Re: OT: Robo Vacs

2020-01-27 Thread Corneliu I. Tusnea
I also have the Xiaomi S2 Robo and I love it. Also have the handheld Dreame from Xiaomi and that works great as well. I don't have carpets only laminate floors. Best part is integration with Google Mini. When I leave home I can say "Ok Google, Start vacuuming". Then "Ok Google, Good Bye" (to turn

Re: OT: Robo Vacs

2020-01-23 Thread Tom Gao
I have xiaomi brand Robo vac. Works very well had it for a few years now. I have 2 cats so very important for collecting fur and dust. Really amazing little thing that I had going off every morning at around 3am until it met cat poo. Now I only manually trigger it when I leave the house once every

Re: OT: Robo Vacs

2020-01-22 Thread Nathan Schultz
I had a Roomba for a number of years. While it's true it won't do as thorough job as a manual vacuum cleaner on a single run, since I could run it every day my floor was just as clean. Works very well on wooden, tiles and vinyl floors - but not so well on thick-pile carpets and rugs. It also can't

Re: OT: Robo Vacs

2020-01-20 Thread Dan Cash
I bought a Mint 4200 a few years back ... very basic, just pushes a pad around, dust and hair accumulate at the front of the pad (static?) and returns to it's spot when finished. 'Navigation beacons' I ran it once a week, or whenever wife was out ...crowded house, I'd pick up chairs and kids stuff

Re: OT: Robo Vacs

2020-01-20 Thread Bill McCarthy
David Rhys Jones Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 2:19:09 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: OT: Robo Vacs Hi, I've had three Roomba's in the last 12 years. They are not good if there is someone with long hair in the place, hair will strip off the brushes in no time. Robby died of a stuc

Re: OT: Robo Vacs

2020-01-20 Thread DotNet Dude
I found it depends on your floors and what your idea of clean is. Forget carpet. Tiles and timber floors they are ok, just ok. Not worth the money imo. You can sweep (those material heads, I forget the name) and do an equivalent if not better job in a few mins on hard floors. On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 a

Re: OT: Robo Vacs

2020-01-20 Thread David Rhys Jones
Hi, I've had three Roomba's in the last 12 years. They are not good if there is someone with long hair in the place, hair will strip off the brushes in no time. Robby died of a stuck left wheel after 2 years Son of Robby died from a stuck right wheel after 3 years Zombie Robby, with parts from

Re: OT: Robo Vacs

2020-01-20 Thread mike smith
The cheap ones don't have a very good coverage, I keep meaning to hack the code with something better On Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 21:20 David Connors wrote: > Hi All, > > Very off topic but what success has anyone had here with robo vacs? > > Our 11 month old German Shepherd is blowing her coat and th

OT: Robo Vacs

2020-01-20 Thread David Connors
Hi All, Very off topic but what success has anyone had here with robo vacs? Our 11 month old German Shepherd is blowing her coat and the place is dog hair central hence the question. I know a few people who have had them but they've died after a few months etc. The better ones that can self empt