@@j_356_5 Its not as easy as you think it might be. Yeah adding a section in the app would be really simple but I am sure flashing all the Roombas out there wouldnt be. You have to know if there is no option defined in the code of the microprocessor itself than it requires a reflash. And a reflash can only be done it you take the chip out.
It can get included in the firmware update. The problem is the sensors are a shit design and hence why vacuums like the 980 which were seriously expensive are now discontinued and new ones like the i7 an do black carpet. They just didnt want to deal with liability of them falling.
@@j_356_5 Now your gonna tell me a bloody vacuum cleaner gets firmware updates? Does it also have WiFi or some shit? Lol. I am really curios as I do t have anything like this at home but its hard for me to belive that a vacuum cleaner would get a firmware update...
@@zanpekosak2383 Yes it does. it is connected to 2.4Ghz wifi. My robot software is version 2.4.6-3 updated october 1, 2018 and says it is up to date.. Enjoy.
This tutorial should be in Roomba's user manual. I have a carpet with thick black borders and my Roomba didn't want go on it. Your solution solved the problem perfectly.
This is fantastic! I have no drop offs to worry about, but could not get my Roomba to stop complaining at some very dark carpet. Support was no help and said there is no way to disable the cliff sensor. Your solution was simple and worked like a charm. Thank you!
Thank you SO much!! The ‘cliff’ warning has been a problem here. Dark wood floors, dark carpet, and even under tables. I had been turning on EVERY light in the house to keep it going. Lights helped, but it still was stuck under the same table in the foyer corner. Such a simple fix!! 👍
When I put the pieces of paper over the "cliff sensors" with a very tight fit to the surface of the sensor it did not work. It acted as if it was still on black carpet and told me to move to a new location. When I put just a tiny fold in the paper and made for a looser fit over the sensor -- it worked great. So in my case I had to make sure I did NOT have it super close to the sensor because apparently no light will get reflected back and it will not work. Also, I found doing one sensor at a time, then checking if the Roomba is still working, worked better than covering them all at once. When I covered them all at once it took a while for me to figure out which sensor cover was too tight. (The paper being too close might be why Celeste N could not get this to work -- see her comment below). Finally, I tried it WITHOUT putting the scotch tape on sensor side of the paper covers and could not get it to work. The tape on sensor side was a must for my machine, though I dont know why. All in all, a GREAT idea and I am GRATEFUL. Peace
Those two additional tricks (loose fit and one at a time) worked great! The original video and this part makes my wife very happy. Happy wife, happy life!
Men thanks! This comments save me lol, and the video, but yea if you put it too tight and cover the whole sensor it wont work! Also yes the tape on both sides is a most! Thanks!
Thank you kind stranger! Like Obi-wan Kenobi, you were my only hope. Now my robot vacuum works better than ever! I think it would keep going even if it ran over my cat. Superb. I do the Dance of Joy.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! My iRobot Roomba series 6 worked great until I bought a black and white patterned area rug for my living room. Using your suggestion, I originally tried regular paper with shiny tape and also tried tinfoil but I think they adhered too closely to the sensors making them believe they were 'dirty' which kept triggering Error 6. Using thick Glossy Photo Paper worked for me as I think a thick paper doesn't rest as closely to the surface of the sensors (for my model anyway). It would make sense if the product designers included a setting to disable 'Cliff Sensoring' for customers who do not have stairs. Anyway, I'm very happy you provided this work-around. Thank you again!!
OMG! Genius. It works perfectly on my S4 and now I can vacuum the entire house. We are on a single floor, so it's no loss to be missing the cliff sensors. (Subscribed!)
Thank you so much. I tried white paper taped over the sensors it didn't work. I added the shipping tape to both sides and now they both work. I have 2 Roomba's they are both running as I type. Thank you so much. We just purchased two rugs with black in them & both of them would not work on the rugs. Now they are running. I like this solution I don't have to take the whole Roomba apart. I would have thought Roomba would have come up with a solution to this with something that snapped over them. But they haven't that I can find. We did have a 2 story home and we needed the sensors to work. Thank you so much.
