to charging dock
xiao find                # Beep to locate vacuum
xiao report              # Full report: status + consumables + schedules + history

Example xiao status:

╭─────────────────────────────── Vacuum Status ────────────────────────────────╮
│   State:    Drying                                                           │
│   Battery:  ███████████░░░░░░░░░ 56%                                         │
│   Fan:      turbo                                                            │
│   Charging: Charging                                                         │
│   dry_left_time_min:  470                                                    │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Example xiao consumables:

                Consumables
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Component  ┃ Life ┃ Hours Left ┃ Status ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━┩
│ Main Brush │  90% │       272h │        │
│ Side Brush │  86% │       172h │        │
│ Filter     │  81% │       122h │        │
│ Mop Pad    │  72% │        57h │        │
└────────────┴──────┴────────────┴────────┘

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Command Reference

Every command. One row each. Full catalog also lives in AGENTS.md.

Command	What it does	Notable flags
xiao status [--full] [--json]	State + battery + fan + mode	--full adds DND/water/consumables; --json for machine-readable output
xiao start	Full-house clean (always mop-washes first)	—
xiao stop / xiao pause	Stop the current clean. In cloud mode the X20+ has no pause action, so pause also stops (and says so)	—
xiao dock	Return to charging dock	—
xiao find	Beep to locate	—
xiao clean -r <id|alias>	Clean one or more rooms	-r repeatable, --speed, -w, --repeat
xiao clean -z "x1,y1,x2,y2"	Clean a rectangle (coords in mm)	-z repeatable, --speed, -w, --repeat
xiao clean -s	Spot clean (local miIO mode only — cloud mode exits 1; use a small -z zone)	--speed, -w
xiao wash / xiao dry [--stop]	Base-station mop wash / dry	—
xiao dust / xiao eject	Dust collect / eject tray	—
xiao settings speed <level>	Fan: silent | standard | medium | turbo	no arg → print current
xiao settings water <level>	Mop water: low | medium | high	no arg → print current
xiao settings volume <0-100>	Voice volume	no arg → print current
xiao settings dnd on/off	Do-not-disturb	--start HH:MM --end HH:MM
xiao settings resume-after-charge on/off	Auto-resume cleaning after charging	no arg → print current
xiao settings carpet-boost on/off	Boost suction on carpets	no arg → print current
xiao settings child-lock on/off	Lock physical buttons on the robot	no arg → print current
xiao settings smart-wash on/off	Toggle smart mop washing at the base station	no arg → print current
xiao settings carpet-avoidance avoid|auto	Choose whether carpets are actively avoided or handled automatically	no arg → print current
xiao settings clean-rags-tip <0-120>	Set base-station mop wash reminder interval in minutes	no arg → print current
xiao map rooms / xiao rooms	List room IDs from the device room map, its schedules and your aliases	—
xiao map show	Show what the cloud exposes about the map	—
xiao rooms alias <id> "<name>"	Add friendly-name alias	—
xiao rooms rename <id|alias> "<new>"	Rename an alias	—
xiao schedule	Show parsed schedules in a compact table	--json for machine-readable output
xiao schedule list	Alias for xiao schedule	--json
xiao consumables [--json]	Brush / filter / mop health	--json for machine-readable output
xiao consumables reset <part>	Reset counter (main_brush | side_brush | filter | mop | all)	—
xiao report	Full combined report	—
xiao cloud-login	Force full re-login (captcha + 2FA)	—
xiao web	Launch Mission Control dashboard (localhost only by default)	--port 8120, --host, --token
xiao raw <siid> <aiid> [params…]	Raw MIoT call (escape hatch)	—

Flag reference

• --speed / --fan: silent · standard · medium · turbo
• -w / --water: low · medium · high
• --repeat N: integer ≥ 1, default 1

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Room Cleaning

xiao clean -r 4                   # Clean Study
xiao clean -r 3 -r 7              # Clean Living Room + Dining Room
xiao clean --speed turbo -r 8     # Turbo clean Kitchen
xiao clean -r 3 -w high           # Living Room with high water (heavy mop)

Room cleaning goes over your LAN. The X20+ is Dreame-built: through the Xiaomi cloud it answers the room-clean action with code 0 and then ignores it. xiao therefore sends the Dreame start-clean command (work mode 18) to the robot directly over miIO, using the device token from config.toml and the LAN IP the cloud reports. The machine running xiao must be on the same network as the robot; if it can’t reach it, xiao falls back to the cloud action and warns that the robot may ignore it.

