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So, I'm guessing many of us geeks in here have robot vacuums by now. I certainly do and I don't really see myself going without one of these in the future. Time for a thread?
I have a Xiaomi Roborock II S5, which is another way of saying a vacuum manufactured by Roborock but sold by Xiaomi, so I have to use the Xiaomi home automation app to run it. It's a year old now and it's been faithfully running every weekday at 3pm since new. I just took it apart to see if there was any dust or dirt in the wrong places, but everything looked fine. I guess I'll treat it to a set of new brushes and a filter soon.
Back in the day I decided to try this robot vacuum malarky by buying a second hand Roomba that lacked all sorts of smarts. It just changed direction whenever it bumped into something, including my IKEA TV bench with its bump-to-open doors. When battery was running low it started looking for the infrared beacon that was the charging station. If it didn't manage to pick up the beacon before it ran out of electricity it just died. If it managed to find the charger in time it usually pushed it around without managing to mate with the charging contacts... and then it died. I would say that it successfully docked about twice for every five cleaning cycles.
You also had to remember to turn it on before leaving in the morning, which meant it never got used. If I did remember to turn it on I had to remember to empty it afterwards because it couldn't store more than a cleaning cycle's worth of dirt before it started leaving little turds all over the flat.
The Roborock goes for a week before I have to even touch it, it has smart navigation to make sure it actually cleans the whole area, and if your house is too big for a single charge it goes back to the dock for a while mid-clean before completing the job. My ~50 square meters are nowhere near big enough to run the battery down even with the suction set to full tilt.
Every couple of months or so it eats a sock and dies, or rips my phone charger out of the wall. 99% of the time it just does its job and goes back to the dock afterwards. The dock is under the bed because you never have to carry the robot back manually. When it's time to empty it you just send it to the kitchen using "pin and go" the app. You then knock the contents of the dust container into the bin and press the "return to dock" button.
So what robots do you guys have, and most importantly, what are they called? I originally named mine Bengt but it's now Edgar, from J Edgar Hoover of course. Had to steal that one from a friend because his family didn't let him use it. ?
I have a Xiaomi Roborock II S5, which is another way of saying a vacuum manufactured by Roborock but sold by Xiaomi, so I have to use the Xiaomi home automation app to run it. It's a year old now and it's been faithfully running every weekday at 3pm since new. I just took it apart to see if there was any dust or dirt in the wrong places, but everything looked fine. I guess I'll treat it to a set of new brushes and a filter soon.
Back in the day I decided to try this robot vacuum malarky by buying a second hand Roomba that lacked all sorts of smarts. It just changed direction whenever it bumped into something, including my IKEA TV bench with its bump-to-open doors. When battery was running low it started looking for the infrared beacon that was the charging station. If it didn't manage to pick up the beacon before it ran out of electricity it just died. If it managed to find the charger in time it usually pushed it around without managing to mate with the charging contacts... and then it died. I would say that it successfully docked about twice for every five cleaning cycles.
You also had to remember to turn it on before leaving in the morning, which meant it never got used. If I did remember to turn it on I had to remember to empty it afterwards because it couldn't store more than a cleaning cycle's worth of dirt before it started leaving little turds all over the flat.
The Roborock goes for a week before I have to even touch it, it has smart navigation to make sure it actually cleans the whole area, and if your house is too big for a single charge it goes back to the dock for a while mid-clean before completing the job. My ~50 square meters are nowhere near big enough to run the battery down even with the suction set to full tilt.
Every couple of months or so it eats a sock and dies, or rips my phone charger out of the wall. 99% of the time it just does its job and goes back to the dock afterwards. The dock is under the bed because you never have to carry the robot back manually. When it's time to empty it you just send it to the kitchen using "pin and go" the app. You then knock the contents of the dust container into the bin and press the "return to dock" button.
So what robots do you guys have, and most importantly, what are they called? I originally named mine Bengt but it's now Edgar, from J Edgar Hoover of course. Had to steal that one from a friend because his family didn't let him use it. ?