Well paint me green and call me Gumby. It works, my life has been saved. There used to be a time when I had to vacuum the one room in my house with a traditional vacuum cleaner. Those days are over. Thank you sir.
So my moms new Roomba has been getting stuck on our black carpet a lot. I did this and at first it wasnt working but on the pieces of paper I cut a tiny little corner off each one so it could see just a little bit of light and now its going perfectly! Thank you so much!
Awesome! I just a test by flipping my black carpet, and that was 100% the case! I'm soo happy. I just got it, and I was soooo disappointed because I assumed it was "bumping" off the sewn edge of the carpet...nope!
This is truly amazing! My Roomba stopped on the carpet due to the cliff error. I thought there may be the option to turn it off in the Roomba app. Unfortunately there isn’t, but then I found this vid! Will try it out now...hope it works! Thanks so much!! Also much appreciation for the additional comments regarding what to pay extra attention to!
Thank you for the detailed instructions! I was going to return mine. Now it works! Seems odd the manufacturer wouldn’t provide an option to disable these manually... design flaw.
Worked pretty well for my 614! Not perfect -- sometimes it takes multiple tries to start up without an error -- but once the roomba gets going it can get around on my black rug just fine. Thank you!!
Thank you for this suggestion! Finally I can get my Roomba to detect black carpets. I had a problem with the sensor that was next to the rotating wire sensor but like you mentioned, I just had to make sure that it wasn't obstructing the other sensor.
Thank you so much, I've been having a ton of problems getting my roomba to go over my black carpet and I have tried everything. Aluminum foil over the sensors worked for a while but suddenly stopped working. After reapplying aluminum foil multiple times and having it still not working properly I stumbled upon this video and used your method. It's working fine now! hopefully it stays that way
This is good if you do not want to open your Roomba. It works. The problem is the surfaces the get covered with tape/paper are also the surfaces that rub if you have shag type carpet. Eventually the paper/tape will get worn thru. For mine the tiny and sticky bit that came off got into one of the drive wheels needing that to be replaced. I recommend looking for this UA-cam video "Roomba TRUE Black Carpet Dark Border Cliff Sensor FIX (NO TAPE or FOIL)". you open your Roomba ans tape the IR emitters to the sensors so they always 'see' each other. Again, this video to tape a slightly reflective cover on the sensors is an 'easy fix'. It works. FYI: foil didn't work for me, but white paper did, go figure. I will be doing the 'true' fix for a longer term solution.
Did that on Ecovacs, vacuum was working just perfect till I got dark carpet in living room, I have stairs so added NO GO zone and hope it will keep it alive
Muito feliz com esse tutorial, salvou minha vida! Aqui em casa tenho um tapetão enorme listrado de preto e cinza e meu ropo glass 3 não subia nele por nada. Tentei colocar fita crepe, papel alumínio, papel branco e nada adiantava. Já estava até pensando em trocar o tapete (que eu amo por sinal) quando vi seu tutorial. Meio desiludida resolvi testar e não é que funcionou lindamente!! Muito obrigada por compartilhar conosco essa dica! Você é demais!!!
Sooo I’ve tried this with the 671. The trick is to leave some space between the sensor and the paper. I use aluminum tape works too...but only for some time. I’m trying some tweaks to this method now, haven’t found the perfect solution until now...but for now it’s better than to disable the sensors by opening the robot and voiding my warranty
I've had to do this fix on various robots from different manufacturers. The easiest was the Vileda, which only needed a couple of bendy drinking straws and no tape. I just got a new iRobot e5 yesterday, and while it's a little better than older versions, it still gets confused by the stripes so I'm going to have to do it again. It's completely ridiculous to pay hundreds of pounds/dollars for an "intelligent" robot, and then have to bodge it with paper and sticky tape, which means then it can't be used upstairs without the risk of an accident.
I just put two small squares of white shopping bag over the front two and it works 100% over my black carpet and doesn't fall off the stairs I legit have
Thank you for this. Our main traffic carpets have black borders and black designs. Our roborock e35 wouldn't go over them. We had to figure out how to tape the sensor by the corner sweeper, but after that this worked like a charm.
