iRobot J7 J7+ FULL Floor Plan Test 10 Cables and 2 Piles of Poop + How's Battery Life? Robot Vacuum
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Putting the J7+ Through my full floor plan. How long will it take to complete and will it avoid 10 charging cables and 2 piles of fake dog poop? Get it here on Amazon!
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I tried testing the poop avoidance, I took 3 rather large dumps strategically throughout my living room and it avoided it! So anyone wondering, it will avoid human feces without issue
Try eating Taco Bell first and then retest 😂
It didn't avoid, and a mopping feature is desperately needed! @@AdamsReviews
The J7 does my entire house on one charge.
I’m impressed with mine.I’ve had several Roombas.
I have a Husky, and this thing can actually keep up with that shedding dog.
I’ve never had one that could do that.
The more it runs the better it cleans. It's kind of pointless that this reviewer says the battery is disappointing while the robot is still running to map the apartment. Besides I don't care if it takes a lot of time or it has to go back and recharge. The important thing is that it cleans well and runs well around the house.
Are you happy with how it cleans hard floors from hair and small debris?
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Yes I think it’s the best thing since sliced bread.
I have a Husky, he sheds enough hair to be three dogs.
The J7 handles it no problem.
I run it every other day.
Once every 5 or 6 cycles I pull the debris hopper and hepa filter out and clean it, plus I remove the rollovers to remove hair.
It takes literally 2 minutes.
Once it mapped out my house, it cleans my 1450:sq ft house without recharging.
My house is 50%carpet
@@rickdavid1795 Thank you very much for answering me, it's a huge expense so it's reassuring to know people are happy with it. I think I'll just pull the trigger and buy it for this Christmas
I'm an new owner of a j7+. I had issues out of the box when I tried to simultaneously clean and create a floor plan. It had to recharge before completion and never properly created a floor plan after 4 tries. (Yes, I am patient). After a full overnight charge, I sent it out to just do a mapping job. Got the correct plan after 2 mapping only jobs, which took roughly 1hr 15min each for ~580sf that has a lot of furniture with legs and wall openings without recharging. The map and clean function didn't work for me fresh out of the box but works well now.
@@hhudson9492
I had no issues like that.
But I have a small house.
The i7+ I just upgraded to the roborock s7+ had a small battery too. I had the i7 for 3 years and it wasn't able to clean my 1000 square foot house without going back to charge. That was unacceptable, I'm not going to buy a new battery every 3 years. The roborock s7 cleans my whole house in 65 mins! With over half battery remaining. So glad I made the change! Thanks for the awesome videos with reviews and comparisons!
I've found the battery issue is only a real issue when mapping. It spends a LOT of time banging around objects like table legs trying to build a map. After the map is created you can create exclusion zones around tough spaces and the robot will avoid them. I set up strategic exclusion zones in my house and my J7+ will usually do 2000 square feet of my house in about 2 hours, with one recharge. As it is, we rarely tell it to do whole house cleaning. Instead we assign high traffic zones like Kitchen, Living Room, Hallways, and our Foyer, and it can hammer those out in about 40 minutes on one charge.
I have had my iRobot J7+ for a couple of weeks. It is very good at object avoidance and cleans well. However I agree that the battery is sub-par. My J7+ will only clean for about an hour and a half before having to return to the charging base to recharge. I will say however that it has to clean in my dining room and kitchen with eating area and navigate around a lot of table and chair legs. It does this very well and, as I use it more and more, doesn't ram anything. It has to redirect itself a lot to get through this obstacle course and this uses a lot of battery power! I also have 3 cats and a lot of area rugs of different types. While it doesn't get up all the hair, it does a very acceptable job. If you have an open floor plan, few rugs and no pets, I am sure the J7+ would zip around and finish its cleaning in a much shorter time and possibly with only one charge. All in all, I am very pleased with my J7+ and will keep it.
Looking forward for another Shark test. They cannot be worse than old models anyway.
The battery issue is a deal breaker. Was thinking about this to have a dedicated vacuum for the 2nd floor.
