Sandy, If you do end up buying a Botvac, I would be interested to hear how you like it.
Kimber On 5/31/16, 'Sandratomkins' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Don't want to tire people with all this talk of robot vacuums, but, just > thought, rather than leave it in the air, primarily extolling the virtues of > the Roomba range of vacs, I would mention the competition, which also has an > app, and which, I am 99 per cent certain, I am going to buy. It is the > BotVac Connect from Neatorobotics. It is about 200 dollars cheaper and has > great reviews. I downloaded the app, which is a free app, created an > account, which was easy, and now am playing with my pretend Bot, wishing it > were real! In other words, it looks like the app is VO friendly, but one > does need to have a Bot to be sure to be sure. From my reading, and playing > with the app, I see that you can get push notifications as to how the bot is > doing. This would me most useful as otherwise the info would be shown on the > display and, therefor, not accessible to us. Notifications might be, for > example, "I need emptying", "My brushes need cleaning", "my sensors need a > wipe", "I have finished cleaning and am docked" or "I am stuck, please help > me!". Once it is linked to the house wifi, you can use the app to get him to > do the whole of one floor, from anywhere in the world. If he gets, say, half > way through his task and needs to refuel, he will dock himself and once > recharged, will return to where he left off and continue! Pretty good IMHO. > > Sandy. > > sent from the dark side of the moon > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kimberly -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.