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Best Robot Vacuum: Buyer’s Guide

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Re: Best Robot Vacuum: Buyer’s Guide

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tudorw wrote: post #4

I've owned Roomba since the first generation, they are well built and fun to have around, they also sweep well, the hoovering is limited to dust, the back to home has never worked that great, but then my floors are not that flat so ymmv, given that hoovering is actually something that needs to be done this is a genuine time saving device, maintained well they last around 4 years given a new battery a couple of times,…

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Post by draugadrotten »

I have a neato botvac. Great device but it has some serious flaws. The biggest one in my opinion is a lack of long-term memory. It gets stuck in the same places every time, every day. I wish there was a way to simply speak to it and say "don't go there" - and it would remember it next day. It could use Alexa or Siri to do that. The robot also needs the floor to be cleaned from socks, cables and whatever before it can work, but I suppose that is the same for a manual vacuum, and it's not all bad that these things have to be removed. If the robot could be smart enough to not digest cables and socks, it would be better but for me it's not a dealbreaker. The furniture humping is really bad. The robot will find a chair it likes and keep humping it until a human intervenes or the battery runs out. Again, the device should have a long-term memory and learn about places and things to avoid next day.

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Post by xmichael99 »

Neat to see they seem to be improving. I've had two different models years ago, both only lasted a few months and required you basically sit and watch them... In the end it was simply easier to sweep and vacuum the floor myself, from the comments here it doesn't sound like much has changed.

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Post by ilitirit »

I've got a Neato Botvac Connected. Works for me (single dweller in a bachelor apartment).

Problems:

- The app SUCKS. I can't stress this enough. You can't even request that the bot return to its dock without first asking it to do something else.

- It took forever to setup the WiFi. Randomly it just worked after trying 5 or 6 times, repeating the same procedure.

- There was no documentation for the API until very recently. And as far as I know, you need to connect to their cloud services to make use of the API.

https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/2619/hacking-a-neato-robot...

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