My j7+ went for a full 90 minutes on its first run on a single charge with no map. Also it’s the same battery as the i7 anyway, so idk why people are saying they’re disappointed lol. My floor plan is 1,100sqft
Carpet for hard floor? On carpet I get worse battery with s9 but on hard floors it’s great. Carpet the motor ramps up to max on hard floor it’s low
@@tannersloan6725 it definitely was more hardwood than carpet, so yeah all carpet could easily change that
@@CodeXana I can can about 45-50 minutes on a charge for carpet room and for a mix of hard flooring and some rugs (vacuum ramps up on rugs) I get over an hour of run time, I run out of mixed flooring and it runs back to base
Because its a $850 robot that comes with a 2110mah battery. I bought a lidar based robot with 5200mah battery for under $200.
@@AdamsReviews so did I, an Ecovacs Deebot Ozmo 950, and that vacuum was awful
I only watched unboxing so far but looks like irobot should have included display on the bin that monitored the bag to let you know how full it was getting, even uprights have that.
I agree about the battery. This is what is holding roomba back.
I wish we could watch the robot real time on the app. You could on the Wyze and I like that.
I must be one of the lucky ones, I got a Shark IQ off of Woot 2 weeks ago and so far it has been awesome granted all my floors are laminate but on the first run it was able to map out my main floor pretty good, 4 rooms 600 square feet. It is on the slow side it takes around 100 minutes to finish I also set it to empty every 30 minutes as I have two dogs and two cats. At the end of the day I am extremely happy so far. My house is a quad level and I now am planning to get a robot for each floor so maybe the next one I will get a different model and who knows maybe this is bad and I haven't seen a good one to compare? Can you suggest what next one I should get for the next floor? basically same layout but a few area rugs also. Btw great videos...
I bought one a month ago haven't had any issues myself.
The ones I tested were a long time ago. I am sure they made some improvements.
Bought one on woot too. Totally blown away with the job it has done so far. Mapped after one run on eco. Doing a great job on my all hardwood floors. No errors and hit all my areas. Longevity will be crucial, but so far so good.
I have a J7 sitting in its box waiting for its debut when I move into a new house in the near future. I'll put the shark in the upstairs.
$169 on woot for a refurbished is looking like a steal if this holds. Self emptying to boot....
Thanks, that is exactly the kind of testing / review i wanted to see
Maybe it took so long because you did a map and clean. When you do a map the motor doesn't run so uses less power. So just doing map first. Then once it's done then try the cleaning. 😀
I will run it again now that there is a map. I know it will be faster. Hopefully not need to charge twice.
Adam is your suction area 1900 Sq.ft or is it info from 2 days of suction?
Man I’ve had so many shark robots I can’t even bring myself to trying another no matter how good it is. Also sad about that small battery but at least my floor plan is pretty small so it should still be able to knock out my downstairs
I couldn't agree with you more on the battery issue. I recently got a different table and chairs in my dining room, and for some reason it now takes my Roomba J7 longer to clean that room, I use the deep clean setting so it makes two passes over everything and it can no longer do this without having to go back for a recharge. Very disappointing, with all of my other bots I can send them out twice and they will complete it and some of them even still have some battery life left. I don't have pets so don't need the poop avoidance, between the short battery life and low suction power on this robot, and the fact that the navigation just isn't as good as the lidar bots, I'm starting to regret buying it, I will not even consider buying any new Roomba bots unless Irobot increases the cleaning power like they did with the S9 and includes at least a 5200 MAH battery. I think other companies, especially Roborock have completely gotten ahead of Irobot.
I have had my j7+ for two months now. I am really disappointed about the battery life as well, and also how loud it is when the it goes back to empty the bin.
Does this vacuum require a subscription to run as advertised? Seems more and more greed from companies requiring subscriptions, such as cars requiring a subscription to remote start or heated seats.
How does it work on terracotta Floors it is not like a straight even floor?
This was awesome Adam!
Any links to a j8 battery yet? As then we can have the battery life in the j7
I had been wanting the j7 even tho we don't have enough
How do you make it stay connected? Mine has full strength 2.4 GHz wifi signal and will only connect after started manually. Support says will reply in a day, but won't. Thanks.
The Shark AI is probably gonna be crappy because it has the tiny, crappy dirt bin. I can’t wait for the Self-Emptying test!
Got it today!
@@AdamsReviews HORRAY! I hope you get that video up as soon as possible. Can't wait!
