*I tried several products for my HW and this is the best **MyBest.Tools** Mops and vacuum cleans at the same time. Keeps dirty water separate and overall very pleased with this product.*
I was worried about purchasing this because we have a lot of rugs on our hardwood floors, but decided to give it a try🌼 I'm so glad I did. This little guy doesn't have any problem with any of our rugs (but our dyson does). It doesn't have the power of the dyson, of course, but it really seems to do the job just fine. The best part about having "him" around is that lots of areas that haven't been vacuumed in years are getting done now. He goes under beds, couches, dressers... just about everywhere. I just wish we would have gotten this sooner.
Looks a lot like the first gen Xiaomi robot vacuum, but with a few additions. Xiaomi moved the laser rotor to the centre for gen 2. Good review. Not sure it's enough to tempt me off getting the gen 2 Xiaomi though. Comparison video would be nice 👍
Love this little vacuum. I have 2 dogs and letting it go every night is the best for me. There is a flap inside the bin, take that out and it will pack more hair in there. Also it can be a little frustrating at the beggining while it maps but if your new to robot vacuums you have to learn to not micromanage it, just let it work itself out and after about a week it will have a steady scheme down
Does this work in Smartthings or is it not needed for example setting it to run while we are at work with smart things... can it do that simply by programming the time you want it to run?
I just bought the 900 and it is fantastic compared to my roomba 560. So much genteler on bumps, and once it uses the map, it doesn't bump anymore. I noticed when I refreshed the map page, when the vac is asleep, there are zzzzz's pulsing from the bot's location! Sweet! Too bad the latest app doesn't have the boundary LINE drawing, just the rectangle. Wish they would bring that back. Would be nice to see a charge percentage rather than just the battery symbol.
Pretty cool. I've actually been thinking of getting smart vac. If they could figure out a way to automatically empty the bin, I would pull the trigger today. First world problems.
They actually have those now but they are a bit pricy at $1,000 store.irobot.com/default/roomba-vacuuming-robot-vacuum-irobot-roomba-i7-plus/i755020.html seems pretty awesome though
Thanks for the video, i just bought it and i wanted to ask you, while it is mapping the house for the first time can I draw boundaries for it not to pass? (Under the bed there are some wires I would like it to avoid). Thanks
My 901 won’t map the whole house...Is there a trick to make it finish the entire house? Once it has that, I have a feeling it would work better. I’ve had mine a week and it has yet to map or finish cleaning. I called tech-support number in the Philippines and they are pretty useless. They suggested some basic troubleshooting but I have a feeling the issue is my floor is over 2000 ft.². Am I able to compartmentalize and haven’t learned that way? The issue becomes the vacuum off and die completely before finding the charging dock while mapping. If I try to pick it up or put it close to the dock to assist it it loses the map! How annoying.
If you have it only map a portion of the house, like close off a door so it can only access certain rooms it will finish mapping. Then when it goes into those rooms it hasn't gone into yet it will map them.
Thanks for the advice. At this point it’s hard for me to recommend this or not. Being completely honest with you I’ve had it for over a week and a half and still not been able to map my entire one floor house. I am trying to use the trick above To allow it to finish a map of my house. The whole point of buying this unit was to be able to map my house and tell her not to go in certain areas with virtual boundaries. The issue is even if I map as suggested above (feeding it small portions of my house at a time), Anytime the unit gets tangled or stop or asked to be picked up and moved a little bit by hand (and “can’t locate itself after) automatically deletes anything It just learned. When it resets the map I lose all those virtual boundaries I set up. I got those up in areas the vacuum seems to get stuck so when they disappear it’s impossible to let me set the vacuum up and let it just run because I know it will get stuck somewhere. I am very close to finishing my house now and will update after a week or so of trying to let it do it’s thing. I’m a little frustrated because we had a black carpet in our hallway and apparently it won’t go over black carpet which is ridiculous. I get that it’s trying to send a drop off but technology should be better so a darker carpet doesn’t inhibit doing its job. We removed the carpet and now it seems to work fine in that area. I’ve read however that this model has a habit of forgetting the map even when it isn’t manually adjusted. If that’s true it’s going straight back! It’s been a week and a half and I haven’t mapped it once yet if I have to do this all the time I continuously reset boundaries. Then my answer is absolutely not it’s a piece of crap and not worth anything. Only time will tell if that’s the case. I am being patient because it seems to be a well made machine otherwise but if the app and the mapping aren’t solid it’s useless for anything I wanted it for. I might as well go back to my bump-and-turn Robo vacuum. It didn’t map (had to use annoying strips for boundaries) and I never knew if I truly got everywhere in my house, but at least if it under the beds and couches, something that this one can’t do due to its sensor. My old vacuum also never got stuck on things or hung up as badly as this one seems too. I had to get stuck on carpet fringe and need to be manually adjusted. Of course, once I moved it and put it back down, it completely forgot it’s map!.
