—agree…map retention, savable maps, and the ability to set separate ‘red’ zones for various cleaning routines would be a big improvement…as well as manual control
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I’ve only done one whole house clean. It ran low and went to recharge. I was surprised when it left to finish at 60%. Maybe it does estimate charge needed.
Also, it might be nice if when cleaning the whole floor plan perhaps I could indicate some order… e.g. start on room 1 continue on room 4 finally do whatever order you please, such might help knowing that I will be occupying some room at some time and I will not like to be in the way or vice-versa. Just a thought.
My home has four separate rooms divided by doors on the map, yet Wyze considers them as one single room. I would really like to be able to make four separate rooms and have the bot do specific rooms on specific days.
I’ve had the “robot is disconnected” problem three times but couldn’t remember how I fixed it until today. I very slightly moved the vacuum to line it up perfectly to the charger. At most I moved it 1/4". The vac had been sitting there for 2 days with the solid white lights, then a few hours later there were no lights. In that short time it also lost 39% of it’s charge. Hope this helps.
- BAD: Battery depletes too fast and charges too slow.
I have seen numerous posts about how quiet it is. It is way louder on the quiet setting than my Eufy is. My wife and I both commented the first time we ran it how loud it was. Not sure I will be able to run it overnight while sleeping without waking us up.
Also, if it can’t vacuum the whole house in one pass it will go for a recharge and only fill up the battery to 60% and then do more. It’s already back on the charger for the 3rd time today. Let it fill up to near 100% or at least make this a setting so we can decide if we only need 60% to finish or 80% or 100%, whatever it needs.
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Couldn’t agree more. Tempted to return.
Change the suction strength setting. I have had numerous Roomba’s over the years, and the Wyze vacuum is considerably quieter and I have mine set on “standard”.
Did anyone have any shipping issues? My vacuum supposedly shipped 12/20 and was to arrive 12/24 but I still have not received it?
If the shipper has your box you should contact them for more information.
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This is my second day, and I realize I am an early user of the robotic vacuum cleaner, so I must be patient (I am using the “official” firmware, not the beta, but it feels like beta firmware).
Hopefully they will fix these “bugs” soon, the vacuum software definitely has issues. The mapping is bizarre, and it will do about 40% of a room, say it is done, with plenty of charge left, then fail to return to the dock (gets lost frequently). Mine never loses wifi, just gets confused. It has only been used on my first floor, and my house is not that big. It loves to find congested areas, overclean them, and attempt to get stuck. Loves to hug and re-clean wall corners and sides of walls (multiple times).
I think it would work great on a clean, empty basketball court (with about 10 returns to the charger).
That’s weird. I have three medium size rooms (den, dining, home office) and an entry hallway. There are doors between each room and lots of furniture, dog beds, table with chairs, etc. Mine starts mapping the room and objects to avoid then starts filling in the spaces in straight lines. I’ve never had it run out of battery or get lost (except when I moved the dock) and when it finishes all four spaces, it re-
docks and there is still battery time left. I can actually see on the map the basic shapes of the furniture, chair legs, dog beds, etc. I have doggie gates in two places. You can also see where the vac has trouble getting over a threshold and repeatedly tries until it finally makes it.
The shipper still says they are waiting on it.
One thing to watch out is rugs/carpets with dark areas, most vacbots use optical cliff sensors, they’ll see that as drop-off and will just go along the edges and won’t clean those areas. The only way I know to get around that is to disable the cliff sensors and use no-go zones/virtual walls to keep the bot away from where it might fall off.
I ended up deleting the map again. I then closed off all doors to the main lower floor area. It then ran and created a new map, and docked successfully. I got up early this morning and pressed clean again. It did the whole map (which 2 rooms were created) with no problems (814 sft in 1.8 hours, on a single charge). It returned to the dock successfully. I don’t know how to safely add the rest of the lower floor (my main bedroom downstairs is what I would love to add). Seems that every time I try to add this bedfroom, it goes awry, but the WIFI signal is good. I may just have to wait and buy one for the main bedroom, or maybe the firmware will improve. Thanks!
Finally got mine to connect and it’s finishing it’s setup now… Jezzzzz what a hassle
This vacuum is too loud. Even on quiet mode, the vacuum is significantly louder than my Ziglint D5. Alone the motors which drive the wheels are louder than the suction on my Ziglint. Being constantly at home during this pandemic, there is no good time to run it. I’m tempted to return it.
My Ziglint vacuum can also be used on any floor of the house and maps out the rooms each time. It realizes the charger is not reachable when it is not on the same floor and notifies you audibly that cleaning is complete and asks to return it to the charger. With the Wyze vacuum, you have to go in each time and delete the map- you think it would be able to work without having to do this.
The charger always moves around since the vacuum parks against it instead of on top of it. Of course you could tape the charger to the floor, but I’d like to be able to clean and mop around the charger as well.
The dustbin is hard to access and hard to open, I feel like I’m going to break the dustbin every time I open it- this is also much better on the Ziglint.
The Wyze vacuum only has one edge brush. This means one wheel is always driving through the dirty, not yet vacuumed part of the floor, the wheel then tracks the dirt around the rest of it’s path.
I also noticed that the Wyze vacuum cannot follow along a straight wall if the wall is not aligned with its parallel cleaning paths. Instead, it zigzags a bit back and fourth to try to follow it, but that means the edge brush keps coming away from the wall, leaving a wave pattern of unvacuumed dirt along the bottom edge of the wall.
The vacuum would be ok for $100, I am dissatisfied and think I’ll return it, the noise is just unbearable.
Good for you… There’s a shortage of them anyway
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I’ve found that mine is not as noisy as my Roomba 690, especially in Quiet mode.