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HomeKit robovac?

  • 14-11-2021 11:30AM
    #1
    OU812
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    Anyone know of any of the robovacs that support HomeKit?

    We don’t have any Google or Alexa devices anymore having switched to HomePods this year.



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  • #2
    Toots
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    https://robotpoweredhome.com/irobot-roomba-homekit/

    This article seems to suggest that there aren't any robo-vacs that work directly with Homekit but there may be workarounds.

    I've got a Roomba i7+ and most of the time I use the app to start instead of Alexa. You set routines on the app so I very rarely have to manually start the robot, it just does its thing throughout the day.



  • #3
    OU812
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,094 ✭✭✭OU812


    Is it possible to set an automation? That would most likely work better than HomeKit

    Was thinking of setting it up to run overnight.

    Are they loud?



  • #4
    Toots
    Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,988 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    Yes you can set routines once it has learned the map of your house. Basically you can just let it go round and clean, and it will learn your floor plan that way or you can get it to do a dedicated mapping circuit where it'll basically trundle around all over the place learning your layout.

    Once it has learned enough, it produces a smart map on the app, and then you can label all the rooms. Once you've got rooms labelled, you can set a schedule for it, so for example every weekday at 9am I have mine set to do the hall and living room, so when I come home from the school run those rooms are done. Then when I'm doing the school pickup at 2.45 I have it set to do the bedrooms, and then it does the kitchen at about 7.30 so it collects the crumbs from the day. You can set no-go areas too, I don't allow it in the utility because the dog's bed and bowls are there I don't want it knocking over the water bowl.

    So basically the house gets hoovered and I don't have to touch it. The only things I vacuum manually would be the utility room and then furniture.

    It's nowhere near as loud as a regular vacuum or a dyson, but you would notice it. Like if you were trying to do a conference call for work you wouldn't want it cleaning the room at the same time. In terms of noise, it probably wouldn't be too noisy to run at night providing it wasn't in the bedrooms, but my main concern about running it overnight would be you'd have to leave all the doors open so it could do its rounds, which would be a fire hazard.



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