eufy RoboVac LR30 Hybrid+ Robot Vacuum Cleaner with Mop
eufy RoboVac LR30 Hybrid+ Robot Vacuum Cleaner with Mop and Self Emptying Station, 60 Day Capacity, iPath Laser Navigation, 3,000Pa, Multi Floor Mapping, Advanced App Control, Works with Alexa
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| Dimensions: | 35 x 35 x 10 cm; 3.9 Kilograms |
| Model: | T2181 |
| Batteries Required: | Yes |
| Batteries Included: | 1 Lithium Ion batteries required. (included) |
| Dimensions: | 35 x 35 x 10 cm; 3.9 Kilograms |
My first robot hoover, took a plunge for black Friday deal. Since nobody helps me in the house, I got this little pal. My floors and rugs are so clean, every day! He needs some time to get familiar with his home and after that buzz around nicely, beautiful lines, gets full bin every time. For people who complain that there’s no remote included fir this robot – manual remote buttons are installed in eufy control app. App is simple and great. For this cheap robot I have no complaints at all. I’d love in the future to have self emptying robot, but for now I’m just delighted I can put my feet up in evening to watch film whole little pal does the floor for me and takes 5 min to empty his dust compartment. Not noisy, doesn’t bother my sensitive ears. Made a huge difference in my life. Thanks Eufy.
Again, the suction of great on this model, and leave lovely stripes on our carpets, just like a lawnmower on the grass. The only time it hasn’t given a fantadtic performance was when we sent him it with a full dust compartment. We empty him about once a week, and use him almost every day.
Usually we’ll ask Alexa to start him as we’re about to leave the house, and let him do his thing while we’re out. We still set the house alarm, and he doesn’t set it off.
Vacuum strength can be altered in the app, but we always have him set to max. I little louder, but worth it for the cleaning level. When he’s done or tired (low battery) he just takes himself back home to the charging station.
This was a fantastic purchase. If you’re in the market for your own Maurice you won’t be disappointed with this robot vacuum, we aren’t, and we’re well fussy!!
1 – cleans under the furniture, including the bed! Which will save me ever having to move heavy cupboards out and hoover behind.
2 – gets on with cleaning the floors while I do something else
3 – quite thorough at going over the whole room (quite clever programming), but if there’s a patch that needs an extra clean, you can use spot clean option
4 – alerts you if a problem, eg it’s stuck or needs charging
5 – picks up larger things like cat litter grit/cat food pellets
6 – good on hard floors and carpet
This was a starter ‘see how it goes’ product for me but it’s now one of those gadgets I don’t want to be without.
I’m slightly wishing I’d bought the one that mops as well and empties its own dust box, so might upgrade in future. It could do with an alert for when it’s full but that’s a minor point really.
Also do watch out when downloading the app as the app store has ‘fake’ Robot vacuum cleaner apps that come up above the Eufy one and try to charge you…make sure it is the Eufy one you download.
* The RoboVac docking station is much smaller than its competitors, and it fits under a set of cupboards in our dining room so the RoboVac G30 is completely out of sight when docked.
* On our floor plan (seven rooms over 95 sq.m. / 1,017 sq.ft.) the RoboVac G30’s typical daily run lasts around 95 minutes, on a mixture of hard floor (85%) and carpet. Vacuum strength is excellent and it adjusts itself to floor type.
* The RoboVac G30’s systemic navigation system is more logical and better suited to our extended bungalow’s large floor plan than the previous RoboVac 30C’s bump and turn navigation, and it’s far more satisfying to watch. It doesn’t come with the barrier strips the 30C came with, but it does know about stairs and avoids drops. Battery life of the RoboVac G30 is not quite as good as that of the 30C but unlike the 30C it remembers where it’s done so it heads home, recharges, and goes back for 5-10mins to finish off.
* For our floor area the RoboVac G30’s dust box is a little small in that it needs emptying after each daily run. The micropore/paper exhaust filter system is very effective.
* The Eufy app’s scheduling options are limited – I cannot see any way to launch the RoboVac G30 automatically more than once a day, but if desired this could be overcome readily with one or more Alexa timed routine(s), or at worst a manual start (either in app – no handheld remote control supplied – or by Alexa voice trigger).
* Alexa integration is useful, and we’ve set that up and used it to trigger or abandon cleans.
* didn’t see any mention of it in the ad blurb, but the RoboVac G30, like the 30C, has drop detection, so it can be taken upstairs and used to clean our bedrooms and landing without falling down the stairs.
