You can do whatever floor you want first. You take the robot & Dock to the new floor, tap the map layers button, click Add Map, and start quick mapping. The Vac does the rest. You can even do multiple maps of the same floor with rooms off limits or closed so you don’t have to worry about closing doors every time if you don’t want those rooms done.
Oh – you have to take the dock with it? You can’t just drop it in the middle of the room and push the start button?
I believe you only have to take the dock for initial mapping, and after that it should not need it. But I’m not sure what it will do after it’s done, it may just wander around looking for the dock
You only need dock to map into ally. After that you can drop in room and hit start. It will then be lost when trying to find dock and stop
Where it should be.
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Correct. The Dock is only required when initially mapping the floor. It will start a cleaning after that by just being placed anywhere on the floor. The Lidar will determine where it is within the map to come up with a cleaning strategy.
But, as was indicated, it will try like the dickens to find the charging station in that original mapped spot when it is done. It will finally stop with an error that it cannot find the dock. This is an issue if the robot can’t complete the floor on a single charge.
Will test on March 20 when the house will be empty. Will bring dock up and see what happens.
It runs for 24 minutes downstairs with the doc to do a fairly small space.
It had never occurred to me that there might not be enough charge to do the entire upstairs on a single charge. That will be fun to experiment with. Guessing it drives to dock, recharges, and continues the mapping.
Wonder if for larger single level houses if you can put in multiple docs to charge as it works its way from the front to the back of the house. By my estimate, it should be able to do 4 rooms on a single charge – this house is 4 rooms, a living room, and family room, a kitchen, 2 bathrooms, and a large sunroom. My guess it that it will do about half before needing to run home and charge.
Yes. If it runs low on charge while cleaning, it will use the remaining reserve to return to the dock for charging. If the dock isn’t there or it can’t find it, it can’t finish.
I used the quick mapping on a full charge, so I’m not sure what it would do if it ran low during that procedure.
Mine easily does the whole house - 3BR, LR, DR, K, Bath on a full charge (1.3 hrs \ 56% battery consumption). But, it does depend on your settings. My floors are all hardwood so I have it on low power.
The vacuum only recognizes one dock per floor so having several on the same floor wouldn’t be useful even if you could buy them separately.
Interesting – so you can buy another dock for another floor. I have 3 floors in one house – so maybe I need to buy another dock or two.
No. You cant. You misread my post.
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