Interesting to see what all of us Neato refugees ended up with. We loved our "fleet" of D7's and D4's, in spite of their flaws. Since our floors are mainly tile, the wife really wanted one that would hopefully reduce her need to mop to just "deep cleaning" like the vacuums did for that. So far we're enjoying our Dreame L40's, as they give us that functionality that we would not have bought yet if the neatos hadn't had the plug pulled on us.
I hope your new unit provides the same upgrade as ours did.
A used Neato D3 through D7. Should be on eBay for almost nothing since the cloud was turned off. They still work if you push the button and they have lidar. If you push the button and it doesn't start cleaning, open and close the dust bin. The dust bin reminder was cloud based so you wouldn't realize they are waiting for someone to check the dust bin.
I run 11 Neatos 90 minutes 5 days per week in our house while we swim in another part of the house. Been doing it for 10 years. Not always the same Neato's though they are very repairable and I've made many repairs on them through the years.
Neato was the first with lidar. It was D shaped so it got edges and the aggressive brush was full width. Unfortunately it was over engineered like they were building a rocket ship with all kinds of sensors to make sure everything was working perfectly and sometimes sensors went bad throwing an error stopping it from running when it was perfectly fine. Company was purchased by a German company that destroyed it and they went out of business 2.5 years ago but kept the cloud servers running until recently. They can still be used manually by pressing the start button. But lots of features are gone. We use 11 so they are all done while we are swimming. We are retired and don't want to listen to them running for 8 hours per day if we just ran 1 per house level.
Bought a Neato back in 2020, only for them to shut down in 2023.
Parents gave me their old Roomba when they got new flooring earlier this year, and now Roomba's on the rocks.
I am the kiss of death for robot vacuum companies. I will accept no other explanation.
Similar requirements from my side: not Chinese, only vacuum (don't need mop), has LiDAR, available in Europe (sorry Matic...).
I had a Neato Botvac but it needs repairs and I understand the company doesn't work on robots anymore.
What about Hobot (made in Taiwan I think) or Miel (made in S. Korea I think)? Both companies are absent from all tests I see online? Why?
Any opinions on these two?
Ive had my eufy s1 pro since November. Run it once a day in my small 4 bedroom house. As a bit of a torture test i ran it twice a day for all of Dec and Nov. Its doing great so far. I like all of the maintenance countdowns the app has for when and what to clean and replace. Doesnt miss much of anything and doesn't run it stuff. I love the map and how it shows where it is so i can find it if it gets stuck on a cat toy under a bed or sofa. Still miss my neato botvac tho, that little guy was a beast.
Sadly today is my last day using my neato connect. The company went under a year or two ago and last night the app finally went dark and with it so did my favorite robot vacuum. Woke up to it bricked this morning. The little guy had an amazing 5ish year run and was still in its prime.
With that said, im now on the hunt for a new fancy robot vacuum. Ive been looking at the switchbot s20. Kinda like the idea of having a water line and drain line to streamline the mopping. Anyone out there have one or feeling on the brand and model? Id love to know how long the water lines are. I was thinking I could set it up in the laundry room and attach it to the washer's water and drain.
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