Life with a robot, I hope everyone is doing their best, I was thinking about this for years, and yes, an online provider made it extremely easy with small fees that I decided to take the plunge, I will not share brand or supplier, but I want to share the experience and I am posting the link to the video that tipped the scales here, the guy is good.
The learning curve was not as bad as I expected, no assembly was necessary, once the unit arrived it was a matter of loading, and letting it learn the house, two days later, a couple of container cleaning later, YES it did a map of the house, I even learned to use the mapping system to map the NO PASSES zones inside your house.
The biggest caveat is the charging cables, and as I saw some great videos about it, I go an extra step to make sure the area doesn’t have any cables on the floor, it won’t be a good experience, keep those charging cables away.
Growing up in the 70s / 80s, whenever I saw a cleaning robot, I would always think about the movie with KISS vocalist – Gene / Magnum – Tom (1984), and it usually happened. But I had this purchase on my wish list forever. So far my robot hasn’t tried to kill me but I keep an eye on her, yes you have to pick a name when you install the app so I picked something cute, Robot 1, still too scary for me, and yes you. you can choose a masculine name for yours.
You can let the robot clean your house in one go, but depending on the size, a little container cleaning will be needed and could interfere with your schedule, so in my experience, let the whole house mapping work. for as long as necessary. needs, it took me about 3/4 hours, some container recharge and cleaning happened in between. Once the house map was completed (using a phone app), I was able to divide the house into sections, I tried the scheduler, but the app wanted to allow a 3 hour gap between cleaning, so I dropped and in Instead, I saved “Jobs” and you get a button for “Living Room”, “Kitchen”, etc.
Yes, you can connect with Alexa, but the reviews / experiences are mixed, for now I control it with the phone app. Have fun and just in case have that baseball bat handy :-).