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I absolutely hate my iRobot vacuum. Constantly getting stuck and does a poor job of actually vacuuming. Not to mention the wireless beacons it requires cost ~1/3 the cost of the actual unit.



Just buy a Xiaomi vacuum. Half the price, and no wireless beacons needed to be usable.

It gets stuck as well by default, but I set up a lot of red zones on the app and now it finishes perfectly almost every time.


I have the new Roomba (i7) and you can use the app to draw boxes on your floor layout to tell it not to go places.

This is good for me because I try to avoid things that need batteries that must be changed.


What wireless beacons? Do you mean the lighthouses that mark ‘no go’ zones?

For the record I’m quite happy with mine.




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