I never knew this was a thing!! I always wondered why the heck the roomba would stop once it hit the black rug which is extremely low pile and smooth to thr floor.. I swear it didn't do that in the beginning but for some reason it's been doing that now and all of a sudden it doesn't like my back tiles either! 🥴
The taped white paper didn't work on my Roomba 650. I saw someone else use aluminum foil which worked great! No more black rug traps! Roam free little Roomba!
I'm heartbroken...I can't get this fix to work. I have tried 3 or 4 kinds of Scotch Tape/packing tape, and the unit won't budge...just "error 6" and it won't budge.
I had no idea multiple people have this problem. I have a cream colored square carpet with a dark brown center. It always says it’s “on a cliff” once it reaches the dark brown and error 6. Why is this? The carpet is all the same thickness.
Update: I have forgotten to tape the paper so it haven’t worked for me? Second time I watched the video I have put the tape on the paper and finally it worked.
This didn’t work for me. Now it simply won’t start at all because it thinks it’s permanently on a cliff even though I followed this exactly, with glossy white paper covering the cliff sensors. Now my Roomba won’t even start and only makes the “stuck on cliff” error noise.
i'll try it out on rubber gym floor mats (all the dust etc on the mats... this can clean [I hope] overnight when no one there.. as long as it is roomba proof - ie no thin wires or cords to get wrapped around the side brushes....)
I just got an e5 and did this. Since the edges of the sensors are open on the side next to the bumper I folded it up on the edges. You haven’t had any problems?
Didn't work for me. Mine gets onto my black and grey carpet then quits because it's "near a cliff." Tried this, and had the same problem except that when I would follow the directions to "move roomba to another location and press clean" it couldn't tell it was in a new location with the sensors covered and wouldn't move until I removed the covers. Ugh! $600 to have this thing vacuum like 1/3 of a room and never without manual assistance!
They should just include the possibility to MAP dark surfaces on the app! So the robot "knows" that when going through that dark area, it's not in danger of falling, it's a dark surface. And I mean that for ALL robot cleaners (mine is not a Roomba) In fact, I mapped my house from a Charging Stating located between a black carpet and a glass door (so there was a corridor for it). I intended to add a "no go zone" over the black carpet. After mapping the whole house, some 2 and half hours doing it, I discovered the app won´t accept having a no go area so close to the charging station. And removing the no go area, it goes directly over the black carpet when leaving the charging station, resulting in it stopping. So I will have to change the Chargint Station location and will have to remmap the damn house again.
No need to go thru all the work of making a paper shield. Use a medical transparent tape which diffuses the light to the sensor. Make strip just long enough to cover the sensor. Error 4 solved
These tape fixes only last a couple weeks to maybe a month or two if you won the lottery. Dirt will find its way to get trapped underneath because you can't put a good amount of tape to keep it secure.
The dude's proclamation at 3:48 notwithstanding, the method shown in this video (and the many, near identical, incarnations shown in other videos) WILL fail in time and may NOT work, regardless of how careful you are. Before you grab your scissors, consider the method demonstrated here: ua-cam.com/video/MJDTyNdmMRA/v-deo.html; an effective remedy for this annoying flaw in Roomba design; AND, is a fix that lasts the life of the vacuum; AND, works across ALL Roomba models. (as of the date of this post). Be warned, however, that this alternative method requires you to 1) COMPLETELY disassemble your Roomba, 2) disassemble and modify the cliff sensors, and 3) reassemble the vacuum.
You would think they would have an option on the app to shut them off.
I asked them to put an option to do just that in the software with a warning that it can fall. But they are too lazy and stupid to so so.
@@j_356_5 Its not as easy as you think it might be. Yeah adding a section in the app would be really simple but I am sure flashing all the Roombas out there wouldnt be. You have to know if there is no option defined in the code of the microprocessor itself than it requires a reflash. And a reflash can only be done it you take the chip out.
It can get included in the firmware update. The problem is the sensors are a shit design and hence why vacuums like the 980 which were seriously expensive are now discontinued and new ones like the i7 an do black carpet. They just didnt want to deal with liability of them falling.
@@j_356_5 Now your gonna tell me a bloody vacuum cleaner gets firmware updates? Does it also have WiFi or some shit? Lol. I am really curios as I do t have anything like this at home but its hard for me to belive that a vacuum cleaner would get a firmware update...