*The RoboVac G30 copes well with all our rugs but one small rug with tassels. The tassels can catch on the wheels and if this happens the rug is dragged along for the ride. It handles all of our other rugs, even those fluffy ones in the bathroom, just fine.
* Our cat didn’t know what to make of RoboVac at first, but he usually ignores it. Sometimes he follows it around as though keeping an eye on it. Either way I t’s quiet enough that it doesn’t scare him.
* All in all, we love the convenience of the RoboVac G30 (or 30C). And it’s saving us time and money – we only have the manual vacuum out for the stairs now. Before this we’d have hoovered the entire house twice a week, so that’s a considerable saving in both time and electricity costs. According to our power meter plug it used less than 2.4kWh in October compared to probably 14-18kWh if we’d been hoovering manually. We were hesitant to try these things because they’re not cheap and we didn’t know if it would clean well but we can now say to anyone thinking of them, they’re terrific and we wouldn’t give ours up now.
I took a bit of a punt on this Robovac as it was on a pretty good deal. Checked out a few videos online and decided to go for it.
Glad I did!
I live in a house occupied by 4 people. 2 adults. 2 children. No pets.
Our 2 children are under 12 and therefore naturally make a mess… dropping crumbs, dirty shoes etc.
Every meal time I am tired of finishing the meal, tidying and washing up, to then find the floor needs vacuuming. So out comes the vacuum and 10 minutes later, I can finally sit down… to find that another room needs vacuuming…
It’s fantastic but not perfect…
Positives:
Starting with the positives, this device cleans a room for you. Giving you time to finish another job, have a well earned sit down, or sort the children out to then return to the room and have it relatively clean! brilliant!
You can set a schedule or start it from your phone. So it can start while you are out and you come home to a clean room. Excellent!
It requires some maintenance such as emptying the waste compartment but not much.
Negatives:
It doesn’t do well with edges. Especially on carpet where the carpet folds over against your skirting boards. You need a separate vac to get there.
It doesn’t do stairs. So you need a vac for them.
It does pickup or get stuck on things you don’t want to, and requires your attention, such as shoes laces. You then have to sit there for ten minutes trying to pick them out…
It does get confused with light. So if you have the sun shining through your window, and it casts shadows in your room, this will confuse the Robovac. As it things its an obstacle.
Standard setting is not powerful enough on a lower pile carpet. Put it on max for best results.
Overall:
I know i’ve given some negatives but all that is required is a little thought before setting Robovac off to clean. Such as wedging doors open/closed. Moving ALL items off the floor and under units/sofa. Closing curtains to stop shadows.
Overall, we are really happy with this. It gets under sofas that you normally can’t reach and therefore forget about, under TV units, and on max suction, its very close to a regular vacuum.
It’s fine with the top of stairs (we’ve done the panic test) and cleans right to the edge without falling down…
The app is great too. You can activate it with your voice if linked with google assist or Alexa and it will tell you the state of the brushes/sensors and if they require cleaning/replacing.
The other great thing with the app, is that it will notify you if the Robovac gets stuck, is picked up or needs assistance. Great if its picked something up that it shouldn’t or if the kids are playing with it…!!
How i would rate this device is that it’s great to keep the dirt/dust down but it won’t replace a regular vacuum. You will still need that for the edges/stairs etc. But the biggest plus point is saving you time. It does a general clean while you are at work or hanging the washing out and when you get back, you’ll be pleasantly surprised!
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I was new to this whole robo-vacuum game. I’m glad I did some fairly extensive research before deciding on Eufy and I’ll share my findings here. Eufy products seem to have the best suction, pound for pound, and, their 11S or 15C are winners in the least expensive ‘randomly bounce from wall to wall’ segment. Due to the sheer size of my mansion house, I opted for the G30 which has the same chassis and suction as the 15C but is one step above with some dynamic mapping software. There is an even more involved ‘laser/camera mapping’ segment but this costs quite a bit more again, and, I don’t want this level of intrusion/security risk- these robo-vacuums are all wifi-connected for scheduling, status reporting and remote control from anywhere on the planet.
I rejected the ‘built in mop’ segment as it sounds (from review vids) like more of a gimmick than a useful appliance.
The G30 is a great bit of kit. Simple instructions, easy to set up, quiet, comparatively low height for getting under furniture (Eufy might even be the lowest), still hasn’t got stuck or fallen anywhere, maps out a fairly detailed floorplan (I can see the asterisk legs of my swivel chair), has an intuitive mobile app interface, comes with some replacement brushes & filters (so long life seems to be expected), and most importantly, good results on my floors. The auto-suction level adjustment is audible and balances between power-use and different floor surfaces.
