Thank you for this! Our auto empty dustbin has been driving me crazy cause it hasn’t been emptying, exactly like you described. Your fix got it working instantly. So crazy that such a simple fix works so perfectly
You my man are are my Hero of the month. I've been struggling to think of ways to help the is issue and it never crossed my mind to just tape a port off. You sir are a genius!
I just bought one of these, and as an engineer I immediately went into detective mode. I'm glad to see others have fixed this. Now my new toy works in my pet-hair-laden home. So easy!
I concur.... you are a genius. A quick, reversible, effective and cheap (AKA Free) fix. We just got our Deebot N8 Pro+ and loved the concept of it's mapping capability and self cleaning. On the first go (as warned in other reviews) our dust bin was impacted with cat fur (I don't even think your fix would have worked) but after we let the bot clean under the beds a few times (and the cat fur was no longer accumulated for 3 years) the amount of fur in the bin was manageable and your fix worked perfectly. Now that we have our Deebot those areas will be regularly cleaned and the cat fur (and dust) kept to a minimum... particularly in those hard to get to areas where the Deebot shines. Thanks again!!!!
You're welcome. Just a word of caution...this fix only worked until my dog started shedding, then it was too much for the bin again. What I ended up doing was having it clean one room at a time (in the schedule) so that it returned to empty itself each time. That fixed it...mostly. I still find clogs, both with one port closed and both ports open, but a lot less often.
@@MrRoombato Thank you! Tape works great, but with a large shedding dog the per room schedule was what I was looking for. Now it empties between each zone/room. If only the app was better thought out.
wow what an easy fix. I cant believe Ecovacs didnt test this design more before going ahead with the double door design. This was my first Self Empty bot and I was extremely disappointed with the auto empty. I ended up purchasing a Eufy L60 SES which self empties fantastically. I will try this out on my Deebot because otherwise I love how well it cleans the carpets.
Thank you Bud!!! Just tried it and did an area vac quick where my dogs hang out as a quick test site where I knew I'd get a good amount of hair and sure enough when it got back to the station it sucked the giant clump right out. They need to set the bin up at the factory with a larger export hole at the one end than the 2 small ones at each end. Thanks again!
Omg, you my friend are a genious. I've been trying to trouble shoot this for weeks! I'll be trying this tomorrow for sure! The design flaw is absolutely bizzare and really makes me wonder about my T8
lol thank you. :) It works great for everything else, just not hair. My guess is that they built it this way to perform better in tests with artificial “dirt” like beads, cereal and jellybeans. The kind most reviewers use to measure emptying effectiveness.
This fix worked great! Thank you so much! I was worried I bought the autostation for nothing until I found this, as I was always left with a bin of pet hair.
Thank you Thank youThank you! This worked for our Ecovacs T8 AIVI and border collie. Only problem is that now I’ll have to buy bags for the auto empty station that never got anything in it before. I actually took the roller brush out on the slate part of our house and it did pretty well, and emptied itself too. I’ll put the roller back in for the carpeted half of the house. Your video was much appreciated!
That was brilliant. Thank you for pointing that out. I just bought my first robot vacuum and have cats (Persians with lots of hair). This was my first negative on the vacuum - not all the cat hair was moving. I just tried it, and it worked great. Thank you!
Just keep in mind depending on other factors, it may degrade performance overall. For me, it turned not to be effective long term because of how much my dog sheds, so I had to augment it with setting up the schedule so that it would clean each room individually (and return to the dock each time).
@@MrRoombato So, are you doing a scheduled area cleaning (e.g., do room A at 8:00, return; then do room B at 8:30, return; etc.?). Thanks for the advice. The scary thing is that the robot is finding dirt and hair I didn't know existed, and I'm cleaning way more behind it just to make sure the next go around is less strenuous. I think for the first several passes though, your hack works well to get the clumps, and then I will remove the tape. Thanks again.
