[Electronics-Talk] Rumba:

[Valiant8086]

In in my opinion, LiDAR guided robo vacs are better for blind people 
usually. If you can aford it, roborock S6 or something along that line 
might make you very happy, our roborock S6 sure is excellent  for us.
LiDAR doesn’t need lighting present in your house, so if you are sleeping 
or a blind person not bothering to have lights on you won’t be causing your 
robovac not to able to tell where it is. I pretty highly recommend against 
getting a basic dumb one, they take more work to run than just vacuuming on 
your own. Just look for whole home mapping. Roborocks pretty much all have 
that with the s series, and the s series from 360, but I don’t know any 
blind people who use a 360 so we don’t know how usable they are for us. 
roborocks have speech output, and the app isn’t too terribly useless. About 
the only thing you can’t do is edit the map, dividing into rooms and being 
able to set no go zones and such.

Instead, we just close doors. I was able to configure our schedule and 
whatnot on my own. I really like our roborock. We call it rocky. It sends 
alerts to the app when it gets stuck, needs something done such as sensor 
cleaning, or just when starting / stoqands pcheduled clean. You can read 
battery level, current clean time, progress on the current cleaning job, 
like 585 sq ft cleaned so far. when something is wrong, it repeats the 
spoken message a few times, making it easier to find it if you didn’t hear 
it the first time. Overall, well thought out, and prices are reasonable.

Roomba uses VSLAM, which is a camera pointed at the ceiling to navigate. it 
works, but poor lighting will mess it up, and it is not as immediately 
accurate as LiDAR Neato made the first famous LiDar guided robovac, and 
they still have some that don’t need wiFi at all, just go for one that is 
not called bot vac connected, but look out for touch screens, they do have 
one.  360 are   cheapest by far so if you want to take a chance in term of 
accessibility, that is your option.

Amazon used to sell old used roomba 980's so you can try that if you want 
top of the line roomba for pocket change, about 150 buck for a machine that 
originally sold for about $900 give or take


On December 19, 2021 3:00:58 PM wmodnl wmodnl via Electronics-Talk 
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> Thanks everyone for feedback… Have a great Sunday.
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>> On Dec 19, 2021, at 14:25, Dennis Miller via Electronics-Talk 
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I agree!  I have had a Roomba for a little over a year and am very happy
>> with it.  The app is easy to use and I don't have a problem with her getting
>> stuck on chair legs.  She does a fantastic job of getting into corners and
>> getting under things.
>> 
>> The more you use it the better she gets to know your house.
>> Dennis
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of joseph hudson via Electronics-Talk
>> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2021 1:14 PM
>> To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
>> Cc: joseph hudson
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Rumba:
>> 
>> The Roomba 980 works well. And is able to get into corners and what not.
>> Occasionally she will get stuck under things. But once you get to know what
>> she gets stuck under and you get it moved properly, it's a great device. And
>> as far as the app, it's a great deal. I'm able to tell when she needs
>> cleaned and if I want to I can set her on a schedule.
>> 
>>>> On Dec 19, 2021, at 8:28 AM, wmodnl wmodnl via Electronics-Talk
>>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Anyone have one of these even the basic one,  does anyone have tips or for
>> using mobile application?
>>> Thanks
>>> 
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