If the robot is drying its mop, xiao stops the drying before starting any clean (rooms, zones or the whole house), like the Mi Home app does. While drying, the X20+ acknowledges a start and ignores it.

Room Management

Room IDs are specific to your vacuum’s map — they’re generated by the Xiaomi Home app the first time the robot maps the house.

xiao map rooms                    # ALWAYS run this first to discover IDs
xiao rooms alias 3 "Living Room"  # Create an alias
xiao rooms rename 3 "Lounge"      # Rename

Once aliased, names also work:

xiao clean -r "Living Room" -r "Kitchen"

If the X20+ accepts a room-clean command but still looks docked/charging a few seconds later, xiao clean now exits with code 80 and warns that Xiaomi can acknowledge room actions without actually moving the robot. In that case, re-check room IDs with xiao map rooms and fall back to xiao start if needed.

Rule for agents: never pass a room ID you haven’t verified with xiao map rooms. Maps can be re-generated by the Xiaomi Home app.

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Zone Cleaning

Zones clean an arbitrary rectangle — useful for spot work (“just the dining table area”) or for rooms the vacuum hasn’t segmented correctly.

A zone is four coordinates in millimeters on the vacuum’s internal map:

x1,y1,x2,y2
└─┬─┘ └─┬─┘
 top-    bottom-
 left    right

On the X20+ (a Dreame-built map) (0,0) is near where the map was started, usually the dock, and coordinates can be negative. The easiest way to get real numbers is to draw a zone once inside the Xiaomi Home app and copy them. Like rooms, zones are sent over the LAN (Dreame start-clean, work mode 19); there is no cloud fallback.

# Single zone
xiao clean -z "25000,25000,35000,35000"

# Multiple zones in one run
xiao clean -z "23000,24000,27000,28000" \
           -z "31000,25000,35000,30000"

# Zone + turbo fan + high water (deep-clean a specific patch)
xiao clean -z "25000,25000,35000,35000" --speed turbo -w high

# Two passes over the same zone
xiao clean -z "25000,25000,35000,35000" --repeat 2

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Base Station

xiao wash                # Start mop washing
xiao dry                 # Start mop drying
xiao dry --stop          # Stop drying
xiao dust                # Dust collection
xiao eject               # Eject base tray

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Settings

xiao settings speed turbo        # silent | standard | medium | turbo
xiao settings water high         # low | medium | high (mop water level)
xiao settings volume 50          # 0-100
xiao settings dnd on --start 22:00 --end 07:00
xiao settings dnd off
xiao settings resume-after-charge on
xiao settings carpet-boost off
xiao settings child-lock on
xiao settings smart-wash on
xiao settings carpet-avoidance auto
xiao settings clean-rags-tip 45

# Call any of the above without an argument to print the current value:
xiao settings speed              # → Current fan speed: turbo
xiao settings water              # → Water level: High (raw: 3)
xiao settings child-lock         # → Child lock: Off (raw: 0)
xiao settings smart-wash         # → Smart wash: On (raw: 1)
xiao settings carpet-avoidance   # → Carpet avoidance: Avoid (raw: 1)
xiao settings clean-rags-tip     # → Clean rags tip: 45 min (raw: 45)

Machine-readable output

Use --json on read commands for deterministic parsing:

xiao status --json
# {
#   "state": "Drying",
#   "battery": 84,
#   "fan_speed": "turbo",
#   "charging": "Charging",
#   "dry_left_time_min": 388
# }

xiao consumables --json

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Agent Intent Mapping

Short table of “user says X → run Y”. The canonical, longer version lives in AGENTS.md.

User request	Command
“clean the house”	xiao start
“stop” / “cancel”	xiao stop
“go home” / “dock”	xiao dock
“battery?” / “status?”	xiao status
“clean the <room>”	xiao map rooms → find id → xiao clean -r <id>
“turbo mode in <room>”	xiao clean -r <id> --speed turbo
“deep mop <room>”	xiao clean -r <id> --speed turbo -w high
“wash the mop”	xiao wash
“empty the dust bin”	xiao dust
“do not disturb 22 to 7”	xiao settings dnd on --start 22:00 --end 07:00
“open the dashboard”	xiao web --port 8120

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Error Recovery

Agents should apply these in order before asking the user.

