Anyone have any experience with this one?
I’ve been buying robot vacuums for what seems like an eternity from Woot (shoutouts old Wooters where Roombas and mp3 players were the meme) and always have good results, and this one has been on my radar for a while for both being Shark and self-emptying. I’ll probably make the jump anyways but I know it’s been on Woot a bunch so curious if anyone here has any experience getting one here.
Is this the RV1001AE or RV100AE? The pictures or.the model# are wrong
I got it a month and a half ago. I really like it so far. I have a cat and a yellow lab. I have had to clean out the rollers a couple times getting clogged with fur, but that was easy to do. For me, it’s absolutely worrh it. I run it daily and it usually has to empty to the base halfway through cleaning.
Awesome thanks! I think I’ll make the jump on this one.
I expect to pull fur or stray carpet fibers from the rollers lmao. I don’t think we’ll ever get past that point.
I bought one of these when it was on sale the other day. Love it. The only problem is that smaill objects like dog food jams the brush. I have to go though the house and make sure things like that are picked up. That said it works great
Does this model let me schedule different rooms on different days? For example:
Kitchen - Every day
Living room - Mom, We’d, Fri
I bought this same one (at least I think it is the same model number) back in August of last year to replace my Roomba that wasn’t charging correctly anymore. I have had more issues with this robot than the Roomba due to it getting stuck on things. However when it works and doesn’t get stuck, it is great. It is relatively quiet except for the vacuum on the dock, which only runs for 10s when the robot docks. On the map you can define rooms and tell it where to clean if you need it to do an off schedule cleaning. You can also define no go zones for areas that you don’t want it to clean. For the scheduling, at this time you can’t select specific rooms to clean. We have a dog that constantly sheds, 2 cats, and a bird that likes to throw his food out of his cage, having this run M-F keeps up with the mess and we only tell it to clean the bird’s area on weekends if needed.
I’ve bought several shark robots, two dumb, two smart. These smart vacs are very good and once they get mapped they clean pretty voraciously and over time youll find you never really need to vacuum.
Mine clean every day m-f, they return to the dock, empty, then go back to where they left off. Most common fault is something large that gets caught in the port on the back of the vac…a twig or a bit of dog toy.
The issue with these vacs is the drive wheels. Buy the extended warranty! The tabs that hold the suspension springs break. They cannot be repaired and you cannot buy just the frames, you have to buy the entire drive wheel and they’re about 50 bucks each.
Shark actually sent me a replacement body outside of the limited woot warranty period. They are well aware of the suspension problem.
No, it doesn’t. You can set a schedule but not different rooms for different days. Once it learns your house, you can set boundaries. Or you can use boundary strips to block off certain areas.
This is the RV1001AE (which means it comes WITH the self-cleaning base).
I got one of these from Costco a while ago … it’s a great little vacuum, but the “mapping” function doesn’t work at all. It’s been working every day for a couple weeks now, and still hasn’t created a workable map yet. So I can’t tell it to go to specific rooms.
The one I got off woot last year (refurb) didn’t work out of the box, it would go about 6 inches to a foot and stop and beep. Reset it, and do the same thing over and over. It was also missing the replacement brushes. Woot did take it back though.
I do. I got the wife one of these before Christmas 2021 from Bed/Bath/Beyond.
Some backstory: I’ve had 3 versions of Neato’s (last device was the D80)
Currently I have a DeeBot in my basement (all carpet)
Debot N8 Pr+ on the 1st floor (all hardwood, some area rugs)
Shark IQ on my 2nd floor (all carpet, tile in bathrooms but I don’t let it in there (you will see why later)
Ok. So, upfront, I wouldn’t give you $100 for a Shark IQ (brand new). The app is ok, but the mapping by the unit has to be a bad joke that some programmer pushed out on it’s machines before he was laid off. I mean, it’s pretty much worthless IMO. As compared the even the first-generation Deebots. It’s on the 2nd floor for its own protection (and my furniture. It rubs and bangs into everything before it realizes there’s something there. I had to admit it, my 2nd gen iRobot Scooba can navigate better.
So, w/o hyping the Deebott or even the cleaning power of the Neato, here’s what I’ve found from using the Shark.
- It takes many times to even get a usable map and even then, it falls short. I have an 18ft ceiling in my great room. Maybe it just has a hard time with the height?
