Can you NON Smart Robot Vacuum clean a large floor plan,? Is it even possible? Please Check this video for giveaway details = • I am GIVING AWAY 3 Rob...
I have this roomba and my house is 2200 sq feet single story. It runs every day and does a decent job keeping the dust knocked down through the week. We still just vacuum and mop every other week or so but this roomba keeps the house from getting too bad. I guess it just depends on what you expect from the machine. I don’t necessarily care or expect it to clean every square inch of the house so it works for me
if you have floor supply's for the hvac system, you shouldn't put obstructions on them. they were designed to flow a perfect amount of air for the size of the home system when installed.
I have old leaflet from Roomba 500 series, and iRobot says there, that the Roomba 581 (which was the highest model in this leaflet) is recommended for cleaning 4 and more rooms, with Virtuall wall Lighthouse, which I think is possible to make iAdapt 1.0 robot clean more rooms more efficient. Roombas with 1.0 without Virtuall wall Lighthouse probably not. For example about 520 it says recommended for 3 rooms, and for 555 and 563 PET it says recommended for 4 rooms. Theese are old Roombas 500 series from 2007 I think, and they were using old yellow ni-mh batteries. X-Lifes were new at some 600, 700 and 800 series I was testing Lighthouses a bit, and it really works, and Roomba does waay better.
Yes problem with Lighthouse however is that Irobot are really crappy about wich models that support lighthouses and wich don't. Some model series do it and some dont. My 880 for example don't support it.
Considering the very high risk of piracy (even laser only technology allows to catch voice), unless I have strong technical guarantees given by manufacturers (so far, none has given any today) there is no way I am letting a smart potential spy robot in my 1000 sq ft floor appartement. So for high cleaning efficiency with a blind robot, the strategy is just to send the robot often on mission as this maximizes the probability for it to go almost everywhere. Twice a day is not a big deal, and it does a wonderful job by my standards, considering we live with 2 big dogs who have free and full access to every room as it's their home too.😉
I would just say that this is similar to “non smart” automowers. You need to run it every other day - maybe four/five days per week. Mine does a good job for about 1000 sq ft - but again, I run it every other day or so.
I thought it was just me. I kept waiting for it to get this one little spot and it kept missing it. Im at 3500sq ft and I guess it is not going to work unless I get a second one. Uuuggghhhh!!!
Absolutely. It's kind of hard to ding it for something it clearly isn't designed to do. Early generation Roombas relied exclusively on virtual wall/lighthouse technology prior to the advent of V-SLAM and LIDAR currently used in "smarter" robots. These were almost a requirement as early generation Roombas would tumble down the stairs without one. The addition of cliff detection has made the need for virtual walls almost non existent for smaller homes. But the adaptive algorithm is still limited by runtime, so if you buy one of these more wallet friendly robots for a larger home, you should also expect to get one or more of the Virtual Wall devices so you can section off the home into smaller manageable segments.
