A good workaround until this is changed is to set up a separate map of the area and use virtual walls to force the vac to clean only the desired “room” - basically create a hallway system to channel the vac to the desired area.
How do you set up a separate map of the area? There is just one map, like in the diagram above.
You can add additional maps for the same areas:
You don’t even need to do that for what I was referring to. Just use the no-go zones to create virtual hallways just wide enough for your vacuum to march through one room into the desired room you want to clean. I do that for a bedroom in the back of my house two rooms away from the dock and it works fine.
The only icon I have on my map screen is the pencil to edit the existing map. There are no other two icons which are displayed above it in the above pictures, and no option to add another map.
Tomp are you on a beta version that has yet to be released. My Robovac shows firmware 1.6.113, app version 2.26.21
I am a Beta tester but the images I posted are from the production app which I downloaded just for this issue. My FW is different which probably means it’s a Beta version. It been a long time since I had a FW update. I just checked and the current release FW for production is 1.6.113 (April 19, 2021), so even though I’m using the production app it must be a Beta FW issue.
Sorry - my mistake, but- look what you have to look forward to!
Wyze robo vaccum map editor- ability to delete areas
The lidar mapping capability and accuracy is extremely good; the app is no different. Ability to delete part of the map (or a room) will be a great addition.
I have a couple of rooms with large mirrors which extends close to the floor. The lidar sees it as another open space and I get an image of the room in the map!
I would definitely love to see map editing. I’ve come across this same issue and it’s very frustrating. I don’t need to clean my whole house everyday at once. Would be nice to tell my robot to go to my bathroom that sits in the center of the house and vacuum. Map editing is a must have.
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I have the same issue. I cannot divide my kitchen, breakfast area, foyer, or my family room using interior walls. My front room, and dining room divided just fine. I’ve remapped 5 times already. Am I doing something wrong?
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Promised alexa integration and better room mapping and splitting but and we get is…
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Robot Vacuum Wishlist - No Vacuum Zone, Backup Maps, Better Room Creation
Hi, here are my wish list items for the robot vacuum:
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Add ability to set “no vacuum zones”. I’m not sure if the no-go zone can do this, but if not, it would be nice to be able to identify areas, like our hardwood hallway, that the vacuum will cross, but not vacuum.
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Add the ability to backup saved maps (I’m using the beta version). When I initially map a floor, I do several things that I won’t do on a normal run. Such as tucking up bed skirts (the vacuum sees them as walls during the mapping process), moving items off the floor that I might not during a normal cleaning, etc. It’s enough work that I only want to do it once, so it would be nice if I could somehow backup these maps (cloud, phone, PC, whatever) as a precaution against losing them.
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Add a better way to define rooms in the map. Something similar to the process that creates no-go zones (adjustable rectangle) would be nice to specify rooms. The current process works well on “standard” rooms with hard walls, but there are exceptions. Our dining room is open on two sides. The current room process won’t let me accurately map the room because it doesn’t have hard walls to attach the “split line” to. The best I can do is attach a line from the far wall of the dining room to a wall in the hallway. Not ideal, especially if wish list number one is ever added.
Thanks!
[Mod Edit] Merged with an existing wishlist topic. Give it a vote to help it along!
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I have been using the beta firmware for a few months and like the enhancements. I thought I read that the vac was supposed to remap areas that it sees where furniture has been moved? That hasn’t happened at all. If I read it wrong, I would add that to a wishlist, please make the vac remap a single room/area and not have to remap the entire house.
I’d also like to have the ability to backup my home map and be able to restore it in the event of having to replace the vac
I’d like to have the ability to manually steer the vac to specific areas that I want to clean and not just have to map an area, which is usually larger than what I actually need.
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Otherwise, better map editing controls, backup, all of that, would be nice. Manual steering would have helped me greatly testing no-go zones. Since this robovac does not have front mounted lidar/cameras, it fails to see a lot of bad places to go. I’ve actually exhausted the max no-go count on one map.
Regarding no-go zones, I can’t count the number of times I’ve accidentally deleted or rotated ones I’ve placed precisely. Wish you could “lock” them. I had to resort to the Bluestacks Android emulator for my no-go editing (larger screen and more precise mouse control)
Thanks for the reply. My experience has been that it doesn’t see small changes and remap them. Example: in master bedroom we had a stand fan at the end of fall and moved it for winter. The vac continues to go around the spot instead of vacuuming over the area where the fan was. I have used the no-go zones too, and the vacuum an area function which helps some things. Just he inability to change on the fly is aggravating.