- There is no pre-run/mapping ability. You let it run around, bumping into everything trying to map. After about 10+ times, you might get some kind of map to “accept” but it still does not resemble anything recognizable so good luck telling it to clean a room.
- I won’t even explain why the mag strips are so yesterday.
- It SCOOTS around the furniture which over time, leaves rub marks (even on the hardwood floor, that’s why it got moved to the carpet area.
- I have two cats. It required a manual dumping/cleaning every couple of weeks (the cat hair didn’t get sucked out upon auto-empty)
- Had/has a hard time finding the docking station at times and has run out of power while spending an hour trying.
- Support. Took them a week to get back to me about the app not working on an Android 9 phone. Had to set up the vac using a tablet and android 11. My A9 seen the device as an intruder and would not allow a connection.
The one good thing I can say about it is, it doesn’t use bags. Deebot does but with two cats and it’s covering around 1800 sq ft on the 1st floor in the areas I’ve set it to vacuum, changing out a bag every 45 days isn’t bad. So, at the end of the day, the Deeboot, though more expensive, wins hands down in every area. The app, settings, and features are well worth the costs I paid. But because it uses both types of navigation, it avoids cat puke, cat toys (even small jaw-breaker-sized foam balls) and pic’s up everything. The mopping isn’t as good as my iRobot but it’s acceptable.
I’m not at all happy with the shark but will run it till it’s dead. It’s restricted to the 2nd-floor catwalk area and is allowed in the bedrooms from time to time. I don’t let it go into the bathrooms because it keeps getting stuck on the smaller area rugs and tries to push/bunch them up from time to time. It has no problem crying about being picked up while it’s working. But god forbid it alerts you that it’s either stuck or has encountered an error. No, I’ve not tried to update anything since I got it in Dec 2021. I rather just leave it alone and let it vac the 2nd floor once a week. Bottom line. I would dnot recommend this unit for any SERIOUS cleaning needs.
@cassandraw3 is correct that this is not built in functionality BUT it is my understanding you can do this through the Alexa app. I am not, currently but I am using the Alexa to schedule more than 1 cleaning
So this was my last post
I’ve been beyond happy with this purchase. I’m trying to talk myself out of a second.
I’ve heard the complaints about the mapping and it has not been my experience. I am using it mostly in an open floor plan area but there is a bathroom and a mudroom and the kitchen are all mapped correctly as well as mapping around big furniture very well.
I’ve actually had to remap twice because if furniture arrangements and have gotten an accurate map within 2 to 3 sessions every time BUT do NOT confirm the map until you are happy with it. It makes it sound like it will keep improving even though you’ve confirmed but I don’t think it does.
I see enough issues about the mapping that I believe it’s a real problem but I’m not sure where the difference comes in for me.
I’m holding off on the second one but just barely!
I have purchased 2 shark self-emptiers from the Az mothership new at about half price. I am unsure of the relationship of those to these because Shark appears to string a bunch of numbers together at random with to rhyme or reason and makes it difficult to compare. The picture and the numbers i have are different. That said:
I am not unhappy with the purchase. The first one runs on a hardwood floor mostly in less used rooms and does pretty well. The second is upstairs on carpet and has issues with the brush getting filled with long human hair and carpet fibers. Cat hair doesn’t seem to be a problem. I do a thorough cleaning of each device and base monthly (wash filters, clean the brush if i haven’t just had to). I dump their bins weekly.
The mapping could be better. The one on carpet struggles especially returning home sometimes. It has gotten better now that i have created the specified clear zone around the dock, but before, yes it would get lost and have to be carried back, sometimes dead.
More than once, the app lost any idea of where the home should be on the map. The first-time, I cleared the map and had it rebuild it. The second time, it fixed itself after a day. This sort of thing is annoying.
It also gets confused if it runs parallel to the edge of top step… it says its cliff sensor is stuck.
In App product registration never seemed to work, either.
I bought this and it worked beautifully. It helped me keep my house extra clean because it forced me to pick up stuff off the ground, tuck in my shoelaces, hide cords better, trim loose threads on rugs.
I loved it.
Until it was stolen from my porch after a mattress delivery truck showed up when it was cleaning and got under our feet. One of them solved it by putting it out on the porch. I was too busy putting new sheets on it and getting back to work. The power was out and security cameras weren’t on.
I have to purchase it again and then I’ll have an extra best station.