iRobot - j7 (7150)

I know I came from the J7 worked well and then the contract ended, not interested in paying for something beyond its price and it was starting to have issues, so we retired it and went with d and 7 months later it's not what they said it would be and IRo better get their game together fast or the once leader in floor robots will be gone and all that will be left is.......

2 dogs as well and the last robot (dreame) could not handle the hair, but the Older J7 roomba no mop did a great job. the Narwal flow and the Ecovacs are at the top of the list right now. Next week and in November are possible launches for newer vac/mops so we will see. cant say much on the wifi issue

irobot roomba j7 is very quiet, it recognizes obstacles and cleans hard floors perfectly. https://www.irobot.co.uk/en_GB/irobot-roomba-j7/J715840.html

you’re wrong. roomba J-series with obstacle detection will never run over even the thinnest cable. even if it is a small part of the cable.

I bought MO on a Amazon Prime Days sale - refurbished. Roomba i or j7 or similar, I forget. And I got the tower with him which is the ONLY way I will ever own one of these robots again, after a period of time where I had a dust cup error and had to find a dusty/grimy robot, flip him over, empty the cup and then reseat it without errors. The tower holds a bag where the cup can be emptied, especially if it fills up halfway through the run. I do not ever want to manually have to do this with a robot vacuum. I \*hate\* dust cups even on stick vacuums. He is not the sole link between dirty floors and clean for me. I still have to vacuum with my full-size vacuum, but I have to vacuum less (once a month if no one comes over) and I can keep the main vacuum upstairs now. I love how he can be scheduled, MWF at 10am. I have joked at times he is the most reliable guy in my life. He is happiest on an open floor plan with steady borders (furniture stays in one place and there are no random piles of objects or clothes or toys appearing) and no changes in floor level (my old house had a sunken 2nd living room I had to tell him didn't exist or he'd get stuck). Cords and anything with dangling strings are the worst enemy. And he will suck up little legos or earrings without you knowing that he did. But his existence does help me with keeping the floor cleaner, for him. He can go under our new IKEA sofa which worries me, but at the same time I just picked up a backpack and a purse a few moments ago so he won't be impeded on his next run. I'm letting him map the place and I may block off areas again as needed. He's not always a perfect perpetual self-maintaining tool. He's having a problem in the new house with getting seated on his base with the charging ports properly so he charges every time. I'll have to troubleshoot that. In the old house he'd get stuck on sunken areas or wedge under furniture frequently and if not rescued promptly, he runs out of juice. I would usually have to send the kids to hunt him down and rescue him. He's also not the quietest, but I don't necessarily mind it unless I have a meeting scheduled at the same time (I work from home), but I can just pause him with the app on my phone at any time. Noise also helps the cats know he's coming and they just give him a wide berth. Oh and if you get one, buy the bulk packs of non-branded replacement parts off Amazon - way cheaper and just as good. The base takes vacuum bags and he has a rubber beater "brush", sweeper side brushes and a filter that all wear out over time (couple times a year). I keep an eye on them and the app keeps track of the expected life of each. He also needs googly eyes - I have been remiss in this. But he's a part of my household now. I am chronically ill so there have been times in the past few years that he was the ONLY vacuuming that got done and he helped us keep a much cleaner house.

Idk. I’ve seen a couple videos of the 705 and I’m shocked at how inferior its obstacle detection and avoidance is compared to both of my J7s. I think my J7 dragged a charging cord once in 3yrs. But the 705s on YouTube ran over cords, kids toys etc. so far the 705 can still avoid dog poop. Thank goodness.

Idk, my last LiDAR robot scratched the shit out of all my baseboards where my J7s with the wall sensors perfectly ride along the edge barely touching them. But close enough for the edge sweeper to do its job.

I’ll just chime in that the two Roomba J7s I got refurbed, have been great. A little glitchy at times. But I’ve not heard of a single robot that is never glitchy. Initial mapping took forever but the VSlam navigation and obstacle detection and avoidance have been awesome. I’m coming from an old WYZE LiDAR robot so the bar was low. There are tons of parts for the J series so I’m happy about longevity. Hopefully IRobot survives so the app servers stay on….

I have the j7 and I have taken it apart more than once to clean it and I'm not super happy with it. I got it at Costco so it might go back before they go belly up. I'll try it again a few more days but I didn't even have it plugged in for 6 months... because we had renovations going on in the house. It's Black Friday week but I prefer to buy from Costco because they do have such a good return policy.

I have a roomba j7 and I have two dogs, it's great with dog hair

I have a J7 as well and it works pretty good but there have been some times when it disconnects from WiFi and I would have to reset the whole vacuum and go through the set up again for it to work again. I think I got my first one about 5 years ago though, so maybe it's been updated since

I have "only" owned 3. A ecovacs which always broke, a brava moping one and a i robot j7.  My favorite is the i robot j7. It has an auto empty version, but I have the regular. It has object detection (4/5 stars) and room mapping (2/5) over the 3 years I've had it it does stupid crap all the time with room boundaries and eating paper, but I can fix that if I go fight with the settings I hope. My fav part is the robustness, if it encounters a huge problem, the only parts that break are those (and then rarely) are those meant to swap out. 

They were joking cause J6 and Jan 6 sound the same. That being said, the J6 is slightly different than the J7 in that they’ve software locked object awareness to the J7, J8 (official Costco model), J9. The J6 is their unspoken “budget” flagship to the J7. In the Same way the J5+ is the “budget” model of the J9+ super similar but missing some key conveniences. I would actually recommend the J7 over the J6 if it’s possible for a good price but idk if I’d spend an extra 400-500 on it just for the object detection over other options.

Single one. I had a J7 before, dual rollers. For now, I didn’t notice a drop in quality for vacuuming with a single roller. I ran a full house cleaning run yesterday and we we’re impressed with the results.