Signal	Retry step	If still failing
Exit 77, or stderr contains token / 401 / auth	Re-run the same command once (silent profile refresh fires on next call)	xiao setup browser-login, then xiao cloud-login
Exit 1 + rejected by the vacuum (code N)	Check xiao status (docked? error? state 21?)	Report the code to the user
State: 21 / WashingMopPause	The user refills clean water / empties dirty water, then xiao start resumes the paused job	Press physical play button on the robot
xiao clean -r <id> returns code 0 but xiao status after 10s still shows Idle/Docked	Fall back to xiao start	Report to user
Fan speed set rejected while docked	Start the clean first, then set speed; or pass --speed inline on the clean command	—
xiao map rooms → “No rooms found”	No room map exposed and no schedule references rooms — get the ID from the Xiaomi Home app and xiao rooms alias <id> "Name"	—

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Mission Control (Web Dashboard)

xiao web --port 8120
# Open http://localhost:8120

The dashboard can start the robot and change settings, so it is locked down by default:

• It listens on 127.0.0.1 only and rejects requests whose Host isn’t localhost (blocks DNS-rebinding from web pages you visit).
• State-changing requests must be same-origin and carry the X-Xiao-Client: dashboard header, so other sites can’t drive it (CSRF).
• xiao web --host 0.0.0.0 (LAN access) generates an access token and prints a http://<host>:8120/?token=… URL; every API call then needs it. Pass your own with --token or XIAO_WEB_TOKEN. Traffic is plain HTTP — trusted networks only.

Glassmorphism + neon sci-fi dashboard:

• Animated vacuum SVG (pulses cleaning, dims docked).
• Battery ring with gradient + estimated runtime.
• Room selector with fan / water presets.
• Base-station controls with status badges.
• Consumable health bars (color-coded, days-until-replacement).
• Cleaning history stats, schedule table, and a settings panel that now covers advanced X20+ vacuum-extend controls.
• Keyboard: S=start, X=stop, D=dock, F=find, R=refresh.
• Dark/light theme toggle with saved browser preference.
• Mobile-first responsive, auto-refresh every 10s.

REST API

All endpoints at http://localhost:8120/api/ — use these for programmatic / JSON consumption. POST requests need X-Xiao-Client: dashboard; if a token is configured, every call (except /health) also needs X-Xiao-Token: <token>. Action endpoints return {"ok": bool, "code": int, "result": …} — ok is false when the vacuum rejected the command.

curl -s -X POST -H 'X-Xiao-Client: dashboard' http://localhost:8120/api/dock

Endpoint	Method	Description
/status	GET	State, battery, fan, mode
/status/live	GET	Minimal payload for fast polling (5s)
/consumables	GET	Brush / filter health
/rooms	GET	Rooms from the device map, schedules and aliases: [{id, name, sources}]
/schedules	GET	Parsed schedules
/settings	GET	DND, volume, fan, water, resume-after-charge, carpet-boost, child-lock, smart-wash, carpet-avoidance, clean-rags-tip snapshot
/settings/resume-after-charge	POST	{enabled} toggle auto-resume after charging
/settings/carpet-boost	POST	{enabled} toggle carpet suction boost
/settings/child-lock	POST	{enabled} toggle hardware button lock
/settings/smart-wash	POST	{enabled} toggle smart mop washing
/settings/carpet-avoidance	POST	{mode} where mode is avoid or auto
/settings/clean-rags-tip	POST	{minutes} where minutes is 0-120
/start	POST	Start clean
/stop	POST	Stop
/dock	POST	Return to dock
/clean/rooms	POST	{room_ids, fan, water}
/voice	POST	{action: clean|dock|stop|status, room?, zone?, lang: es|en} → {ok, say} (for Siri Shortcuts; always 200)
/clean/zone	POST	{zones: [[x1,y1,x2,y2], …], fan, water} (mm, same as xiao clean -z)
/wash	POST	Mop wash
/dry	POST	Start/stop dry
/dust	POST	Dust collect
/settings/speed	POST	{level: 0-3}
/settings/volume	POST	{level: 0-100}

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Apple Home & Siri (Matter)

The X20+ has no Matter firmware and HomeKit has no vacuum service, so xiao ships a Matterbridge plugin that exposes it as a Matter robot vacuum with your rooms in the Home app (voice: Siri in US English, or the Shortcuts below in any language).

integrations/matterbridge-xiao/scripts/install-macos.sh

This runs xiao web and Matterbridge as login services on the Mac. Then pair the Aspiradora node from the iPhone Home app (iOS 18.4+; a HomePod or Apple TV is needed for remote control). Full guide: integrations/matterbridge-xiao/README.md.

