Ecovacs Deebot T8 AIVI

The key drawback is that i wish it cleaned better. The robot does a good job, sweeping up surface dust, but the brush roll is kind of wimpy and the va...

So you don't have to buy filters for the bin and it's a much cleaner way to dispose of the debris. All in all, i love my t8 ai vi, robot vacuum and wi...

**App Scheduling / Sequencing**: *Winner Ecovacs*. The EV was easier to create custom schedules and select the room sequence.

I had a Xiaomi Mijia robotic vacuum (precursor to the roborock) and it SUCKED, kept throwing the "main brush blocked" error every time it touched even medium-low pile carpet. After getting sick of dealing with it, I threw it out and and bought an Ecovacs Deebot with auto-cleaning base and obstacle avoidance. I've had the ecovacs for about a week now, and I've decided I'm going to return it, because, while it's way better than the Xiaomi one and does a great job cleaning, it still gets stuck all the damn time, and I can't "set and forget it" while I'm at work, which defeats the entire purpose of having it. The vacuum I think I want is the roborock T7 Pro, but that seems to be only available in china, and it only works with the Mi Home app, which I had to use for the Xiaomi and it was an awful awful app.

Once it got stuck, but that was because I hadn’t attached the dust bag properly, it wasn't clear to me I had to clean the inner fan. **Mop:** ⅕. Don’t get this for the mop. I sort of cleans but really the mop attachment is barely effective and it wasn’t a good confidence builder for me to even go buy the dedicated mop attachment.

My dogs make my floors so gross, so I shelled out for an Ecovacs T8 and holy shit that vacuum is worth the money (expensive though). I run it every day, and got the auto empty station as well so I really don't need to touch it at all. It also has a mop so I run it with the mop pad once a week and as needed. My floors are no longer gross.