Update: poor app and poor roomba – iRobot Home Review

My updated app review is here and My previous review is below that. Update. I would review the app as a zero star and the same goes for the roomba at least with the update or what ever change was made recently. Recently the roomba and maps stopped working. For example yesterday and today I have tried 5 times to use my roomba and because of the poor app it has cancelled my run. Why? It looks like the maps change and so the roomba will just go into a wall 20 times and miss the doorway and then quick. The roomba does not any longer recognize rooms and zones, so it is not able to vacuum where it is needed and because it forgot where walls and doors are it can’t get to wear you need it. Want to vacuum a bedroom, well ask it to vacuum the kitchen and maybe it will randomly find its way. Want it to vacuum the family room, ask it to run the hallway and hope it gets lost in the right room. Nothing works. This is the best advertisement for buying a Dyson. A Dyson always vacuums where you want it and actually cleans your house. I hope with time the app folks can stop messing with success and get the app and roomba to stop being an expensive paperweight. I guess for the 50th time it is time to do a mapping run and hope it actually works. The app is solid and is certainly a requirement for effective use of your roomba. It works and I use it all the time. For the most part it works very well. So I give it 5 stars for need and effective use of the roomba. My complaint or reasons I gave it 3 overall is as follows. Probably 80% of the time when you open the app it says not connected. I have to force quit and then reopen and it works fine. This is minor and doesn’t change my feelings for the overall effectiveness of the app. Next the roomba constant seems to change the floor plan and I had to delete my map and start over. This has happened more than once. By changing floor plans I mean it changes the shapes of rooms and eliminated door entances so you could not clean rooms. Again not horrible, as I just did a mapping run and started over. I guess there are just some glitches that do seem to affect the use of the roomba. Also the company can’t figure out if customers serve is important or not. I like my roomba and have 2, and would probably get another one if needed, but I can’t say I wouldn’t try another brand.
Review by Havin'Fun-in-Louisiana on iRobot Home.