Siri in Spanish (or any language): Shortcuts

Apple only understands robot-vacuum voice commands in US English, so «Oye Siri, limpia la cocina» goes to whatever else is in the “Cocina” room. Siri does run any shortcut by its name, in any language. xiao generates one shortcut per room, plus house / dock / stop / status. Each one calls POST /api/voice on xiao web, and Siri reads back the answer.

The names all start with «Aspiradora…» («Aspiradora a la cocina»). A phrase that names a Home room, like «limpia la cocina», is taken by Siri as a command for that room (its light), and the shortcut never runs.

XIAO_HOST=0.0.0.0 integrations/matterbridge-xiao/scripts/install-macos.sh   # xiao web on the LAN (token in config.toml)
xiao shortcuts export --out ~/Desktop/xiao-shortcuts                        # signed .shortcut files

AirDrop the files to the iPhone and tap Agregar atajo on each one. Then: «Oye Siri, aspiradora a la cocina», «Oye Siri, aspiradora a la base», «Oye Siri, cómo está la aspiradora». Options:

• --name "7=Aspiradora a la cocina nueva" renames one room’s shortcut.
• --zone "comedor=x1,y1,x2,y2" adds a zone.
• --url http://<tailscale-name>:8120 makes the shortcuts work away from home through Tailscale.

The files contain the xiao web token, so don’t share them. Requests from the Mac itself (localhost, like the Matterbridge plugin) don’t need the token. Don’t put a reverse proxy on the same Mac that rewrites Host to localhost: LAN requests would then skip the token.

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Use xiao as a Skill in an Agent

Because xiao is just a CLI, teaching an agent to drive your vacuum is really just teaching it which commands to run. Paste this prompt into OpenClaw (or any LLM agent that can run a subprocess) to bootstrap:

“Set up the Xiaomi vacuum skill”

I want you to act as my Xiaomi vacuum controller using the `xiao` CLI
(https://github.com/dacrypt/xiao). Read AGENTS.md from that repo and
follow its instructions. Then set it up end-to-end:

1. Install:    pip install xiao-cli && playwright install chromium
2. Verify:     xiao --help
3. Walk me through `xiao setup cloud` interactively (ask me for email,
   password, region — one of us/cn/eu/ru/sg/tw/i2 — then discover device).
4. Run `xiao setup browser-login`: a Chromium window opens at
   account.xiaomi.com, I'll log in once (captcha / 2FA), and xiao keeps
   that session in its private profile for silent token refresh.
5. Confirm with `xiao status` and `xiao consumables`.

From now on, translate vacuum-related requests ("clean the kitchen",
"send it home", "what's the battery?", "turbo in the living room") into
the right `xiao` command using AGENTS.md's intent-mapping table. Never
guess room IDs — always run `xiao map rooms` first.

On errors, follow the Error Recovery protocol in AGENTS.md before
asking me.

Works the same way in Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, Codex. A ready-made Claude Code skill ships with the repo at .claude/skills/xiao/SKILL.md — it’s picked up automatically when you open this directory in Claude Code.

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Cloud Token Refresh

Xiaomi Cloud serviceTokens expire every ~6-8h. A full re-login requires captcha + email 2FA, which can’t be automated headlessly. To avoid that, xiao keeps a long-lived Xiaomi session in its own Chromium profile (<config dir>/chromium, owner-only permissions).

Seed it once:

xiao setup browser-login   # opens Chromium at account.xiaomi.com — log in, then close the window

(xiao setup cloud offers to do this at the end.)

Refresh flow (when the saved serviceToken is missing/expired, core/token_refresh.py):

1. Launches the profile headless with Playwright (launch_persistent_context).
2. Navigates to account.xiaomi.com/pass/serviceLogin?sid=xiaomiio&_json=true to obtain a fresh _sign — httpOnly cookies travel automatically.
3. Submits a hidden <form> POST to serviceLoginAuth2 (form submission because fetch/xhr don’t send httpOnly cookies). Credentials are passed to the page as data, never spliced into script source. Response yields ssecurity + location.
4. Follows location, which sets the serviceToken cookie on the redirect.
5. Returns {userId, serviceToken, ssecurity} to the caller → persisted to config.toml.

The same flow works from the CLI, the dashboard and the MCP server (Playwright’s sync API is moved off any running asyncio loop automatically).