@@zanpekosak2383 Yes it does. it is connected to 2.4Ghz wifi. My robot software is version 2.4.6-3 updated october 1, 2018 and says it is up to date.. Enjoy.
This tutorial should be in Roomba's user manual. I have a carpet with thick black borders and my Roomba didn't want go on it. Your solution solved the problem perfectly.
Amen.
This is fantastic! I have no drop offs to worry about, but could not get my Roomba to stop complaining at some very dark carpet. Support was no help and said there is no way to disable the cliff sensor. Your solution was simple and worked like a charm. Thank you!
Glad it helped!
Thank you SO much!! The ‘cliff’ warning has been a problem here. Dark wood floors, dark carpet, and even under tables. I had been turning on EVERY light in the house to keep it going. Lights helped, but it still was stuck under the same table in the foyer corner. Such a simple fix!! 👍
When I put the pieces of paper over the "cliff sensors" with a very tight fit to the surface of the sensor it did not work. It acted as if it was still on black carpet and told me to move to a new location. When I put just a tiny fold in the paper and made for a looser fit over the sensor -- it worked great. So in my case I had to make sure I did NOT have it super close to the sensor because apparently no light will get reflected back and it will not work. Also, I found doing one sensor at a time, then checking if the Roomba is still working, worked better than covering them all at once. When I covered them all at once it took a while for me to figure out which sensor cover was too tight. (The paper being too close might be why Celeste N could not get this to work -- see her comment below). Finally, I tried it WITHOUT putting the scotch tape on sensor side of the paper covers and could not get it to work. The tape on sensor side was a must for my machine, though I dont know why. All in all, a GREAT idea and I am GRATEFUL. Peace
THANK YOU! That worked.
This worked for me as well, ty!
Those two additional tricks (loose fit and one at a time) worked great! The original video and this part makes my wife very happy. Happy wife, happy life!
Men thanks! This comments save me lol, and the video, but yea if you put it too tight and cover the whole sensor it wont work! Also yes the tape on both sides is a most! Thanks!
Thank you kind stranger! Like Obi-wan Kenobi, you were my only hope. Now my robot vacuum works better than ever! I think it would keep going even if it ran over my cat. Superb. I do the Dance of Joy.
Thank you lol I’ve tried many tutorials on how to disable the drop censors and this is the only one that worked
No problem! 👍
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! My iRobot Roomba series 6 worked great until I bought a black and white patterned area rug for my living room. Using your suggestion, I originally tried regular paper with shiny tape and also tried tinfoil but I think they adhered too closely to the sensors making them believe they were 'dirty' which kept triggering Error 6. Using thick Glossy Photo Paper worked for me as I think a thick paper doesn't rest as closely to the surface of the sensors (for my model anyway).
It would make sense if the product designers included a setting to disable 'Cliff Sensoring' for customers who do not have stairs. Anyway, I'm very happy you provided this work-around. Thank you again!!
That is great to hear! Thank you!
I have done this before. I recommend using aluminum vent tape because it's highly reflective on the sticky side. Cuts the time to fix in half.
After watching this I tried taping a little strip of aluminum foil over the sensors and it worked phenomenally. Thank you for the inspiration!
Great to hear! Thank you!
OMG! Genius. It works perfectly on my S4 and now I can vacuum the entire house. We are on a single floor, so it's no loss to be missing the cliff sensors. (Subscribed!)
Glad it helped!
All that matters is thanks to your video my mother is happy again.
That's great!
Thank you so much. I tried white paper taped over the sensors it didn't work. I added the shipping tape to both sides and now they both work. I have 2 Roomba's they are both running as I type. Thank you so much. We just purchased two rugs with black in them & both of them would not work on the rugs. Now they are running. I like this solution I don't have to take the whole Roomba apart. I would have thought Roomba would have come up with a solution to this with something that snapped over them. But they haven't that I can find. We did have a 2 story home and we needed the sensors to work. Thank you so much.
Well paint me green and call me Gumby.
It works, my life has been saved. There used to be a time when I had to vacuum the one room in my house with a traditional vacuum cleaner. Those days are over. Thank you sir.