I’m not affiliated in any way other than being a first-time, paying customer. I recommend this as a very useful ‘fire and forget’ gadget that seems to be excellent value for money. Definitely more ‘R2D2’ than ‘T-101’.
It’s mapping is sketchy and if it get stuck in areas, rather than marking them with a red mark in the map and avoiding them, it will try to clean them again and get stuck. It will only go half way around a circular table one day and then go back, the next day it will navigate around it successfully, the day after it won’t even go to that area so I have no idea where it will clean. The bump technology to detect walls and edges starts fine; finds a wall, but halfway along decides not to map part of the wall as solid so there are big gaps in the outlines of the rooms which probably doesn’t help the mapping. It’s really disappointing as I read that it was meant to use Dynamic Navigation to improve its mapping every time it cleaned, but it really doesn’t seem to be the case, with rooms often part cleaned. In fact, I’d say it does exactly the same thing as my 5 year old robot vacuum that had no mapping ability at all.
It deals with wooden floors really well, medium loose pile rugs pretty well but gets stuck every so often however will alert you with its voice function and phone notification, but this could be improved by the vacuum remembering problem places and marking them with a red dot/marker so they could be avoided while cleaning.
Battery life is excellent, getting 124 minutes on one clean, and the ability to have 4 different type of suction, with BoostIQ dynamically changing the suction required for different floor types it encounters.
There was a Firmware update recently, one of the fixes was to stop it from getting stuck which helped a little more, but it still got stuck in roughly the same areas (on the rugs) and still didn’t mark the map areas where it did get stuck so it will blindly continue to try to clean problem areas.
Autohome charging is a little clumsy too, it just bumbles around bumping into furniture and walls until it manages to find its way home. It seems to not use the map because if it would follow the map it had created it would be back at the charger in seconds rather than minutes.
I am in contact with Eufy support about the what the Dynamic Mapping is mean to do over and above their earlier models and so far, from their responses, it seems almost nothing, it’s a gimmick rather than a navigation tool for the vacuum, the ability to see a map in the application.
There’s plenty to like about this vacuum, small, decent size dirt storage container, really quiet, great battery life, good app with the ability to spot clean and change the suction type, ability to look at the map, good power for the vacuum, and see where the device is, but don’t believe the Dynamic mapping makes it very smart, in fact I’d go so far as to say it’s almost useless.
Smart mapping was a big reason for my purchase hence only a 3 star review.
Update: the firmware update seems to have made the device much worse. It now won’t travel in a straight line, it goes across the room at a slight angle and maps room edges in the map incorrectly as a result. It now also always get stuck in the black sections of the multicoloured rugs we have, seemingly like the sensors don’t know where it is, and gives a device error 6, device is trapped or stuck message. Again I have reported this to Eufy support who have forwarded this information to their product people. Subsequently, I have amended my rating to two star because now I cannot rely on it not to get stuck when using a cleaning schedule, which is particularly frustrating when it gets stuck over and over again in the same place it got stuck in before.
Update 2: 5/08/20
This is the second attempt at an update as the first seemed to disappear.
I’ve been in constant discussion with Eufy, who have been absolutely first class support wise.
They’ve worked with me to try to get an acceptable resolution and I can say they’ve gone absolve and beyond what I expected.
The crux of the problem for me is the navigation and the issue of stopping on small, dark sections of a multicoloured rug.
The mapping, I don’t think there is anything Eufy can do with this model. The L70 has a far more comprehensive mapping capability, but is more expensive. However the cleaning on the G70 is just as good as the L70 on that front, and cleaning is excellent on both models. In summary, if your expecting an intelligent, customisable mapping experience from this model, then you’ll be disappointed, and maybe the L70 should be looked at.
The black section issue Eufy have given me a workaround to, if not perfect. By covering the sensors on the front and side of the device it will happily clean these rugs (picture shown of rug pattern) without issue. It no longer thinks it’s stuck and does a great job. However, this is only good if the device can be used in an environment where a drop is not possible. It would be great if Eufy could enable this ability in software and firmware rather than me covering the sensors in tape, and if it realised that if it got into that area it could retrace it’s steps to get back to a previously safe area.
Eufy have taken all my suggestions on board and are going to put them forward to the product teams, but I can’t reiterate enough how fantastic their support have been. Reminds me of how Amazon used to be a few years ago.
I am amending my review again, however I am going to clarify it by saying it gets an extra star just for the amazing support Eufy have given which should be taken into consideration when purchasing a product. 3 stars for the Product and the extra star for the support, whom I would give 5 stars alone if I could.