Great video Adam! The battery is a disappointment especially for the cost and not being able to mop. I hope other robot vacuums can improve on object recognition.
Take care.
I'm looking for a robot and am deciding between this,the irobot S9+, and the roborock S7+. My apartment is about 900 Sq ft but i have 2 Aussie shepherds that shed a ton, which one would you recommend?
I have a Husky, and my Roomba J7 handles his shedding with no problem.
My house is 1250 sq ft
Does the J7+ still go under couches and chairs that a lidar robot would not go under?
Yes it does!
How large is your floor plan. That kind of matters in understanding what is a long time and not.
I received my J7+ yesterday and wasn’t able to connect to the internet for some reason, probably because my router is too far. So I decided to give it a run without connection and while it do a good job cleaning, it didn’t avoid obstacles … I tested mine with a cable and it just ran over it … Even got stuck on a lamp cable in the corner … Do you know if the sensors to avoid obstacles are internet based?
You have to turn it on with the app I believe. So I would try again to connect.
Maybe check your Wi-Fi frequency. The J7 may only support 2.4g and not 5g Wi-Fi only. I tried to check on the website but iRobots website has very little information and didn’t say. I tFind their website to be poor and doesn’t reflect the quality or experience of their robots
My irobot runs on cables. What does it take to see cables and dog poop? He doesn't mark any boxes on the map. Does not send photos. Is it defective?
Great Video, would love to see a compare review on iRobot j7 and s9
Coming soon!
I just don't really understand why people complain so much about a robot taking longer to vacuum then other robots when does it really matter that much because it's not like you or the one that's half team to do the vacuuming and the vacuum or using has terrible battery life and it's not like you have to stand around waiting for it to finish vacuuming so what does it mean really in the grand scheme of things matter how good of a battery life that has. That part just never made very much sense.
because i don t want to listen to a vacuum going off 24/7 while trying to watch tv or tug one out
I would say the objects avoidance seems to lack of precisions it’s over sensitive. Robot could get closer to the objet to avoid. It’s just like the imprecisions of the clean and no go zones. But it’s a nice effort.
I think they will address that soon in some updates.
My 3 month old S9+ can vacuum all my main floor tile (654 sq ft of cleaning area) in 54 minutes, 1 charge. However, when it vacuums my carpeted family room 234 sq ft of cleaning area it take 2 hours 4 minutes of vacuuming and 2 hours and 40 minutes of additional charging. Starts at 100% and returns to charge 2 more times just to clean 1 carpeted room. Wide open room with nothing in the middle of room. So disappointing not just about the time, but also has to causing shortened life. Also the side brush was distroyed by the carpet in less than a month. If you have all tile or hardwood great. But if you have carpet...forget it.
Link to follow up j7 video?
Hopefully they will have a better battery for this in the future.
what future? future is the J7 and they screwed that part, the battery has been insufficient for several years already
Adam can you please bring back the iLife a10 and do you still have your shark ion
❤
I just saw a post on Reddit that the vacuum will avoid poop when it's vacuuming but plow right through it if it's in the pathway back to the charging station. Can you test this out to see if it's true? Does it only avoid poop when it's vacuuming and not see it if it's in the path back to the charging station?
Hmm..thats a good test...I will try and set it up.
Umm .. LMAO 5.5 hours for 1,900 SqFt. So our house days or (many) of these. Thank God I'm only looking at two rooms. Yeah they should offer up beefed up battery pack option. Frankly I wanted the S9+ until I realized it sucked. Any ETA on a "S10+" "D" shape replacement to the S9??
No info at all....Prob be like a J9+
Just purchased…. May be returning with battery. You recommend robo rock? I have been looking at them.
Yes this irobot is a good robot. If you house is larger the roborock will get it done quicker.
Does it show pictures with the object on the map? Why does it show 10 items when there was 10 cables and 2 dog poops. Should they be 12 objects on the map?
If you look at the map you can see in a couple spots where it drove around something but did not mark the map. I have not had it show me yet.
If I move the base (let’s say once/twice a month) to the basement. Will it know it’s a different room or would I need to remap every time? And would I need to remap my main floor after? I know… trying to be greedy and asking it to do my whole house :-). Also bonus question: “wireless” does it mean you can start a cycle from anywhere or do I need to have my iPhone on premises? Thanks a lot
Do not move the base. Move the bot downstairs and it will map a new floor in addition to the floor you already have mapped. Only downside is you need to move the thing to and from the original floor.
