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Does anyone have a robot vacuum? Do you love it? What brand/ model?

Posted by sycor Apr 14 '23, 06:51

Almost my entire downstairs is vinyl flooring and I don't think I ever realized how much they attract dust. And I'm not trying to swiffer every other day.

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We have a Eufy. Got it on sale and works with Alexa which were our two requirements. -- (link) - spamlet Apr 14, 07:29 2
- Oh and it's on sale. -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 07:49 1
  - We bought a Eufy for our son for Christmas. He loves it in his apartment. -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 07:50
My brother has a roomba and loves it. At least one of the dogs hates it, the others seem to tolerate it. - ty97 Apr 14, 07:24 1
- I think my brother has to only empty it once during a complete roomba'ing of his entire main floor? - ty97 Apr 14, 07:26
Roomba. We love it. Game changer. -- nm - MDH Apr 14, 07:08 5
- is it good on hard floors? (i'm hijacking this thread, we've been considering one for downstairs due to dog hair, etc) -- nm - colin Apr 14, 07:29 4
  - yes, it is effective on both carpet and non. My guy really sucks up the dust and hair, it's impressively disgusting. - rollo Apr 14, 07:32 3
    - can you disable all the cloud connections (i realize i can just blacklist it on my router, but wondering if they have explicit privacy settings)? -- nm - colin Apr 14, 07:45 2
      - If you want to deep dive on this stuff, the homeassistant community generally prefers local non-cloud stuff. They pointed to this -- (link) - oblique Apr 14, 07:47 1
        
        I saw this yesterday, have you installed it? I'd be afraid to brick the vacuum. -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 07:53
We had an early model Roomba. It was laughably bad. My wife wouldn't believe me that it was vrappy. So... - prayformojo Apr 14, 07:07 2
- my understanding of the early roomba was that it was meant to pass over areas multiple times and slowly gather up what was there - colin Apr 14, 07:28
- We had an early roomba also. It sucked at sucking -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 07:09
Ruby the Roomba is about 6 years old. She’s one of the random path models, and is fine. I’d get a mapper if I did it again. -- nm - mafic Apr 14, 06:59 1
- My wife named ours Squeaky -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 07:02
We also have a Wyze one. It has been sitting on the charger for 6 months. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 06:58 3
- You should maybe tell it go clean. - sycor Apr 14, 07:03 2
  - No. We moved, still have boxes and cat things on the floor, and need to have it map out the area. - JaxSean Apr 14, 07:12 1
    - Fair points. I'm in the same boat right now so I get it. So. Many. Boxes. -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 07:17
I do but it doesn't have the suction to pick up the robots that accumulate in the corner. -- nm - Max Apr 14, 06:54
I have a 4-year old Roomba named Vincent. It's like an 800 series I think, below the ones where they empty the dustbin for you - works great -- nm - rollo Apr 14, 06:53
We have a Wyze. I like it alot and it does a pretty good job in "high suction" mode on our very tight carpet which is difficult to vacuum even for -- (edited) - oblique Apr 14, 06:53 7
- I have a Wyze too. It’s great on hardware and rugs. -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 14, 07:28
- how often do you have to empty it? Obviously without pets we would do it less, but just curious. - sycor Apr 14, 06:58 5
  - I probably do it once a week and it seems to not be a problem -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 07:01 4
    - nmb oblique - sycor Apr 14, 07:19 3
      - :) You and me both. I have a handful of Lutron "dumb" motion switch in my supply of gear to eventually install around the house. I think our - oblique Apr 14, 07:20 2
        
        haha glad it's not just me. :) - sycor Apr 14, 07:38 1
        
        Heh. Our pantry is smart. - oblique Apr 14, 07:40

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