This just made my roomba think it was on a cliff and wouldn't go anywhere. I cleaned the cliff sensors and it seemed to help...
Thank you so much for this fix worked perfectly. Yesterday was the first time roomba cleaned the floor without stopping all the time
That is great! Thank you for letting us know!
So my moms new Roomba has been getting stuck on our black carpet a lot. I did this and at first it wasnt working but on the pieces of paper I cut a tiny little corner off each one so it could see just a little bit of light and now its going perfectly! Thank you so much!
Thank you this helped!
Awesome! I just a test by flipping my black carpet, and that was 100% the case!
I'm soo happy. I just got it, and I was soooo disappointed because I assumed it was "bumping" off the sewn edge of the carpet...nope!
Wow Great trick. I had really trouble with my roomba and the dark carpet and always got error messages. This saved my day.
Glad it helped!
This is truly amazing! My Roomba stopped on the carpet due to the cliff error. I thought there may be the option to turn it off in the Roomba app. Unfortunately there isn’t, but then I found this vid! Will try it out now...hope it works! Thanks so much!! Also much appreciation for the additional comments regarding what to pay extra attention to!
Thank you for the detailed instructions! I was going to return mine. Now it works! Seems odd the manufacturer wouldn’t provide an option to disable these manually... design flaw.
Design flaw? It’s literally designed like this so it doesn’t fall off stairs.
Thank you! The cliff sensors were driving me insane. They went off every single time. The Roomba hit the edge of the living room rug. Very thin rug.
Glad it helped! Thank you!
Genius! Solved my problem! 2 black floor mats that my roomba got stuck on every day. Frustrating as crap! Thank you!
Roomba 670
Worked pretty well for my 614! Not perfect -- sometimes it takes multiple tries to start up without an error -- but once the roomba gets going it can get around on my black rug just fine. Thank you!!
That's great! Thank you!
Thank you for this suggestion! Finally I can get my Roomba to detect black carpets. I had a problem with the sensor that was next to the rotating wire sensor but like you mentioned, I just had to make sure that it wasn't obstructing the other sensor.
Thank you so much, I've been having a ton of problems getting my roomba to go over my black carpet and I have tried everything. Aluminum foil over the sensors worked for a while but suddenly stopped working. After reapplying aluminum foil multiple times and having it still not working properly I stumbled upon this video and used your method. It's working fine now! hopefully it stays that way
Yaaaasss! It didn’t work until I loosened the covers- SO GOOD!
This is good if you do not want to open your Roomba. It works. The problem is the surfaces the get covered with tape/paper are also the surfaces that rub if you have shag type carpet. Eventually the paper/tape will get worn thru. For mine the tiny and sticky bit that came off got into one of the drive wheels needing that to be replaced. I recommend looking for this UA-cam video "Roomba TRUE Black Carpet Dark Border Cliff Sensor FIX (NO TAPE or FOIL)". you open your Roomba ans tape the IR emitters to the sensors so they always 'see' each other. Again, this video to tape a slightly reflective cover on the sensors is an 'easy fix'. It works. FYI: foil didn't work for me, but white paper did, go figure. I will be doing the 'true' fix for a longer term solution.
Did that on Ecovacs, vacuum was working just perfect till I got dark carpet in living room, I have stairs so added NO GO zone and hope it will keep it alive
This worked a treat for black and white rug that had been freaking 760 out! Had to do two layers over the front sensors but then off it went!
Muito feliz com esse tutorial, salvou minha vida! Aqui em casa tenho um tapetão enorme listrado de preto e cinza e meu ropo glass 3 não subia nele por nada. Tentei colocar fita crepe, papel alumínio, papel branco e nada adiantava. Já estava até pensando em trocar o tapete (que eu amo por sinal) quando vi seu tutorial. Meio desiludida resolvi testar e não é que funcionou lindamente!! Muito obrigada por compartilhar conosco essa dica! Você é demais!!!
Sooo I’ve tried this with the 671. The trick is to leave some space between the sensor and the paper. I use aluminum tape works too...but only for some time. I’m trying some tweaks to this method now, haven’t found the perfect solution until now...but for now it’s better than to disable the sensors by opening the robot and voiding my warranty
IT WORKED !!! THANK YOU SO MUCH
Glad it helped!
