Robovac - Mapping Issues Recommendation

mshart on 16/10/2023 - 09:11

Hi all,

Had an Ecovacs T20 Omni but ran into issues as I have quite a long skinny house. The only suitable location I have for the hub is at one end of the house, but the vacuum can only map in one direction/plane 30 metres. If I could put the hub in the centre of my house this would be no issue, however because I can't it means the vac wouldn't map the last 5 metres of my house. During initial mapping it would go into the area, recognise it as an area and clean it, but from then on that last 5 metres just showed as grey.

Wanting a recommendation for a robovac without this limitation - from what I've been able to find online the Roborock vacs suffer from the same mapping limitation, but can't find anything for other brands, such as Dreame.

Anyone in a similar situation and had any luck?

Electrical & Electronics Robotic Vacuum Cleaner

Comments

  • Marty156 on 16/10/2023 - 10:25

    Sounds like your wifi signal is too weak, try a wifi extender, or just move router higher/closer to centre of house if possible.

    • mshart on 17/10/2023 - 08:52

      Not wifi unfortunately, have 3 extenders throughout the house including one right about where it refuses to map, something to do with the way that Ecovacs do their mapping.

  • gmail92 on 16/10/2023 - 10:25

    Put it in the centre, manually clean up the last 5 metres of your house?

    • mshart on 17/10/2023 - 08:51

      No where suitable in the rest of the house to put the dock unfortunately!

  • highon2str on 16/10/2023 - 11:06

    Our house is nowhere near as long as yours so cannot comment specifically on your issue.

    The only mapping issue we have with our S7+ is that it seems to very intermittently push through curtains; the way we want it to. We have a curtain across a hallway (to regulate temperature) and maybe 1 in 10 cleans the robot pushes through it to clean the other side (which has been mapped). However, every time it pushes through (or if it is manually positioned past the curtain) it always finds it's way back to the dock when done, pushing through the curtain on the way back.

    On the occasion it decides it is emotionally ready to push through, it slows down to a crawl before touching the curtain, then pushes through cautiously with the curtain dragging over the top of the robot and lidar dome, then as it exits on the other side, it picks up speed and makes a run to wherever else it needs to go.

    Very peculiar behaviour and we wish we could make it push through curtains more reliably, it clearly has the capability to do it!

  • Ghost47 on 16/10/2023 - 12:55
    +2

    Can’t recommend a robot vacuum but one thing you can probably do is send this feedback to Ecovacs so that hopefully they will address this in their engineering department.

    They might already be receiving feedback about this but the more people that complain then hopefully it will become more of a priority.

    • mshart on 17/10/2023 - 08:53

      Yep good call, they've assured me they've 'forwarded it to the relevant department' but I suspect that was said just to make me go away. Fingers crossed they fix it up in future generations!

  • bdl on 16/10/2023 - 13:01

    Roborocks can run Valetudo :)

    • mshart on 17/10/2023 - 08:53

      Will have to look into it, could be the answer! Cheers

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