@@MHoWsc Thanks Anne, this is interesting. Anything special I need to do for it to know it’s in different room? Or will it map the new room automatically?
How does the roborock you mentioned compare to this in suction and performance(besides battery)? Would you recommend the Roborock instead?
if you have all or a lot of carpets go with Roomba, else RR
@@xeon2k8 I don’t have carpet but I do have area rugs and 2 dogs that shed like crazy crazy crazy! Also 2600 sq ft
@@goldenshadow7691 hmm well if the rugs are always full of pet hair then probably would go with iRobot, else RR.
As I said before. Aftermarket batteries with x3 the capacity are under 30bucks.
so you are supposed to void you warranty on day 1 on a 850 dol vacuum?
they usually have bad reviews and stop working within a few months. or just stop being recognized by the machine. if you know of one that is actually reliable, id love to know
I wonder if it would need to charge as much if it was mostly hardwood floors and tile? The area I need it to clean is 90% hard floors and the other 10% is area rugs. It’s only cleaning my main open spaces and not bedrooms all on the main floor and needs to clean 1,700sf. If it does good, I need one more for the basement which is more like 70% hard surface with the rest area rugs. I have my hands on the j7+, but haven’t opened it yet. Waiting on a few more reviews. If I were to get a different model, do you recommend anything you trust enough with dog poop and cables? It’ll be rare that I have to worry about dog poop, but I own 3 dogs and some times accidents happen. I’m all in on the j7+ with Best Buy warranty for just under $1,100.00. So that’s about my budget.
It will be much faster on hard floors. My carpet is pretty thick too.
@@AdamsReviews thanks.
Yeah very bad battery result... House doesn't sound really big and with a new battery this is a shame.
i hate theese irobots have a small battery. only reason i am using a roborock instead of an irobot.
What’s the surface you have?
Does the app identify what the objects it avoids are like cable, poop,shoe,book ect. Does tha camera take pictures if it reads code on bin must be capable of photos. Would be helpful if it did
It takes pics and ask if it’s a permanent or temporary object. I’m surprise he didn’t show that part
@@andrewj6611 that is intresting but does it id it. A cable can change location but be permanent like power cords. For the time irobot took bringing a new robot to market seams like its lacking in AI department. Battery life is one issue but is it battery charge or app setting its short run time. Why doesn't it photo graph the rooms and hold it in memory so can tell when new objects appear or moved. Are the rollers still reversible to spit out objects or just error out.
Time for the real test… Real poop in house 🤢not just the garage
Lol no thanks.
If i have a split level house with a couple of steps between levels how do I stop the J7+ from going down the stairs on the mapping run, will it detect the drop?
The J7+ has multiple drop sensors so it should detect the change.
Yes it will detect it and avoid the stairs. works great
Have you looked at the bigger batteries you can get on aliexpress?
A company is supposed to be sending me one to try.
lets see how this one manages high thresholds between rooms
do you think this would be upgrade from the RRs5
Yes for sure. Just having the self empty bin will be awesome.
$850 is a bargain. Will be about $2k in Australia. iRobot forces all product to go through a 3rd party distributor here. They of course put a hefty margin on it. The i7 is $1700 the s9 is $2900. It’s $116 just for a replenishment kit. Bit of a joke really. Can purchase from US, have it shipped, the currency converted and still pay half the local cost. However, iRobot won’t give warranty or support. They instead force generating sales for a good for nothing middleman licensing their name.
Yea that's crazy expensive....However iRobots are made really well so I wouldn't worry too much on warranty,.
how is the battery life vs the S9?
Not very good especially on max suction but it will go back and recharge and then go back out on its own.
1900sq ft floorplan though....
Not impressed with the battery. This is a no buy for me. Spending that kind of money and a battery that's questionable makes no sense to me.
ITS CONTROLLED BY AI NO APP
Do s9 vs this
Will do.
If you are buying this to avoid poop, you probably are running this while you are at work. Battery life shouldn't matter.
dog poops while at home, poop everywhere, robot stuck in charge station from poop barrier please send another robot to help
I would do a few rooms every day and not my entire house
This would be great for you then.