Roomba Combo j5

I have had several Eufys over the years and I always swore by them as a great little robovac. The Eufy is half the price of the Roomba and I always thought a robovac is a robovac, right? Wrong! The Eufy does a good enough job, wandering aimlessly around sucking up dirt and getting stuck… a lot. I finally got tired of going to help it and realized I may as well vacuum myself if I have to keep going to help it out all the time. The Roomba was on sale and I was so ignorant of what it actually brings to the table that I bought it because it was thicker so I figured it wouldn’t get stuck under as many things. Little did I know, this thing is on a whole different level. There is plenty of information out there on how to do mapping runs and design your layout etc. and I admit I didn’t do any of that and still don’t understand it well enough to explain it to anyone else, so I won’t try here. In “Eufy mode” I used it the same way and just set it going in a room. Only after it finished did I realize it was learning my floor plan and after a few times it had enough information for me to name rooms, set no-go areas and set up favorites etc. The first time I looked at the app and realized it was sending me pictures (pictures!) of obstacles and asking me whether this was a permanent or temporary obstacle and what area was carpet vs non-carpet, did the penny drop as to why the Roomba was more expensive. Through trial and error I now have a fully mapped house with named areas, no-go zones (such as under the treadmill) and known obstacles. I LOVE this thing! Where I have had issues (not sure they are serious enough to be called “cons”) I explain below. It never gets stuck under anything. In a month of running it almost every day, it has only twice sent me a message saying it was “near a cliff” which I eventually figured out was because it was on the edge of a rug with a light border and a darker inside pattern. It relies a lot on light to make its judgements so if the light isn’t terribly good in the room a thing like the floor going from a light to a dark color seems to confuse it. On brighter days it has made that transition without issue. For the same reason I figured out why a couple of times it returned to base without finishing the job (you know this because it tells you - the message was "path blocked"). I came to realize it doesn’t like to run in the dark. On both occasions I had left it running overnight and when Alexa turned off the lights and it couldn’t “see” it gave up and went home. When I first got it, it would stop and tell me the bin was full when it wasn’t and I thought this was going to be the most serious downside, because it had not been running very long when it would think the bin was full, even though the bin is quite large (larger than the Eufy). I have two long haired dogs and I found that the dog hair was obscuring the sensor for the bin, making it think it was full when it wasn’t even close. Setting it in the app to run with a full bin fixed that and unless you have either a really large area or a lot of pet hair in one run, I don’t believe it will end up getting clogged running with a truly full bin. Lastly, yes, it is noisy… but that is a small price to pay for such a time saving way to keep my floors in such good shape. I have come to like the sound of it, knowing it is running and makiung my life easier :) I haven’t tried it yet with Alexa, so I don’t know about that. The battery life could perhaps be a bit better, but if it hasn’t finished (I have one large area where this happens) it just goes back to base and recharges before resuming and completing the job. Again, you know this is happening because it tells you. Definitely a good buy and (sorry Eufy!) I can’t believe I waited this long to get one.

Robot vacuums are truly the future of the vacuuming industry as soon as they came out. We always wanted one for our home, but when they came out they were costly. Today, robot vacuums are now affordable for everyone to try. The robot vacuum came very nicely packaged and came with a few parts. What you need to get this up and running is the vacuum itself, the charging stand, and the app on your phone. Setting up the vacuum was very easy and I appreciated how quick it was. Initially, we were concerned because the vacuum was going around the room, but not picking up anything. However, we realized that it was calibrating and scanning the room. I wish the manufacturer made that more obvious that in the first few initial runs, the vacuum will scan the room as opposed to vacuuming it. However, once the vacuum finished scanning the room, it did an incredible job. We had it mapped out to clean the kitchen and the living room, and it worked amazingly. There were even times when it would miss a few spots, and we got concerned and we thought okay that's still a good job. However, the vacuum proved us wrong by going over the same spot that we were looking at, and it did a great job picking it up. Overall robot vacuums are a tremendous quality of life upgrade for anyone. It's like having your cleaner. The best part is that with the app, you can make it a hand-free experience by setting the time that you want it to vacuum. For example, you could tell it to vacuum before you get up in the morning or before you go to bed, and every single time once it's finished vacuuming it will go back to its charging station waiting for the next time that it has to clean. Overall, I highly recommend this vacuum in particular for everyone as this company was one of the first to truly pioneer this technology. I am very satisfied with this purchase, and I would recommend everyone to check this out.