Am I understanding that it will only save changes if it is allowed to make a full run of the house? It doesn’t have enough battery to do the entire house and I usually have to break it into 2-3 runs to do everything.
Yes.
I had the same issue with it going around things that no longer existed, but if I let it do a full run it went into those new spots and updated the map. (Customize rooms will show the currently fully saved map)
Imperfect docking seems to also be a cause of lost map changes in my experience.
I use no-go zones to block off certain rooms, I have a mop-vac so I don’t have it go into hard-floor areas to save power.
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but bed skirts seem to mess it up sometimes. Our bedrooms are all on the second floor. When I mapped the floor, I moved everything I could off the floors, and tucked up all the bed skirts so the vacuum could clearly see under the beds. It mapped and vacuumed everything exactly as expected.
I just ran it on the saved map a second time. It vacuumed under two beds with the bed skirts down, but went around a pair of twin beds with bed skirts instead of going under them. I can’t really tell much difference between the skirts, so I’m not sure why it didn’t do the twin beds.
Shouldn’t it at least try to go somewhere that it mapped before, at least until it runs into something? it’s almost like it “saw” something in the way and just went around it.
It appears if the lidar sees something new that is sufficiently large/flat it will see it as a wall and it will not “bump” it. Going around corners and smaller objects like chair legs it does the bumping thing.
Does the map reveal a clue on what it saw differently between them?
I ran a remap because my original map orientation changed and confused the robot (another issue for another email…lol) But I just went through the phantom spot this morning. My wife had a bag of clothing she was donating sitting next to our dresser when I remapped. My wife took the bag the next day but the robot still thought it was still there. I thought LiDAR was designed to see these changes instantaneously and adapt? What sucks was that I did 3 full runs and it would not touch that spot. I even forced it there and nothing. I had to remap my whole house just to include a 12inch x 12x inch square. I feel if we had a clean zone option just like the no go zone, I could have created a temp small area for it to clean, send it there with the hope it learned it, and it would have made my life easier. I’m of the thought that I bought this robot to do something I don’t want to do. But if I have to watch it to make sure it does what it supposed to do, I could have done it my self in the first place. Kind of defeats the purposes.
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I’ve never had that issue. it’s probably because you remapped with the donation bag in the way. In my situation, if I leave something on the floor (like a laundry basket) it travels around the basket. The next time when the basket is gone, it resumes it’s normal path.
Mine has recently started acting up on one of my floors. It keeps scrambling the map when it starts on the last room, and it has done this several times in pretty much the exact same way. It ends up stuck in one of my no-go zones because of that. I can’t tell for sure, but the map it starts creating in the middle of the full vacuum run is probably rotated which seems to be a common type of mapping failure.
Related to the issue of not vacuuming new spots…
That spot is a map update from earlier. A full vacuum run will go into that new area, but notice the slight background color difference. I see small spots like this around the perimeter, but they’ve been tiny and inaccessible, except this one.
The last room is now done alone on its own schedule. So far that has solved the mapping issue, but now I see this…
It doesn’t want to fully enter into that lighter colored area.
Related: About Wyze Robot Vacuum Firmware 1.6.113
I have 1.6.173, all maps were generated on that version.
2022-08-10: I’ve worked through most of this, changing how rooms are divided until it stopped scrambling the map was one solution.
Wyze Robot Vacuum Features That Make Sense
I feel like the robot vacuum is nearly perfect. But two features I’d love to see added is a way to rotate your map and to be able to set as default rotation so it matches the orientation of your house. Sometimes on new maps I have to flip my phone upside down to orient it relative to where I and the charging dock face. Second would be a way to manually control/drive the vacuum so you can drive to a spot that needs cleaning. Lastly, a spot cleaning function which would allow you to drive the vacuum to said area and begin a spot cleaning which would allow different cleaning patterns. Eufy has it to where you can drive to a spot, then select the vacuum to vacuum in a spiral to spot clean. These would be heavily used features by me and make sense, I’d love to see these implemented!
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