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Early days yet
08/12/2022 08:26
I received the j7+ today The packaging is surprisingly compact which its thanks to the j7+ having a shorter but wider self emptying bin. This is better than some others that have tall narrow bins as it gives an option to locate it under a table and the extra wideness doesn't take up any extra room as it is room the robot it self would occupy.
In the box is the robot, clean station (which has one dust bag installed and a spare in a handy storage area), a QuickStart guide, manual, extra filter, spare side brush and power cord. The vacuum i received came with and EU plug but no UK plug? I've managed to borrow a kettle lead and have raised a query with iRobot.
Setup was a breeze. it was a case of plug it in, place the robot on the charger and follow the simple instructions on the app. the only difficulty i experienced was it didn't seem to like either my Wi-Fi name or password. I was able to add it to my guest network(exact same settings) with a simpler name and a password that didn't contain any special characters.
I've not had much chance to play around with it yet as it needs a good charge, though i did send it out on a few short runs. so far ive had little success with the object avoidance as it drove straight into cables and a sock i purposely place on the floor.
The object avoidance is 'OK' at first i didn't think it was working as it ran into a few things. but i did eventually start getting photos in the app asking me about objects and its seems to work most of the time. though has difficulty spotting with smaller objects still, for example the partners socks when balled up or a stray cotton bud(this ended up getting dragged around). Pick up Is pretty good though not perfect.
I have started to notice that the Robot seems to be restoring the pile of the carpet. Also ive started to get pictures in the app where the robot has questioned if something is an obstruction
When it returned to the base the roar of the clean station emptied the robot and inside the bag was a considerable amount of pet hair/dust considering the floor was only vacuumed 2 days ago with a top brand upright
Scheduling and creating custom jobs looks easy but not played around much with that yet. Would love to see the ability to manually drive the robot through the app
SparksAreFlying
andover , Spojené království
Age: 36
Gender: Female