• Reviews around barrier (2.79 of 5)

    iRobot Roomba 690 Robot Vacuum with Wi-Fi Connectivity, Works with Alexa, Good for Pet Hair, Carpets, Hard Floors

    • The invisible barrier works great in case you want to keep it from wandering in some forbidden area!
    • You get one little invisible barrier to keep it from going into an off-limits area, but that's it
    • It does come with one invisible barrier to keep it from going
    • I then restricted it with the supplied invisible barrier to our dining area and kitchen which is approximately 200
    • Lastly, it does not always recognize the included “virtual wall” barrier, which is a nuisance at best, hazardous to home contents at worst (it has entered a “blocked” room that contained fragile items standing on the
    • Comes with 1 invisible barrier but if you have pets good luck
    • My only problem is my open floor plan that requires several of the expensive virtual barriers to contain it.
    • Our barrier gets knocked over by our cats all the time which then makes it useless when I’m not home to stand it back up.
    • If you have kids though, make sure to pick up prior to letting this thing clean as it has gotten stuck in blankets and shoe laces
    • I have her set up to clean twice a
    • It took the robot a few days to get my carpet clean as it kept getting wires, twist ties and other
    • It handles one in the living room that has fringe on the ends and although the fringe gets 'out-of-whack' during the cleaning as it would with any vacuum it's easy enough to just kick back down when cleaning is over
    • I use Dyson cordless vacuum both for quick sweep through as well as for thorough house cleaning
    • Works as well as, or better than, a conventional vacuum
    • If you notice it's not cleaning as good as when you first got it, you probably need to empty the dust bin, I had to learn the hard way.
    • If you notice it's not cleaning as good as when you first got it, you probably need to empty the dust bin, I had to learn the hard way.
    • Ruby is still scheduled to clean daily & as I have a cat, that may continue if the amount of dust she picks up daily is constant
    • She starts and moves effortlessly, bumping her way along from room to room and cleaning as she goes.
    • Recommend buying extra spinners as they have to b replaced from time to time but inexpensive
    • I downloaded the app and all works as it should.
    • Now iRobot needs to invent one that can go up and down the steps, cleaning as it goes.
    • It would be nice if Samsung Bixby voice commands worked to start/stop cleaning - doesn't work as of today8.
    • The scheduling works exactly as you'd expect