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• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Worth the investment

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  • Owned for 1 month

  I run my robot a LOT. My floors have never felt so clean! Really durable and gets the job done quickly. I have dogs so I couldn’t keep up with doing the floors all the time but running the robot is so easy and effortless. Creating the map and assigning jobs are user friendly as well. You can even adjust the type of clean with multiple options. 10/10 would purchase again!! Saved my sanity as I love a clean house! If you are debating it, I couldn’t recommend it enough.

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  Posted 4 months ago by Maddie

• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Amazing suction

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  Works amazing I love how you can choose rather u want to mop, vacuum or both the mapping is super fast. easy to set up and use

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  Posted 4 months ago by SavanaL

• Rated 4 out of 5 stars

  Mesmerizing, methodical, but can also be vexing.

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  iRobot - Roomba Plus 405 (G185) Combo Robot Vacuum & Mop + AutoWash Dock. It’s been a few years since I tried to use a robot to vacuum or mop our 2800 sqft home. The area to be covered, the mix of hardwood, rugs, and tile actually required a robot team as well as a complex homeowner strategy. This new all-in-one package from Roomba reduces the thinking necessary to create a cleaning regime and allows for one-place management. But, it does require planning and it comes with its own hurdles to cross, especially during setup. Once set up, I was more impressed by many of the elements of the feature set, if not all of them.
 
SETUP: Day 1, the Troubles. Roomba needs some work here. 24 hours later, I could laugh about it, but day one? Issues included a Wi-Fi connection that took multiple tries, an update that failed repeatedly for hours, and a dock with a cord that was so loose I got blinking lights until I taped it down to make it more secure. (iRobot is sending a replacement) There was even a sticker hidden in the robot garage floor I didn’t discover for a few hours. Any one of these issues could have adversely contributed to the others. The app, however, is not informative about some of the errors in the setup, and even when it makes you aware of a problem, it has no way to solve it. 
 
The app is designed to walk the end user through a logical setup path, but when that path is blocked, it becomes unresponsive, sometimes hanging with a blank screen. Other times, it appears everything is OK, but the app requires repeated actions (Create a Map, Begin routines, etc.) when it is actually stuck in an error loop. As you discover later, after the faults are corrected, the app was hiding those next steps you don’t know were available. Reboots requested from the app or even Mapping requests never occur, and do not succeed at the robot though they appear to have been accepted in the app. Day 2, the Successes. Eventually, this all sorts out. Overnight my connection became rock solid, mapping requested using the robot buttons succeeded, and the app now revealed all of its previously hidden features. It’s tempting to say all is forgiven now that it all works, but these setup wrinkles need to be ironed out. I was unable to create the maps I show in my app screenshot. Mapping took minutes, improving greatly on previous experiences I’ve had with earlier robot vacs. The LIDAR technology does not need to touch surfaces, and instead captures obstacles, doorways, or wide-open spaces by scanning areas, not traversing them. The completed maps are very accurate. You can edit maps and assign areas that are out of bounds or need a special cleaning effort. A cleaning history is provided. 

PERFORMANCE: Once you are past the vexing startup issues, using the app becomes enjoyable. There are numerous ways to schedule the Roomba Plus 405’s features by creating routines. The routines are assigned to cards you subsequently select. So, for example, you can assign cleaning to selected groups of rooms, and then decide which features will be employed (mopping or vacuuming) singularly or together during the cleanup session. You can follow the mapping or cleaning in real time if you are really bored. Watching the Roomba in action reveals a well-designed navigation system, maneuvering that solves many home layout issues, and cleaning tools that come close to replicating my own vacuuming or mopping strategies. It improves on some. I certainly don’t methodically circle each bed or chair leg, but the Roomba does. It looks like a curious puppy chasing a toy. The Roomba never forgets to lift the rotating mops when it climbs my area rugs. My rugs stay dry. Vacuuming increases in power on rugs. The spinning sweeper is effective at capturing loose debris on my hardwoods. The moistened mops hold on to dust and leave no visible streaks on the floor. A map of the cleaning routine is created, showing the tight pattern of travel on wide areas, the somewhat more complicated cleaning where there are obstacles. The Roomba returns to the dock at more regular intervals than I expected, but those returns result in a frequent mop pad washing routine. I have not figured out if the the Roomba dock delivers water to the robot during those cleaning forays, other than these pad washing activities. A significant amount of water is involved in a full cleaning session. ISSUES OF NOTE: I covered the setup problems earlier. I found the overall Roomba Plus 405 robotic vacuuming performance to be encouraging and useful. I also think expectations need to match the inherent limitations with robot vacs, which do not reduce my enthusiasm for these tireless cleaning assistants. We have newer area rugs which are expected to shed lots of fibers for a few weeks of vacuuming. These excessive sheddings quickly filled collection bins and interfered with early robot cleaning sessions. It was also a reminder that robot cleaning bins are not comparable in size to manual vacs of any type. The Roomba Plus 405 is a very quiet robot vac, likely to occasionally scare you when it sneaks up on you. However, that docking regime for cleaning the pads, filling or draining the robot, is anything but quiet. We could easily hear it from a few rooms away. Speaking of cleaning the pads, you will want to be scrupulous about emptying the water collection bin with its dirty water. You will not want that sitting around for a few days. A spray of a disinfectant each time you clean it out is a reasonably precautionary measure. SUMMARY: iRobot’s Roomba Plus 405 represents a leap forward from the earliest robot vacuums. The design reflects realistic expectations from end users that the entire process requires less time and effort. iRobot has made the mapping very fast and accurate with much improved technology. It gets better at a higher price point, but this navigation technology truly works well. Editing maps is just as quick and more intuitive. Creating and selecting customized routines is so easy that you will actually do it. Really. Combining a vacuum feature with a companion mopping feature and having it work without a hitch was the big surprise. None of this is to say you don’t still have to be attentive to water changes or vacuum bin emptying. Your robot may clean up after you and your home, and it does a very good job at that. You still have to clean up after your robot. I can recommend the Roomba Plus 405 with the caveat that setup and initial glitches may be frustrating.

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  Posted 5 months ago by TECHBEENGOOD