Roborock 4+

I felt compelled to write a review because of all the low reviews by people that don’t understand that this app only works with the newer generation S4, S5 Max, and S6. The original S5 is not supported by this app. For older hardware you need to use the Mi Home app. I can understand that owners of older hardware want the new app to to support their robot, but they plainly state that the app only supports these robots so users with incompatible hardware blasting it seems unfair. I do think Roborock should find a way to get all the robots under one app and just limit them to their capabilities within it for simplicity. I can say that for my supported hardware (S5 Max), this app works great. The mapping is great, no go and no mop zones work flawlessly. I was able to draw a box in the app and zone clean it. Google Home integration works, though I had a couple days of outage. I was able to create rooms out my open floor plan and have it clean specific rooms. The app also notifies you when the robot has completed cleaning. Really happy with both the robot and the app. It’s unfortunate that the ratings are so low. Having a good app was really important to me as I was researching what robot vacuum to buy and if I hadn’t taken the time to read the reviews and understand they were almost all disgruntled customers with unsupported hardware I might have missed out on buying one that I’m super happy with.

The Roborock S7 is Sheraton robotic product, consisting of a vacuum and a mopping system combined into one device. The Roborock App allows for dividing an automatically generated map of a single or multilevel home into rooms for selective cleaning. This is a must if a home is large enough to require several battery charges to clean all areas. A section for scheduling allows selection of one or more rooms (or locations) to be cleaned in a group. A great feature is a live map which shows the route that the robot follows, making it easy to monitor the cleaning performance. Likewise, the ability to designate “invisible walls,” “no-go” areas, and the location of rugs and mats greatly customized the functions of the robot. The program allows for great control of the robot. Areas that could be improved: editing the map into different rooms can be somewhat challenging, but it is accomplished by your persistence. You might run into a limitation in the number of rooms permitted, but consolidation of two or more rooms into one area will work around this easily. Lastly, an area can be designated for spot-cleaning, instead of having to clean an entire room. All in all, the Roborock App is a worthy part of a very good robotic vaccuum and mopping product, and I highly recommend it.

I’m so obsessed, I’ve attempted to convince everyone I meet to buy one. Talking about dogs? Houses? Food? Sickly grandma? The weather? Work? I don’t care what the conversation is, I’m gonna somehow try to convince you the Roborock will help you with it plus some more. If I could afford it, I’d hand them out as Christmas stocking stuffers. In fact, every time it goes on sale, I send the link to people to try and convince them to buy one. Although I’m extremely disappointed Black Friday didn’t make me want to fight someone for one, I am still happy with my purchase. I am convinced if this thing could go up and down the stairs, it would be the ultimate floor cleaning weapon that would also scare all burglars as I haunt them from my tiny robot vacuum.

I regret nothing about my purchase. You should get one. Seriously. I take a nap and my floors are clean. Does a better job than my husband even if it doesn’t get the corners.

(Don’t forget the specific brand cleaner. It’ll void your warranty if you use any others).