# Narwal Robot Vacuum: local WebSocket control and protocol probing

> Narwal Robot Vacuum is a Home Assistant integration built around the vacuums' local WebSocket interface. It includes helpers to capture phone-to-robot traffic, decode protobuf frames from packet captures and probe commands, alongside cleaning, station and map controls.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Protocol
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-08
- Original resource: <https://github.com/sytchi/NarwalIntegration>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/sytchi/NarwalIntegration/blob/f527b72c946795d580418022b8337fbf9e20a4b0/CONTRIBUTING.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/narwal-integration-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/narwal-integration-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/narwal-integration-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Home Assistant and a Narwal model exposing the local WebSocket service on port 9002.
- **Limits:** Narwal Flow is the actively maintained model; other listed compatible models have not been retested for this fork.
- **License:** MIT license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/sytchi/NarwalIntegration/blob/f527b72c946795d580418022b8337fbf9e20a4b0/CONTRIBUTING.md>
2. <https://github.com/sytchi/NarwalIntegration/blob/f527b72c946795d580418022b8337fbf9e20a4b0/README.md>

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