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> What's the point of having it if you have to make the whole apartment inert before letting it loose. I actually find that beneficial. Takes me a couple of mi
by cel1ne 10y ago
> What's the point of having it if you have to make the whole apartment inert before letting it loose.
I actually find that beneficial. Takes me a couple of minutes and ensure that I clean up more often.
> Worse still it never seemed to learn and would often finish its job leaving huge parts of the floor untouched.
That is on purpose. Different than other robots, Roombas don't learn a floor-plan, but follow some simple, "insect-like" rules. (Travel along if you find a wall, turn around if you hit something, etc.)
It uses the length of stretches that it can drive in a straight line, to get an estimate of the room size, which it will use to adjust the runtime of it's cleaning program.
This behaviour ensures that Roomba adapts well to different rooms. It doesn't clean the entire floor in one go, but over some runs it will eventually reach everything.
- planetjones 10y agoI think you misread my first point. It's not about a clean flat. It's that normal obstacles like lamp bases, chair legs and wires for bedside lamps, etc. cause the irobot huge difficulty. It got stuck on my lamp base and scratched it badly. Nobody wants to have the light house things guarding every article as they're unsightly, costly and require battery changes. And whether the insect like rules are on purpose or not, the fact remains that after 7 days there's still a huge dust ball on my kitchen floor that the irobot continually fails to find.
- cel1ne 10y agoI don't have any lighthouses or virtual walls. I just put cables on the table or stuck them behind something so the robot won't find them. Haven't had any problems with leg chairs or lamp posts yet. Regarding the dust ball on the kitchen floor: that's what the Spot-cleaning-feature is for. Or just lift the robot and put it on the dust ball where you press "Start".
- mulletbum 10y agoI own two of these vacuums. If you run a Roomba every day, you will not have a dustball. This is just someone being disingenuous.
- planetjones 10y agoI don't like to see comments labelling someone as disingenuous here. What I said was factual hence the downvote.