I bought a Lefant m1 on Amazon for $200AUD.
Set it up with the Tuya app and home assistant integration rather than the lefant app it recommends.
It sits on an IoT VLAN in my home network behind adhuard home dns.
The vacuum pings baidu.com daily but adgaurd silently drops those requests.
Uninstalled the android app once it was all talking and HA triggers it 4 times a week.
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On a tighter budget and mostly hard floors a slim puck does the job, like this [lefant one](https://google.com/share.google?q=a7V1cBTgoCAzoLNFK), it slides under sofas and has a simple app. Don't forget to set a daily schedule, throw a couple no-go zones where it snags, swap filters and side brushes on a calendar. That routine will prob extend it's life by a lot.
Scoop litter minimum twice a day. I have a house cleaner on Wednesday. I just bought an automatic floor sweeper, a Levante and Love it. Im kind of clean freak.
I don’t see this brand often suggested but my Lafant (with LiDAR) has been a great investment for our household. I was able to integrate using the Tuya integration. And the mapping function works real nice.
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Reading this I wonder if robot vacuums are ready for prime time -- all of them. I have two Lefants. One worked great for years, the second one required a call to Amazon's tech help within the month. They told me how to do a factory reset. That worked for about a month. Then it started beeping continuously and wouldn't run. What it had must be contagious (snark) because the one that worked great started doing something similar -- runs about one minute then stops and starts beeping. Tech help was no help. My guess is it might be something to do with my wireless so I'm not sure I can blame the robot. Maybe if they went back to the drawing board and just made a robot you didn't have to use your phone to work. That would take one unknown out of the problem of fixing them when they go wrong. Just an observation after reading the posts here.
lol what the fuck got up OPs ass about robot vacs? I have a LeFant I got for $90. Thing runs 4 hours or so on one charge. I run it every day. I only empty it once a week. The maintenance I put in takes literally 3 minutes. It saves me at least an hour worth of sweeping a week.
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