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Does anyone have any recommendations for a vacuum bot? I remember seeing a roomba years ago and it seemed fairly silly.

arnvald 4y ago
I use Roomba for vacuuming + Braava for moping and I'm very happy with the combo. Every Saturday morning they clean one floor and go back to charging, in the afternoon I take them upstairs to clean the other floor and it's done. The only thing I need to do regularly is to fill water tank in Braava and wash the moping pad, and every once a while replace the bag in Roomba self-emptying base. One thing to note is that this requires fairly high-end models, at least in case of Roomba. I used some e-series model before and I wasn't happy. Now I have i7 series and it's a big difference (primarily in self-learning and navigation)
greggman3 4y ago
I'm pretty happy with Anker's brand Eufy. They're relatively quiet. I have hard floors with throw rugs. I've heard roombas are too loud to use if you're home where as I can work in the same room with my Eufy running
- vorpalhex 4y ago
  I have an older Eufy and it's pretty dumb but it works well and is cheap.
MikeKusold 4y ago
If you want to use Valetudo, Z10 Pro and L10 are the only two recommended models.
- jrudolph 4y ago
  This. To be fair that info is very hard to discover on the website (I looked it up in the docs code that generates the website because I found that easier to parse like a database of all models). I own an L10 and am very happily running valetudo on it. Someone should make a business out of selling them pre-flashed with valetudo for a less technical audience…
  - hypfer 4y ago
    > Someone should make a business out of selling them pre-flashed with valetudo for a less technical audience… Please don't. Attracting a less technical audience to the project would be immensely harmful to it. It is already quite difficult to deal with issues that technical people might have. You simply do not want everyone to use your open source project. There is also no point in doing so. Why would one want to make their own life harder?
    - stavros 4y ago
      I don't know if by "make their own life harder" you mean the maintainer (you) or the user, but, as a user, valetudo has saved me. The original Xiaomi app is buggy, slow, and phones home, but Valetudo just works locally. It's amazing, thank you!
  - voxadam 4y ago
    > Someone should make a business out of selling them pre-flashed with valetudo for a less technical audience… From Why Valetudo[0]: First of all, please do not try to convince people to use Valetudo. We all know how terribly it usually turns out when people try to convince their friends to use linux on their desktop. Using Valetudo only makes sense if you understand its goals and feel like they are important to you. Everything else will fail. It is perfectly fine to continue using the cloud if you don’t really care about its downsides. Do not flame people for doing that. You can be a bit snarky about downtimes, lag and other cloud shenanigans though :) [0] https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/why-valetudo.html https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/why-valetudo.html

I use Roomba for vacuuming + Braava for moping and I'm very happy with the combo. Every Saturday morning they clean one floor and go back to charging, in the afternoon I take them upstairs to clean the other floor and it's done. The only thing I need to do regularly is to fill water tank in Braava and wash the moping pad, and every once a while replace the bag in Roomba self-emptying base. One thing to note is that this requires fairly high-end models, at least in case of Roomba. I used some e-series model before and I wasn't happy. Now I have i7 series and it's a big difference (primarily in self-learning and navigation)

greggman3 4y ago

I'm pretty happy with Anker's brand Eufy. They're relatively quiet. I have hard floors with throw rugs. I've heard roombas are too loud to use if you're home where as I can work in the same room with my Eufy running

vorpalhex 4y ago
I have an older Eufy and it's pretty dumb but it works well and is cheap.

MikeKusold 4y ago

If you want to use Valetudo, Z10 Pro and L10 are the only two recommended models.

jrudolph 4y ago
This. To be fair that info is very hard to discover on the website (I looked it up in the docs code that generates the website because I found that easier to parse like a database of all models). I own an L10 and am very happily running valetudo on it. Someone should make a business out of selling them pre-flashed with valetudo for a less technical audience…
- hypfer 4y ago
  > Someone should make a business out of selling them pre-flashed with valetudo for a less technical audience… Please don't. Attracting a less technical audience to the project would be immensely harmful to it. It is already quite difficult to deal with issues that technical people might have. You simply do not want everyone to use your open source project. There is also no point in doing so. Why would one want to make their own life harder?
  - stavros 4y ago
    I don't know if by "make their own life harder" you mean the maintainer (you) or the user, but, as a user, valetudo has saved me. The original Xiaomi app is buggy, slow, and phones home, but Valetudo just works locally. It's amazing, thank you!
- voxadam 4y ago
  > Someone should make a business out of selling them pre-flashed with valetudo for a less technical audience… From Why Valetudo[0]: First of all, please do not try to convince people to use Valetudo. We all know how terribly it usually turns out when people try to convince their friends to use linux on their desktop. Using Valetudo only makes sense if you understand its goals and feel like they are important to you. Everything else will fail. It is perfectly fine to continue using the cloud if you don’t really care about its downsides. Do not flame people for doing that. You can be a bit snarky about downtimes, lag and other cloud shenanigans though :) [0] https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/why-valetudo.html https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/why-valetudo.html