Are there even any? I only know of Bosch, but it’s basically just a rebranded Ecovacs.
Ideally it has home assistant integration
Edit: After a quick research I came up with this:
- Vorwerk: Way too expensive. Premium price for a very basic device
- Kärcher seems like a solid choice
- Dyson is expensive and the performance does not quite seem to match the price
- Philips, Electrolux and Miele also offer vacuum robots, but I don’t know how good they are, yet
- There’s also Samsung, which is not european, of course, but at least not chinese or american
But a limited one. You do the flashing once.
When it is freed from it’s manufacturer this way, there is usually no need anymore for connecting it to the internet, and therefore you may become rather lazy with updates.
Do you then still receive bug fixes or similar?
You can flash updated images through Dustbuilder, as long as they are available on it.
Ofc you can if you want.