Love my Roomba. I don't know why it doesn't allow you to disable that feature if you live in a house without stairs. Should be an app feature.
Thanks for your helpful Info
Glad it was helpful!
I am wondering if you could put an avery address label over the sensor?
Glossy photo paper works really well--easier than paper covered with tape.
cool. thanks.
Is it just the reflectivity? Would aluminum foil work?
Awesome thanks! One less issue with my cheapo Chinese one now :)
It would always get lost on the black entry rugs and stop
I've had to do this fix on various robots from different manufacturers. The easiest was the Vileda, which only needed a couple of bendy drinking straws and no tape.
I just got a new iRobot e5 yesterday, and while it's a little better than older versions, it still gets confused by the stripes so I'm going to have to do it again.
It's completely ridiculous to pay hundreds of pounds/dollars for an "intelligent" robot, and then have to bodge it with paper and sticky tape, which means then it can't be used upstairs without the risk of an accident.
Omg you just saved my sanity!
hooray!
I just put two small squares of white shopping bag over the front two and it works 100% over my black carpet and doesn't fall off the stairs I legit have
I thought my roomba was broken! Thank you so much!
Worked like a charm. Thanks
Great to hear!
Hey mate, reckon this would work on black rubber gym flooring so the robot could clean the whole gym? With an entire black floor?
Thank you for this. Our main traffic carpets have black borders and black designs. Our roborock e35 wouldn't go over them. We had to figure out how to tape the sensor by the corner sweeper, but after that this worked like a charm.
I never knew this was a thing!!
I always wondered why the heck the roomba would stop once it hit the black rug which is extremely low pile and smooth to thr floor.. I swear it didn't do that in the beginning but for some reason it's been doing that now and all of a sudden it doesn't like my back tiles either! 🥴
The taped white paper didn't work on my Roomba 650. I saw someone else use aluminum foil which worked great! No more black rug traps! Roam free little Roomba!
Fantastic, worked like a charm!
super ! works like a charm on my 650 ! thanks !
this works with the 900 series pretty well but the 600 series not so much
ua-cam.com/video/MJDTyNdmMRA/v-deo.html
My damn iLife robot would freak out every time it went over a vent. This worked perfectly! Just can't leave the door open or it'll break free now
That is great!
Omg thank you I thought my bot was broken cause my carpet is completely black
Thanks!!
Thank you so much
I'm heartbroken...I can't get this fix to work. I have tried 3 or 4 kinds of Scotch Tape/packing tape, and the unit won't budge...just "error 6" and it won't budge.
Replace the motherboard 👍👍
Thx, but what I mean is that whilst the tape is on, it won't budge. This fix doesn't work for 675, sadly.
Doesn’t work For me... keeps giving error 6
Same. Error 6 please move Roomba.
Sensor probably broke
I have 2 brand new units. Sensors on both shouldnt be broken.
@@SimonSaysGFYS is it on a flat surface and does it attempt to start or does it just right away say it
@@gator_productions It never actually starts. The second I put it back down to start cleaning, it shows that error code.
Worked for me on a model 675.
are ALL of those cliff sensors for sure?
must the tape be aimed at the robot or at the ground?
What's the name of the song you got in the background? It's a sweet tune!
Jonny Tran Darude - Sandstorm
I had no idea multiple people have this problem. I have a cream colored square carpet with a dark brown center. It always says it’s “on a cliff” once it reaches the dark brown and error 6. Why is this? The carpet is all the same thickness.
beautiful!
Thank you!
Mine just gives this error randomly. Rooms are well lit. To bypass it I’ve added suggested method but still gives the same error. Any suggestions ?
Perfect fix for their stupid design. Worked perfect on my 860...thx!!!
This worked for me.
It doesn’t work for my roomba 690 :(
Mine either
Update: I have forgotten to tape the paper so it haven’t worked for me? Second time I watched the video I have put the tape on the paper and finally it worked.
FYI, didn't work for me on an E5.
