Yes. I had it set to once a day when I was out. Unfortunately the house got a bit out of hand and I haven't found a stable place to park it to set up a schedule again (small children, lots of small stuff on the floor).
Absolutely essential. Stick it under the bed for the hard to reach areas, or under the sofa.
I got a Lefant 201 after nearly getting a Eufy one. That's been 6 years ago. Saved my sanity.
some search result remnants seem to suggest they're Xiaomi, I'd try Tuya with each type of vacuum selection (i.e. if you believe it's wifi, its also worth trying the Bluetooth options when adding a device)
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paying $300 for a vacuum that "retails for $1200" and barely comes up on google seems a bit backwards if your intention was to integrate into ha. I got my Lefant (m280 or something) for $180 new AUD, and it fuckin rules. Integrates easily as well.
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.
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.
We have a couple rumbas (irobot) 2 are the ones you don't have to empty each use. The one that needs to be emptied every use is the oldest we named her Roberta (12 years ago?) I have 3 levels so ended up buying a vacuum for each level. The self emptying ones are great but expensive! I bought mine on Amazon in the warehouse section so didn't pay full price. We also have a lafant brand. Some knock off it also works great but is very generic and the app no longer works. Most of our flooring is hardwood, tile and carpet in the bedrooms. The rooms that don't have carpet do have area rugs.
The problem with all of them is:
They get stuck ( wedged under the corner of the sofa-type situation) Roberta has a habit of getting stuck in the center under the king size bed. Not always but happens.
The light weight washable rugs are a problem - same with any vacuum.
They can't get in the corners.
They close a door behind themselves and get locked in a room then run their batteries down and can't return.
Sometimes it's like they never docked ( think of being at the boat ramp watching a 1st timer getting their boat on the trailer now think of them drunk) before and don't get back on the charger. You don't notice until you realize the floor needs vacuumed.
Finding a permanent location to keep them is an issue.
You have to make sure everything is up off the floor, including cords, cat toys, dog toys, your socks...
They can be noisy - but not as much as a regular vacuum.
Some people ( this is what I was told when I was looking) say the batteries fail. I knock on wood haven't had this problem. Roberta is at least 12 years old , Rob is 8 and Mildred is 6 ish. The white guy (Lefant brand- it's a white vacuum) is also 6.
Pros:
All of the ones we have no matter the name brand or generic work amazingly well.
it's fantastic to come home and the floor is vacuumed.
They can vacuum under the bed and any furniture that has legs about 4" off the floor.
They don't have a problem making the transition from hardwood to area rug or to carpet.
They don't fall down the stairs.
They can be programmed to vacuum on a schedule.
One thing about the name brand is there are generic supplies and parts ( brushes, and whatever the bigger green things are- they aren't brushes but work like brushes) .
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Qrevo S
82% positive of 254 users
Reliable, great mopping (lifts pads), but poor cable avoidance.
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