Roomba or equivalent?

Shaunoc wrote: »

where and how much did you bite for ?

TomTop. It seems to be out of stock now. It was $419 yesterday (Paypal receipt is €365), now it's back up to $539.

Dispatch email came at 1pm yesterday. UPS saying next Thursday for delivery. Seems a little slow for within Europe. Mind you, as it's still showing 'label created' on their system, hasn't actually shipped. /grumble

Roborock S50 - Initial impressions

Device – lighter than I thought.
App – iOS version hasn’t crashed. Android one crashed frequently on first use. Still have to explore the app in full. Info provided seems handy and interesting. Had a few teething issues starting out, as mentioned yesterday.

Cleaning – first full downstairs run. Approx 43 minutes, used about 23% of the battery. Wasn't sure what it was at in the hall at one stage as it didn't do it in full, then went back to room one, before returning to the hall, followed by the kitchen.

Upstairs – first run through. 28 minutes, used ~ 21 of battery. Returned to its starting spot (not the dock) without any fuss. I threw down a few bits of paper from the shredder (not many), it got most. Thought there was some of the carpet that needed a second look, so I decided to give the upstairs another spin. I think due to some errors it got a bit confused, and although it resumed cleaning (and said so, audibly), it didn't return to its original spot and cease. With one of the errors, at first I couldn't find it. Well, there's a prompt in the app and she'll say 'Hi, I'm over here'. :P Anyway, I just stopped it after 53 minutes because it kept looping back between two bedrooms and didn't seem to know what it was doing. Or did, but maybe didn't have an end point in mind. More on the hiccups below.

Errors – wall sensor wasn’t clean (coweb, dust, etc) after the downstairs run, the device wouldn’t proceed. Fine after cleaning this off. Another time it got tangled on a piece of string. Other errors involved it hitting my computer chair and not seeming to know what it could do i.e. turn around and continue. A few little obstacles like that. No errors in the downstairs run. Sounds like, if you set it going, went out for a walk, and it hit something, the job wouldn't be complete if you came home to an error. Don't think you can expect any device to manage errors that are not its fault, or environmental. Absolutely no trouble with saddle boards. I left it running upstairs whilst having dinner and could hear it hitting off stuff now and then.

Dust box - quite full more than once, pleased with that.
Cat - hasn't given her view as she's mostly an outdoor one. She tends to be jittery about noise anyway.
Google Home - haven't tried.
Timer, routine/schedule, etc - same as above.

Nothing particularly negative that I can see, so far. I have read the manual (unlike with other devices :pac:) purely with an eye to maintenance needs and habits.

vjmcdonnell wrote: »

Is the version 2 with mopping worth the extra money?

Can't say, haven't tried it. I didn't install that part as I didn't want to fill the water tank.

I accidentally spilled some uncooked porridge, seeds, raisins and water tonight. It got most of it. Had the machine running already anyway.