My wife was skeptical when I told her how much Rosie was, but after a couple of cleaning cycles, she’s now bragging to her friends about our new Roomba!

In about a month of operation, a Roomba has completed a cleaning cycle without any problem about half of the time

Now it takes him 35 minutes to an hour to clean each cycle

Learning for me consisted of not just reading and following the manufacturer's instructions for setting up the unit, but watching it over several cleaning cycles interact with the contents of my rooms, noting what posed problems for the unit, and figuring out how to make minor changes to the arrangement of items in the rooms to minimize or eliminate problems.

I tried one of their more inexpensive models years ago, and came to the conclusion that there were a lot of problems that they still had to work out with their design; mostly that it was too high-maintenance, and encountered too many difficulties during cleaning cycles to be considered truly automatic by any honest/reasonable assessment

Press Clean once to wake up your Roomba and again to initiate a cleaning cycle

The robot eventually cleans everything, even though it seems like a random exercise (first day is more random than next as it learns the layout), the first cleaning period before charging is the longest due to the all night charge (about 90 minutes with a mix of carpets and hard floor), interim charging periods are approximately 90 minutes long with 1 hour cleaning cycles after that, the noise is comparable to a regular vacuum when in "carpet boost" mode which it automatically senses when on carpets, on some of our carpets it does not get all of our dog's white hair, these are the carpets that usually require a bit more "back and

Because of the noise and the long cleaning cycles, there are actually few times per week when it is practical to operate the Roombas.

Must empty bin twice during a cleaning cycle it gets so much dirt

You can also schedule a recurring cleaning cycle and other settings such as Carpet Boost (this feature automatically cleans harder when it detects a rug or carpet), Two Cleaning Passes (the default is one, although it will still use its debris detector as needed) and Edge Clean (this cleans around the perimeter of a room to make

You can also schedule a recurring cleaning cycle and other settings such as Carpet Boost (this feature automatically cleans harder when it detects a rug or carpet), Two Cleaning Passes (the default is one, although it will still use its debris detector as needed) and Edge Clean (this cleans around the perimeter of a room to make

We just keep these set up all the time and switch out rechargeable batteries as needed (so far we haven't needed to).It takes maybe two minutes of prep in the morning before Roomba starts her cleaning cycle

The details:In August 2017, I started having problems with the Roomba not being able to properly recognize the Virtual Walls (in Halo mode) and because of that, every cleaning cycle would have the Roomba get stuck at least 3 or 4 times (sometimes multiple times in the same spot in my kitchen or hallway)

However, be patient, it takes 2-4 cleaning cycles for the unit to completely learn your home.

The phone app was easy to setup and is able to configure the Roomba schedule and clean cycle (1x or 2x per room, auto 'super clean' mode on carpet, etc).

It has only successfully completed a cleaning cycle about 3-4 times.

The suction and brushes work very well and by the end of the cleaning cycle the bin is always full

I'm in Tucson right now, 70 miles from home, and I just used the Roomba app to start a cleaning cycle while I'm out of town

It wont start the next cleaning cycle if it still senses a full bin.

With our floor plan, it takes 3 full cleaning cycles before it has cleaned the entire first floor, but this thing does a FANTASTIC job on our hardwoods.

after each cleaning cycle without confusing the Roomba when it’s performing the next one

To run it through its paces, I have been manually running it through a clean cycle twice a day.

The cleaning cycles for multiple rooms can take 5 or more hours, including multiple returns to home base for recharging.

In other words, if it's not finished before you're home or want quite, you have to stop its cleaning cycle

I'm pretty sure its picking up more dirt since I have to empty the bin 2 times now for my house where as before I would only do it once per cleaning cycle

I would say that happens about half of it's cleaning cycles.

When I did that after a ‘spot cleaning’ cycle, Roomba started cleaning normally - an area about 2 ft wide and 12 feet long, and then went back to where it was at the end of the spot cleaning cycle, not back to the dock.

App is easy to useThis one uses wifi, so you can start your cleaning cycle from anywhere from your phonecomes with some battery charge so you can see it in action as soon as you take it out of the boxset-up was a snap

I had to empty the bin twice during the cleaning cycle and it went to the home base twice during this time.

