So we have had our Robot Vacuum since November 2020, it has been working great for almost three years. Now it no longer will return to charge, we have tried moving it to a new location, cleaned the contacts, reset the map, performed a full reset, but still having problems. Wyze support seems useless, telling me i am out of warranty and can’t return it. I want to fix my problem not return the vacuum. I have attached a video showing the vacuum attempting to charge but the slowly turning, making a racket, moving off the contacts and shutting down. Sometimes if it has a decent charge it will come off the charger and continue to run in circles until the battery gets low or I shut it down.
@b25pilot – I can’t see your videos, and I am on a Mac – although an older version.
So I am in the blind. I do know of an old issue where the vacuum had problems if the charger was on a soft or uneven surface, tho. So, if your vacuum charger is on carpet, move that to a solid surface like tile. If that helps, then Wyze does now sell a more solid pad to go on carpets for $5:
@Newshound – the floor is tile. The first video, on the charger, it was trying to rotate in-place. In the second video the vacuum is going in circles and hitting a chair leg.
Check that both wheels are working properly. Assuming no debris, slowly turn each wheel by hand, does the rotation feel similar between them?
If the floor is tile, it is not what I mentioned. So that is there for previous issues.
I have no experience on the current version, as I have not been invited to join it. I am on 1.6.192, which isn’t even listed on the release notes page, lol. That is at least a year ago.
No invite to go higher.
Just communicating an old issue and solution, which you do not appear to have.
November 2020, I decided to fully disassemble, cleaned the interior, checked all the wiring connections. After assembly, still doing the same, after a few attempts I got it to stay on the charger.
Not officially. Otherwise, I do not know of anyone successfully replacing the firmware on a Wyze Robot Vacuum. Most recently I saw a method for un-bricking that involves copying the firmware from a working unit onto the broken unit. Sounds like the ability to do that has been patched-out in more recent firmware.
I don’t think it immediately overwrites the saved map though?
@b25pilot Open the multi-floor sidebar and check, if you have an additional floor, switching between them will force a reload. Normally need to do a full run and successful dock before it writes out the map.
I tried placing an object to block the LIDAR on top of the robot. It just caused it to bump into things more, but otherwise it continued doing the perimeter sweep like normal. The LIDAR has to compensate for those cover standoffs after-all.
Response to LIDAR obstructions (around robot perimeter)
Response to bumping
Response to random bumping (including after perimeter sweep)
Upper-left: Used bumping to keep out of an area
Lower-left: Used LIDAR obstruction to keep out of an area.
It would be useful to see a video of it happening.
