Roomba or equivalent?

BrownFinger wrote: »

Got my eufy 30c yesterday.
All set up for its first day alone today.
There was a large yellow sticker on it pointing to the power button that needed to be removed and it was absolutely welded to the unit.
took 20minutes to get it off and it almost looks like the glue melted to the unit .

I did some testing last night and it doesn't seem to set off the hall Alarm PIR but time will tell.

edit -just got an alert from the house alarm, it set off the hall PIR.

I don't have the s5 max but had something like this happen on the original xiaomi vacuum, it was because of dirt on the sensor, once i cleaned it it worked fine again.

How big is tank of water for Brava m6 , couldn’t find specs?

For the I7, can you lift it over a large threshold and let it do its work? The dirtiest room in the house, a converted conservatory dedicated to the kids, has a half inch or so metal divider for the doors and there's nothing robot hoovery getting over it so wondering how that can be managed with it unable to get to and fro its docking station.

I bought an S5max from AliExpress a few weeks ago as it was by far the cheapest price at the time. I used roborock Online Store. Rating of 4.9, positive feedback of 99.3% (based on 982 respondants). Can't fault the service or the product. Shipped from France and was with delivered within 10 days.

385euro there abouts?

Just beware with AliExpress, they aren't the best to deal with if you have to return something. You are relying on the store to be good. Bought a phone a few years ago and it stopped working within weeks and the store wouldn't replace it and AliExpress were no help.

I got my roborock from there a few years ago though and no issues. You can also buy parts fairly cheaply.

It needs to be emptied every few days. Obviously depends on how much dust you have in your house. And it requires taking a couple of the modules off every couple of weeks to clean them too. For me it is the wife's hair that gets tangled in it. Not while it's attached to her head though

I hve been looking some more, I think realistically I am better focusing on the robot with best hard floor performance- vacuum and mopping, as the carpet is upstairs so will end up using the traditional vac rather than disturbing/lift robot. Any thoughts on the best for hard floors including a mop function? Would want the mapping function rather than bump and go random direction approach.

Pretty much just drags a slightly damp cloth across the floor. It probably helps clean the floor but it's not a replacement for actual mopping. I have s6 Max. Maybe the newer ones are better

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005004612779162.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.63c9245bAqpjAy&algo_pvid=3f5b15f9-0f5b-4014-9cf0-087ea4ec99e2&algo_exp_id=3f5b15f9-0f5b-4014-9cf0-087ea4ec99e2-0&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22sku_id%22%3A%2212000029830279006%22%7D&pdp_npi=2%40dis%21EUR%2177.77%2123.33%21%21%21%21%21%4021031a5516613683652621511e93af%2112000029830279006%21sea&curPageLogUid=f87pE4wEOPfs

Just a quick search , you should find one which delivered from EU.( Germany ,Poland etc)

It is not like you have a choice after the Brexit.Good few sellers shipping from EU there, so no custom duty , VAT etc involved.

but then when you try to order:

Amazon are very finicky with batteries the last few years. They used to ship more, I have items in my order history from 2018/17 that they wont ship now (camera batteries that seem to lithium based). They still seem to ship some NiMH batteries.

Apparently if you put the battery in the box with a new camera though it suddenly becomes "safe" to ship. 🙄