Occasionally the canister full indicator light comes on when there is only slight obstruction on the filter - does not stop the cleaning cycle though

So now I usually pick up the rugs and cords before a cleaning cycle

(1) it can find its home base, recharge, and resume the cleaning cycle; (2) it is much smarter about not getting fouled up in things like socks that were left on the ground by kids; (3) it edges around obstacles rather than trying to clean by randomization

It will "hit" objects the first time is cleans a pattern of rooms but appears to learn and not ram them after a couple of cleaning cycles.

The app can get funky at times... during a cleaning cycle if u want the robot to march back to its base, it sometimes gives you the option to instruct the robot to head back to base and sometimes that option is not available.3.

But if you schedule your Roomba to clean on a weekly basis, you may be finding you'll have to empty the debris a few times during its cleaning cycle

A few new features that I like are: (1) Sequential cleaning & charging cycles to clean the ENTIRE (very large) house 100%.

So since last night I've had to restart the cleaning cycle like ten times already because when it errors out it doesn't just resume, and after several hours of running in my house I still don't have the house fully vacuumed

But after that initial 9 months, its operation got worse (requiring much more manual intervention for every cleaning cycle) and in the end, I would not recommend this device to others

For almost all of the errors, it is impossible to continue the cleaning cycle and a new one must be started from scratch

During a normal cleaning cycle in my house, the Roomba would return and fully recharge the batter twice.

I does better than I expected on carpet (pretty good, but not quite as good as my corded upright).The learning period is, I think, critical to ensuring you get not just acceptable, but really good performance from the unit and you can count on it to go through a full cleaning cycle without needing any assistance.

* If you have a large single floor house with lots of walls, it may take up to 3 charge/clean cycles to get the whole house, this equates to about 9 hours, but it depends on layout

A nice potential upgrade would be a graphical interface showing a map of the house with the robot's progress during a cleaning cycle.

It will start its cleaning cycle and will stop temporarily if the bin gets full or if it needs to return to its home base to recharge

I usually get about an hour and 45 minutes per charge, and it has to recharge once to complete the cleaning cycle

This piece of crap gets "stuck" and has to be picked up and moved 4 to 5 times per cleaning cycle

Many times, it would get an unknown error and then restart the entire cleaning cycle rather than continuing where it left off

I have an air compressor and about once per week (every three cleaning cycles

It takes about 1.5 hours to charge, so a cleaning cycle is usually about 3.5 - 4 hours.

The compartment to remove the dirt is relatively small, but after the first two cleanings where I had to empty it mid-clean, it had done the entire cleaning cycle without me emptying it.

Some days it has done one room and ends the cleaning cycle without going anywhere else

It gets stuck at the end of a cleaning cycle trying to get back to the charger - which it cannot find from more than 3-feet away.

And would not return to the base to recharge if the batt was low during the cleaning cycle.

About half of the cleaning cycles have ended early because of errors.

Better yet, I've learned to pick up and straighten up after myself, so a cleaning cycle can start with little or no preparation.

I really like this although I did find I had to service the bin after the first cleaning cycle even though they recommend much less frequently.

It's also prudent to make simple preparations prior to each cleaning cycle.

I hit the home button, hoping the robot would find the base and 'go home,' but instead, it continued the cleaning cycle where it left, just behind the speaker pedestal

It does take a few cleaning cycles to really map out the layout of the house; but once it does, it moves from room to room very efficiently, remembering where it has been and where it still needs to clean

That said, there are about 4 other areas in the room that I use the Roomba in where it will get wedged multiple times per cleaning cycle still

But with the app, you can just tell it to not clean that day or if its in the middle of a clean cycle, cancel it and go to the base, all through the app

then over time you'll get a full cleaning cycle in and you just have to remember to empty the bin each night

Unfortunately in the six months we've had the unit it seems to only finish a cleaning cycle about 70% of the time.

I also found that running the vacuum when you are at work makes for a quicker, more efficient work cycle due simply to the fact that people move around, move chairs, and other daily home stuff making the robot have to re-learn moved objects during a cleaning cycle

The first few days the bin filled fast and it needed to be emptied once during the cleaning cycle which just proves what a better job it does then my current vacuum.

Now I let the roomba do a full cleaning cycle once a day and my floors have never looked cleaner

so I can change my schedule or start a cleaning cycle without even being home

there is a lot to clean up!We have hard wood, carpeting and stone with an L shaped ground floor