iRobot - Roomba j7 Series

I have two dogs and two cats and the j7+ works just fine

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 Roomba J7+. It was their first one that they say will avoid poo. Fortunately, we've never had to test that in the year we have had Ranger. It works well, but iRobot is having issues with money right now and the model is older. If you get one, it is important to remember that they still require regular maintenance to keep them from getting clogged or overwhelmed with hair.

Hair wraps around the brushes and needs to be removed. If you get a self emptying unit, they cannot get all of the dust out of the bin. Filters need to be cleaned and changed.

Me, too. This is why I'm here--time to replace Dumbot. This will be my 4th robot vac and definitely not looking at iRobot!

My J7+ has always sucked, in all the wrong ways. I named it Dumbot. All I hear is Alexa saying "your Dumbot is stuck". Never understood the great reviews for it.

I have 3 j7+ Combos that are all about a year old to a year and a half and I’m watching this all in horror.

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. :(

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. 

I had the J7+ and it beat the hell out of everything. Upgraded to a revo master and it was a major improvement. I can trust it not to even touch my furniture and speakers, and it doesn't randomly get lost. I stopped updating the J7 because they broke it so many times I stopped trusting them.

We love ours. We have one for upstairs and downstairs. Don’t try to get a cheap one, we did that and went through a couple of them pretty quickly. Now we have two good ones (iRobot) with the bin that they self empty into when they get full. We have three kids, two dogs, and a cat that sheds more than both dogs combined, and having robot vacuums has been a game changer. Before we got the one with the bins, it would get full and need emptying before it finished a whole cycle. Now it goes and empties itself and then goes back to cleaning. It’s some trial and error at first. Just run it the first few times when you’re watching it to see where it has any problems. Then you can try to adjust any problem areas. Our upstairs vacuum doesn’t go into the bedrooms because the kids have lots of tiny Barbie shoes and stuff. We have them clean up good and just regular vacuum real quick every other week or so (and we keep bedroom doors closed so the pets don’t go in there to keep hair shedding out). But the robot keeps the main areas of the house from getting hairballs and dirty. We recently got a robot mop as well, and that has been awesome! I feel like it’s just like having any other vacuum. You have to get everything picked up off the floor before you start. You wouldn’t start regular vacuuming with things still on the floor. If there are areas that it gets stuck often, either block it off or try to adjust any problem areas. We usually pull all of the dining room chairs away from the table so that it can get a good clean under the table and around it. We run the vacuums & mop anytime we leave the house, and it’s so nice coming home to freshly vacuumed and mopped floors!

Comprámos um Roomba topo de gama uma vez e nunca mais quisémos outra coisa 😭ele apercebe-se de obstáculos, faz uma limpeza profunda e limpa-se e carrega-se sozinho. Como vivemos num apartamento também de piso único mas grande, com 3 gatos (1 é persa), ele basicamente é quem limpa o chão. O nosso funciona segundas, quartas e sextas a iniciar às 09h00 e é uma beleza... Controlas tudo na app e ele vai dando feedback. Nós temos também o Braava (o que lava o chão) e que pode ser programado para avançar quando o Roomba termina de aspirar mas esse não recomendo... Preferimos ser nós a lavar o chão porque ele deixa muita coisa por lavar e não se queixa de falta de água então às vezes está a funcionar a fingir que lava o chão mas quando ouves o esguicho, não sai água 😂foi uma má compra só porque estava em black friday. Sei que existem outras marcas boas e mais baratas que a Roomba, nós por acaso fomos por nome e até agora estamos bastante satisfeitos. Usamos um aspirador de mão para chegar a lugares mais espinhosos mas o nosso Roomba faz muito bem os cantinhos todos e tem um pet sense? então desvia-se de vomitados (bolas de pelo). Supostamente desvia-se de cócós. Foi assim que morreu o nosso primeiro Roomba... engasgado em merd\* porque um dos nossos gatos fez o serviço com o rabo virado para o lado de fora... génio. Quando vimos que este tinha esse sensor, comprámos e ajuda que também mudámos as caixas de areia para as automáticas e o design da caixa deve ter feito qqr coisa que os nossos gatos nunca mais se 'desorientaram' 🙄