REVOLUTION IN ROBOTIC CLEANING! Smartmi VortexWave A1 review | RoboVacCollector 

Yes, true. I really want w400 or w450, so I can test both, if there are big differences in cleaning abilities.

@@robovaccollector you already tried w450 ...

@@robovaccollector But you already had and tested the w455 in your other chanel (3Dpassion). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cvMywEks0E0.html

@@theattorney6072 I don't even have one. :D I only have iRobot's Scoobas.

@@robovaccollector On this video, you had one : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cvMywEks0E0.html Or are you insinuating it is not you lol

Great, hope you'll like it.

Depends on how big place it cleans. I don't have to refill it after 35m2 tho. iLife is made for smaller spaces, and has no dock. And also this is much smarter. I want to get one of theese shinebots and do some comparasion. :)

I went with Bissell Crosswave Max. Worked great, cleaned marble really well. But it is dead now after 2 years. Need something else.

I know Scoobas too well. I have nearly all models, including 450, 230, 390, 385, and 5800. Those are meant to be floor washing robots only, and they can't be converted into dry robot vacuum only. Except for 230, they can pre-sweep the floor before washing it, and they wash it with really nicely designed brushes, which definitely can get more stuff out, than Smartmi itself. Unfortunately as you mentioned, iRobot discontinued all of them and now they sell Braava only, which yes, moves dirt around. They also have no docking station, and no smart navigaton. I love Scoobas, I like them more than Smartmi, but Smartmi is the closest thing to them you will be able to get theese days now. So in today's robot vacuum world it is revolution. Thank you for your time :) Edit: I just remembered, iLife recreated Scooba some time ago. They named it iLife Shinebot W400 / W450 / W455, definitely check it out. I have no experience with it so far, but I do have good experience with other iLife robots. It's not as smart as smartmi, but it definitely deserves some attention.

Leave it to map your entire home, go to the app on the main map screen, then go to the settings, the three dots in the corner, and here choose the Edit area, and here you can edit rooms in your map.

Actually, on max mode it drops quite a lot of water on the floor. For some more dried stains you mostly need more passes to clean it, so that's where local cleaning mode comes handy. This thing is mainly made to maintain your home, so dried stains will not be that common if using the robot regularly. From my experience, it can get them too after few passes.

Yes, this is the chineese version, it's preproduction model, and they are chineese only probably. I had problems with connecting it to the app, then I had to change the region to [china something] and everything worked fine. I didn't changed the voice, it was like this in english straight out of packaging. I looked in the app now, and unfortunately, maybe because this is chineese version I can't see language settings, only voice volume/on off settings.

@@robovaccollector I'm also using chinese ver, app set to China Mainland and enlish interface, but voice is chinese by default and app haven't lang change button

If the wheels are dry, it kinda can climb 1,5cm doorstep. I'm afraid, it can't really do 2cm.

It has dry mode. Everything is mentioned and showed in video.

@@robovaccollector So can you set dry and mop mode using a the app when setting a schedule? I currently have an ECOVACS that I have to attach and remove a plate and if the mapping plat pre is on, it avoids my low pile rugs and carpets. I just want one device that does both without me having to add or remove hardware to clean my hardwood/tile and rugs. If the mode depends on what component is inserted, this would not be for me.

@@JNGold unfortunately, you have to change the what I call "separator", dry one contains hepa filter, wet one has float valve and sponge filter. I think it would go over carpets in wet mode too, but it would wet the carpets, so well for you it may still be useless.

@@robovaccollector That’s a shame. I hope more options come on the market that can deal with the multiple floor issue so to be totally automatic. Off to RoboRock. :)

It should. :)

@@robovaccollector and is it possible to voice control to clean specific room of the house? Like hey google clean the kitchen

Well, I don't really know. I didn't really tried that yet. I have alexa, but if I'm right, it should be compatible with both. I'm not really sure about home kit tho..

@@robovaccollector Thanks for your reply. I am very curious about that feature because I had no luck connecting few of my xiaomi devices to google home 😂. And voice control to clean specific room is a feature of high class ones from Roborock. Hope you would be able to try it some day :D

I think Scooba will do a little better job on PVC floors, because of the brush, but well, if you need to clean your entire house, then put Scooba on display... Anyway I'm still using 230, so whatever. :)

@@robovaccollector Whats wrong with the brush of the A1 ?

@@theattorney6072 it's good, it cleans my parquets just great, but Scooba's brush has harder bristles, so they scrub PVC better. But Smartmi does a great job on PVC too. I'm using it everywhere.

@@robovaccollector Lets Hope they will release a brush with harder brisltles, just like what ilife did.

@@theattorney6072 yes, that would improve efficiency on pvc floors.

I mainly wanted to show people all the features and pickup. That's all you need to know when buying this. I will do more tests soon!

@@robovaccollector ok, but Many other information is important to know for a moping robot, how does is navigate/avoid obstacles, Can it mop a dirty floor without first vacuuming ? How much surface Can it mop without adding water, emptying waste water ? Also WE don't buy a mop robot to absorb milk on the floor, people need to know how it cleans Stains and maintain a clean floor.

@@theattorney6072 will do a video about more tests later. So far what can I say, it can clean nearly anything. I bet stains from coffe, juice or other will be no problem. And please, write all questions in one comment, or I will delete some of your comments, there is too many of them.

I wait for an upgrade and hope it will run better.

Maybe try reboot, or remap. Mine works nicely. Cleaning pattern is not as good as Roborock's, but it does the job just ok.

I will try to text smartmi about this. I'm sorry to hear that and I hope they will solve the problem. From what I know so far, A1 is already avaiable in few countries, I'm just not exactly sure where.