j7 (7150)

Your experience must be with the cheaper Roombas. I bought a $500 Roomba and base and my experience was the same as yours. Hot trash. Sent it back and even that was a bad experience, they never refunded me and I had to do a credit card charge back. But then I bought a $250 roborock + base. Wayyyyyy better. Never have to tinker with it. Completes our kitchen, dining room, main bedroom, and living room in 35-40 minutes. Does multiple floors/mapping. Vac and mop. A lot quieter than the Roomba. Very clean floors, like I'm blown away at how well it vacs, the Roomba left little crumb piles  everywhere. I have not manually vacuumed anything since I've bought it other than to spot clean when my dogs destroy a toy or something. Overall there is a reason irobot is going out of business. Roombas are overpriced and perform poorly. But not all robot vacuums are created equal and other brands are both cheaper and higher in quality.

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

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.......

At the risk of being downvoted to the 7th level of Hell. I have been using two refurbed Roomba J7s on my main floor and basement. They’ve worked great so far. Very few errors or issues.

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.

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….

Roomba j7, it does the kitchen every day, and the rest of the house every 2 days. Works great, even though it’s VSlam. Sees and skips obstacles, pet toys and messes. 🤞

My old Roomba j7 sees and avoids cables every single time. 🤷🏻

Nope. I’m still rocking out two Roomba J7s I got refurbed. I know it’s popular to hate on iRobot, but they’ve worked well for me so far. Good navigation, good cleaning, lots of replacement parts. It’s even skipped a surprise pet mess. That was nice.

TLDR: my Roomba sucks and I want to upgrade. We have had a J7 for about 3 years now. The first 6 months to a year, it was fine. Then started experiencing small problems here and there. The tread disintegrated at one point, then it kept getting disconnected from wifi. Within the last year, it has become completely useless. Object detection doesn’t work at all. It eats socks or cords that are touching the ground and then gets trapped, the map gets messed up and it has to be factory reset. And it loses wifi connection halfway through a run, and ends up wandering or ending its job early, only to not be able to find the dock. This has been after a factory reset, after a new map run, after wifi reset, after disconnecting from my phone, and after ALL parts including a battery were replaced. So I’m pretty much done with the Roomba. Before the Roomba. We had a Roborock S5 that was fine other than not being able to handle our shag rug at the time. And before that, we had a Eufy 11S that was terrible at object detection. It was slim enough to go under some of the furniture, but was just the right height to get itself aggressively wedged under most of our lower furniture. What’s a good upgrade I can get? My home is a smaller house, only 1 floor. Mostly tile/hardwood. Some medium thickness rugs. 2 long haired pets that shed a ton. A kid that drops crumbs. Specifically, my highest priority would be I’d prefer something that is good for all of the pet hair and dirt. And good at obstacle detection (especially cat barf or a forgotten toy or sock. Or a cord end that is dangling onto the floor). And app usage that is pretty good. I’d need a map with the ability to create boundaries to avoid. I do not care about a mop and would likely never use the mop feature.

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 "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. 

Irobot has a camera for object avoidance. I think it works pretty great.  It worked perfectly in the beginning, but God forbid when you are training the ai(?) by reviewing the photos you ever allow anything as "not an obstacle" then it will run over similar things forever. Like string, after I told it a cord off the ground was not an obstacle. :(