Ten mucho cuidado al comprar el producto con este vendedor, no trae sellos de importación, la marca no se hace responsable por considerar que el producto está en el país de forma ilegal. El producto es muy buen sin embargo después de unos meses falló y al querer aplicar la garantía con iRobot, no pidieron los ellos de la normativa mexicana, mismos que la caja no trae. La marca no te dará garantía en México, se compró garantía por Amazon y no aplica hasta que termine la garantía de fabrican, es un problema en este momento resolver el que todos se deslindar de responsabilidad, si compras desde México, cómprala por otro medio o cerciórate de que traiga los sellos NOM. (Norma oficial Mexicana)

I moved into a new apartment with carpets 2 weeks before my Roomba arrived. And I have 2 cats, one is longhair. After the first run in my small living room Roomba left so much debris on the carpet that I felt quite frustrated and intended to return it. However when I opened the bin, I was shocked with the amount of dirt there, Roomba was suffocating, no wonder that is was not able to take in more. I would have thought that it was impossible for all this dirt to be on the floors of a seemingly renovated apartment, and that this dirt might have been inside Roomba when I bought it if I hadn’t looked inside of it beforehand and seen it brand new empty. This pound of dirt came indeed from my carpets. I did 3 more full runs in my small living room and each time the bin was full. Each time Roomba left less and less debris. Now that it looks clean, I’d better run it more often. The manufacturer recommends 5x/week, but I think even 2-3x/week would be fine. Apparently the previous tenant here didn’t vacuum the carpets at all. Compared to my previous Roomba that I bought 10 years ago, j7 is much less noisy, sometimes I don’t even hear it. The new cleaning patterns are much more efficient and cover almost 100% of the floor compared to the previous models with chaotic patterns. The only problem for now is that in order to establish a remote connection with it, it absolutely needs a phone with wifi and not data, and my phone won’t connect to my home wifi. Looks like I need a new phone only to have a remote for Roomba. Also looking forward to see how easy it is to clean it beyond the bin. The cat fur and my hair like to wind onto the vacuum parts. Cleaning the previous Roomba was a mess, with screwdrivers, dirty hair and fine dust everywhere in the bathroom. I’ll see how it goes with j7. Update after 1 month of use: I’m overall happy with the purchase. I suspect though that Roomba has a secret dust-generating device hidden inside of it, otherwise I can’t explain how it manages to gather a pound of dirt every 3 days that I run it. My small apartment just shouldn’t be able to generate this much of dirt, even with 2 cats in it. That’s a mystery! Cleaning the lower surface is relatively easy. I’m happy that the brushes are now completely in rubber and not like previous brushes, they gather considerably less hair. I managed to connect Roomba to the app and now enjoying choosing separate areas of the apartment to clean, and then sending pics of my cats happened to be on the way of Roomba, to iRobot database of obstacles.

Great for pet hair and dust

I bought this vacuum after my Neato D7 died and couldn't be revived. For the price, it's kind of disappointing. I have two long haired cats, and it just doesn't clean as well as I hoped. The suction isn't great, so I have it set to go over each area twice. The side brush grabs some debris, but it often flings hard small things, like litter and kibble, away from the vacuum's path, another reason that I prefer to run the vacuum twice. Cat hair also gets caught and tangled in the side brush, which needs to be de-haired basically every run. The bin is also extremely tiny and needs to be emptied every other run. There also doesn't appear to be any way to set precise no-go zones like other vacuums do with magnetic strips; no-go zones can be set with the app, but the map isn't fine-grained or detailed enough to precisely set a small area around my cats' drinking fountain, for instance. On the plus side, the bot does an ok job avoiding obstacles and it's not nearly as prone to sucking up phone cables as my previous vacuum. (I haven't had the misfortune of being able to test the pet waste avoidance yet, though.) The app is also not too bad, and it makes it easy to set up zones for cleaning and a cleaning schedule. (Revised to one star since I'm tired of cleaning the intake to the the dustbin multiple times a week when it things the dustbin is full. Terrible vacuum, don't waste your time.)

Igual para un pequeño departamento que no se ensucie mucho funciona, pero el depósito se llena muy rápido, no trae instructivo así qué hay que ir aprendiendo según te vaya explicando la app, no limpia excelente pero si no hay quien lo haga es suficiente