Power users: set XIAO_CDP_PORT=<port> to reuse a Chromium you already run with --remote-debugging-port; xiao tries it first and falls back to the profile.

Full login fallback (xiao cloud-login, or automatically when the profile has no session): a Playwright login that handles the terms dialog and email verification. The 6-digit code is read from Gmail if the optional gog Gmail CLI is installed (searching only mail newer than the login attempt); otherwise xiao asks you to type it. Set XIAO_DEBUG=1 to get debug logs and login screenshots in <config dir>/debug/.

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Troubleshooting

(Agents: the machine-oriented decision tree is in Error Recovery above — this section is for humans.)

Exit code 77 / “Cloud login failed” The browser profile has no valid Xiaomi session (first run, or the session was revoked). Run xiao setup browser-login and log in once; future refreshes are silent again. As a fallback, xiao cloud-login performs a full re-login with captcha + email 2FA.

Cloud mode enabled but not configured (exit 2) Run xiao setup cloud — the wizard asks for email / password / region and discovers your device.

Commands hang or time out Usually a Xiaomi Cloud issue. Check connectivity (curl -I https://api.io.mi.com). The RC4-signed endpoint can also return 500s during Xiaomi maintenance windows.

xiao clean -r 3 returns OK but the vacuum doesn’t move Known issue with room-specific cleans on some X20+ firmwares. Fallback: xiao start (full-house clean). Tracked in BACKLOG.md.

“No rooms found” from xiao map rooms The X20+ cloud API exposes no room list, so xiao collects room IDs from the device’s schedules and your aliases. If the robot has no map yet, run xiao start once end-to-end. Then either create a schedule for the rooms in the Xiaomi Home app (xiao picks the IDs up from it) or add them by hand with xiao rooms alias <id> "Kitchen".

Fan speed setting is rejected while docked Some MIoT properties are only writable while the robot is off the dock. Start a clean first, or pass --speed inline on the clean command.

WashingMopPause (state 21) This is the official X20+ state name: the robot paused its job because the clean-water tank needs a refill or the dirty-water tank needs emptying. The robot can’t detect that you did it. In the Mi Home app you confirm it, and xiao does the same: xiao start (or ▶️ in Apple Home, or «Aspiradora continúa» with Siri) sends Dreame’s start-washing confirmation (siid 4, aiid 4, "1,1") over the LAN, and the robot washes the mop and resumes the paused job. New room/zone jobs are refused while it’s paused (HTTP 409). If the robot still sits in state 21, press the physical play button on the top of the robot.

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Cleaning Cycle

When you call xiao start, the X20+ runs the full sequence:

1. Washing mop — washes pads at base station (~2-3 min).
2. Cleaning — sweeps/mops the house.
3. Returning — back to dock.
4. Drying — auto-dries mop pads.

start always triggers a mop wash first, even in sweep-only mode.

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Why this project exists

(Read this if you like origin stories. Agents can skip to AGENTS.md.)

xiao started as a specific itch: drive my Xiaomi vacuum from an LLM agent — first OpenClaw, then Claude.

The internet wasn’t encouraging. ChatGPT and most forum threads said some variant of “this model is cloud-only, the API is signed, you can’t control it from a script.” That turned out to be wrong — just tedious. Sitting down with Claude Code and poking at my own robot (sniffing requests, reversing the RC4 signing, mapping the MIoT spec for xiaomi.vacuum.c102gl), the protocol gave up pretty quickly.

Once the CLI worked, the rest followed fast. Anthropic’s general guidance for letting agents touch the real world is unsexy but effective: give them a CLI. The same binary you run by hand is the one the agent execs. So xiao is deliberately CLI-first — the dashboard, the REST API, the skill integrations are all thin layers over the same core.

At that point it stops mattering which LLM is driving, because the vacuum doesn’t care. This repo is really a skill — a small, reusable capability you can bolt onto any agent. Routines, voice assistants, cross-device automations, home dashboards — all downstream.

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Development

uv sync
uv run pytest tests/ -v
uv run ruff check src/ tests/
uv run ruff format src/ tests/
uv run mypy src/xiao/

See CONTRIBUTING.md for source-tree layout, MIoT spec notes, and PR guidelines.

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Privacy

xiao collects nothing. No telemetry, no analytics, no backend. Your Xiaomi credentials and session tokens live exclusively on your machine. See PRIVACY.md for the full statement.

License

MIT