Calypso's Hoard thank you so much for responding. I've been slowly buying smart home products for awhile now that I've built up a nice little ecosystem of smart home devices. I've seen smart vacuums for awhile now but thought they were just a gimmick. I recently bought a Deebot N79 used for 50$. It was all I was willing to spend because I really thought I'd be reselling it after I used it..Too my surprise I was really impressed with it.It really has had no issues. But I was so throughly impressed with it I wanted to spend more to get one with more features. "Mine Cleans like your Roomba basically." So my obvious choice was to move up the deebot ecosystem. This one is older so the price is alot easier to pull trigger on but the reviews have scared me off.I thank you for letting me know those issues havnt been addressed. Either I'll bite the bullet and get a Roborock S4.Or find a good deal on Roborock S5.Or even the Deebot 930. Reviews on 930 are alot better then 910.Once again ty for your answer..I'll definitely stay clear of this one
They have changed their app, I just got it and it now maps instantly. I was even able to start making no clean areas. Sadly the new app removed the walls just leaving the box.
Unfortunate that the dustbin is so much smaller than the n79s (which i currently have). It's the only thing that's kept me from getting the 901 since there isn't any other option in the price range with similar features like mapping.
Music Production Videos , I have the 907. I can turn the WiFi off, (per the user manual), take to a different floor to clean. When it’s done I put it back on the charge station. Switching off and back on turns the WiFi back on and I don’t lose my map.
honestly, i don't know why ppl buy these types of vacuums. they cannot lift heavy dirt or hold the same amount as a regular vac. they take forever to map a room and if a chair is moved afterward, and it starts vacuuming guess what...it has to map the entire room again. the only way to get these things to work right is to use them in rooms that don't have chairs which get moved on a regular basis, because if you use one in a dining room, you will need to move all chairs out of the room to map it, and then again prior to future vacuuming... so what is the point-- in a fraction of the amount of time you just spent, you could have vacuumed the room with a regular vac and it would be far cleaner. mine is on its way to Goodwill, what a rip
I just picked one and it failed to complete the first run mapping before the battery came low. I moved it and now the map is messed. Mine is a 80% carpet house of about 1200 sq ft. So, will it be faster without brush attachment to do the initial run and thus use less power? I wish it had a map only mode to save the charge for one full map starting the suction.
Yes a mapping mode seems to be big oversight by Ecovacs. Even if it had to go over every square inch I am convinced without brushes and suction the battery would be able to map 2000+ square feet easily.
Hi Rajeev, Ecovacs have a suggestion page on their website i suggest submitting this to them as a feature. I had a problem with the virtual boundaries on mine, i just sent a suggestion in now. Hopefully they respond.
This looks better then Xiaomi roborock S50 which doesn't work with Alexa or Google Home unless you are some sort of clever programmist guy. Mapping also looks much better with clear straight walls. You can name room etc. Far better then Xiaomi.
@Matt you're right that the 901 can allow you to select a room to clean and the roborock S5 can't. I'm reviewing the S5 right now and it does work with Alexa and Google Assistant. The only thing that doesn't work is being able to dock with Alexa.
If you mean one that has a large dust capacity, and after each clean it goes back to it's dock and all the dust is put into an even larger bin in the dock, so you only have to empty it every few weeks. It's the deebot r98 google tt.
*I run the m6 daily, and my floors look awesome🌼 **allabout.wiki/ECOVACS-N79S** I wet mop 2 days and dry sweep the rest of the days. When I first got it, I used the included disposable pads. I didn't like them--the dry pad has no depth so if it picks up a chunk of something, like dry cat food, then it pushes it around or drags it around the floor. The wet pad wasn't very absorbent so left streaks and wheel marks.*
