I have found that even if you position the dividers perfectly, the i7 will still pass through them a little bit during its edge-cleaning phase. It seems to just be how the algorithm works.
Yeah, and honestly, that's fine. Like...it's annoying to watch and gets on my nerves, but the job of a robot vacuum is to clean the stuff you want it to clean. And it does. It's not as efficient as a LIDAR vac, but the practical differences are essentially non-existent. The only things I really don't like about the i7 are how bad it is at mapping (and how long that takes are a consequence) and how hard it slams into furniture because of its crappy infrared front sensor.
Wow, this is great! My house has lots of 45 degree meeting 90 degree transitions, just like your kitchen. This will really help make the map accurate. Another small issue I've had is that, while the map supports rotating room divider lines, it doesn't allow rotating threshold areas -- and most of my thresholds are on 45 degrees. But from another of your vids, I now understand that the threshold areas simply disable the tilt sensor, so I can use larger rectangular blocks to incorporate those thresholds. Thanks!
It should recharge and resume. Make sure you have that enabled in the app. I'm pretty sure it's enabled by default. Also, you can have it map instead of clean, which will make the battery last a lot longer.
@@MrRoombato I have the i3 and the iRobot app. It shows a picture of the vacuum and says ready to go but I can not find a map anywhere except where it shows cleaning history which is useless as I can’t map from it. - how do I create a map and have it saved and name the rooms 🤦♂️ just got it a few day ago and I’ve been all over in this app trying to do just that
Makes no sense that Roomba engineers did not use polygons - modern OO-code makes this elementary. It’s easier to conclude they intentionally omitted this routine, basic feature.