This didn’t work for me. Now it simply won’t start at all because it thinks it’s permanently on a cliff even though I followed this exactly, with glossy white paper covering the cliff sensors. Now my Roomba won’t even start and only makes the “stuck on cliff” error noise.
I did this but the roomba got confused and started spinning 360° and then stopped. It didn’t know where to go
hmm. thanks for sharing that.
i'll try it out on rubber gym floor mats (all the dust etc on the mats... this can clean [I hope] overnight when no one there.. as long as it is roomba proof - ie no thin wires or cords to get wrapped around the side brushes....)
thank you i used a variation of this and it worked on my roomba e5
I just got an e5 and did this. Since the edges of the sensors are open on the side next to the bumper I folded it up on the edges. You haven’t had any problems?
Any ideas??
Did not work for me. I tried this and aluminum foil and both times just got error 6 move to New location
Hmm, Im not sure, it could be another issue?
Same for me :(
same here. Error 6... waste of time.
Allie Cline did you resolve the error 6 issue? I have the same issue with my Roomba e6
960, same error 6. tried foil and shiny white electrical tape, doubt this will work on my model
I tried this and it doesn’t move🥺
Didn't work for me. Mine gets onto my black and grey carpet then quits because it's "near a cliff." Tried this, and had the same problem except that when I would follow the directions to "move roomba to another location and press clean" it couldn't tell it was in a new location with the sensors covered and wouldn't move until I removed the covers. Ugh! $600 to have this thing vacuum like 1/3 of a room and never without manual assistance!
They should just include the possibility to MAP dark surfaces on the app! So the robot "knows" that when going through that dark area, it's not in danger of falling, it's a dark surface.
And I mean that for ALL robot cleaners (mine is not a Roomba)
In fact, I mapped my house from a Charging Stating located between a black carpet and a glass door (so there was a corridor for it). I intended to add a "no go zone" over the black carpet.
After mapping the whole house, some 2 and half hours doing it, I discovered the app won´t accept having a no go area so close to the charging station. And removing the no go area, it goes directly over the black carpet when leaving the charging station, resulting in it stopping.
So I will have to change the Chargint Station location and will have to remmap the damn house again.
Used silver tape on braava M6 and works so far.
Fixed it for me
awesome
No need to go thru all the work of making a paper shield. Use a medical transparent tape which diffuses the light to the sensor. Make strip just long enough to cover the sensor. Error 4 solved
Have you tried this on a Deebot?
Yes, and it worked fine.
These tape fixes only last a couple weeks to maybe a month or two if you won the lottery. Dirt will find its way to get trapped underneath because you can't put a good amount of tape to keep it secure.
are there any other cleaning robots that already solved that problem on black carpets
?
Thank you Thank you Thank you !!!!!
I tried this it did not work on my vacuum
This solution doesn’t work for my 2020 Roomba
Worked!
did not work, caused it to stay stuck in cliff error. used white paper
it does not work on my Roomba ;( bummer
Mine is still saying error 6 :(
Won't work says error 4 clean cliff sensor
Doesn’t work. Tried it on my e6.
Does not work on I7.
Missing the most important part: show it works at the end!
My Roomba won’t start after I taped the sensors
They are taped too tight. Use shiny paper like from a magazine.
*TIN FOIL IS FASTER* 💯
Good call, Ill try it out!
The dude's proclamation at 3:48 notwithstanding, the method shown in this video (and the many, near identical, incarnations shown in other videos) WILL fail in time and may NOT work, regardless of how careful you are.
Before you grab your scissors, consider the method demonstrated here: ua-cam.com/video/MJDTyNdmMRA/v-deo.html; an effective remedy for this annoying flaw in Roomba design; AND, is a fix that lasts the life of the vacuum; AND, works across ALL Roomba models. (as of the date of this post). Be warned, however, that this alternative method requires you to 1) COMPLETELY disassemble your Roomba, 2) disassemble and modify the cliff sensors, and 3) reassemble the vacuum.
not work
Does NOT work.
For those newer one here is a work around by pointing the transiviers to each other. ua-cam.com/video/MJDTyNdmMRA/v-deo.html
This really should not happen in the first place.
white cut vinyl. problem solved
good idea!