Kimber,
Will do! In fact, while I was cogitating upon the last 1 per cent, my
partner went ahead and ordered it for me. So, fingers crossed because, although
there are people here on the list with experience of the Neato range, no-one
has mentioned having the newest incarnation, so, complete accessibility is
still to be ascertained.
It should take a couple of weeks to get to me, then I will need a little
time to play and, after that, will report back if people are interested.
By the way, for those who like to Jail-break their phones,or generally,
take a lateral view of computers, there is a bit of a vibrant community of
robot vacuum hackers. I am wondering how long it will be before my BotVac will
be able to respond to my voice, like Siri, and, applying gentle suction, go
pick up the post! Or find that dropped 20 Euro note and retrieve it for me?
What really always gets me about these Bots is, and this is even more true of
the Neato Bot, their ability to navigate round objects, through rooms, leaving
a particular spot and then, after refeulling, return to that same spot. All
using a very small collection of computing power. Why can't I have something
that will do that? I have the impression that there could be something to learn
from this technology which could be very relevant for us re mobility.
Rambling again, sorry!
I will stop on this until I have some concrete info!
Sandy.
sent from the dark side of the moon
> On 1 Jun 2016, at 12:03, Kimber Gardner <kimbersinbox1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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