I was hesitant to buy this vacuum because of the hair reviews...I bought it and figured I could just vacuum everyday....😬 Even at that it gets stick. So I had a thought of blocking one side and came to UA-cam to see if anyone had done it yet lol. Thank you for confirming my hypothesis. I'm slightly irritated that I spent $500 on a vacuum I have to modify but I'll give it a shot for a while before I decide to send it back....
well, for a rebuttal to the shaving your dog comment, I had this problem BEFORE i got my dog. It's called a wife and daughter. And, I don't think they'd appreciate it very much if I shaved them ;) I wondered if a mod like this would work. Hell yeah man! thank you! I'm about to try mine right now, although instead of clear tape I'm gonna use metal foil tape like they use for hvac. On a side note though, Has anyone else noticed their unit becoming less efficient with mapping? my vac was super efficient at first, but now it seems to get confused a lot, going back over the same areas in random passes instead of nice clean lines. I mean it still does lines too, but seems to waste a lot more time and battery now. Also, If I get lazy and don't run her for a couple weeks, she can't figure out the mapping, even if i haven't moved anything in the house at all, and then has to remap again. Any suggestions are appreciated!
Tried the single room empty, single room empty routine with one side taped and still clogged from G. Shep hair. In addition to taping one hole of the dustbin, I unscrewed the clear vacuum suction path on the bottom of the docking base and stuck in a piece of foam rubber on the side that runs to the taped up side to block it. This way, you get maximum suction out of the one port. This seems to work even better.
This totally helps. You don't even need to unscrew it. Just get some foam/plastic from your packages and make it large enough to stay stuck in the hole that was blocked off section. Make sure its tight enough to not get sucked in and clog the emptying bin and push it in enough so theres space for the bin flap to open when emptying.
I have a T8 aivi and have been on the fence about geting a auto empty station because of the issue with pet hair (i have three dogs) but now because of this fix i can get one. Thanks for the video!
Well, actually... :) This doesn't fix it. It still gets clogged up, it just takes longer. It's a really, really shitty bin for pet hair. What worked for me was changing my schedule from cleaning a large area (several rooms) at once to cleaning one or two rooms per scheduled event. That way it returns to the bin and empties itself more often.
@@itstvil It's really hard to recommend anything right now. iRobot has by far the best auto-empty dock, but their navigation and mapping suck and they scratch floors. Ecovacs has the best robots, the worst auto-empty docs and the buggiest dumbest app. Roborock has the best apps and used to make great robots that couldn't clean carpets well but haven't even released their auto-empty bin, and their new brush and brush/housing design scratches floors. The Neabot N1 is good, does everything well, but has no google/alexa commands other than start/stop and there are no aftermarket filters (that I could find, and the factory ones are expensive). Maybe the new Neabot Q11 will be great? I dunno. Right now I don't even know what to recommend. I would buy the Neabot N1 (it's about 400 with the auto-empty bin) and be happy with that until something better came out. It seems that all of the companies suck at different things and if you just combine them all into one you could have a great robot. There are rumors that Ecovacs and iRobot have entered into some sort of unholy alliance and that sounds really promising, but the downside is they are both using floor scratching rubber brushes and floor scratching floating down pressure brush housings. I am starting to hate vacuum robots. :) Maybe just get an i7+, clean the brushes often and just forget about lidar.
So the robot itself is great with pet hair and human hair. You do have to clean it every now and then but not nearly as often as most LIDAR robots. However...the self-empty dock is complete garbage if you have pet hair. So if you are buying just the robot, great. With the dock? Look elsewhere.
I just discover the new tip. Instead you tape the full size of bin, just tape it 1/4 or the half of it. It helped fix all the things you guys got ( solid thing can’t go, and thick pet hair ).
In this video, you tape the bin to cover up one side right? Instead of tape full of that side, we just need to tape half of it. Ex: You taped the left side, but for the few times the debris from left side doesn't GET out enough. Instead of blocking the air to help them get off, why don't we just make it slower ( or weaker air to get out ). It will help the the solid, small debris from left side get out through there. Also, it is not strong enough to push thick pet hair and dusts to separate them out.
@@voxgaming2064 Now that is interesting!! And will probably work better. Unfortunately I don't use the T8 anymore, I just got too fed up with it. If I did, I'd definitely try it. Thank you!
Amazing! I have had my N8 Pro + vacuum over a year and my dust bin has never automatically emptied. I have large dogs so I would manually empty it and clean it after every use. But now it empties after taping one door shut!!!!
I wonder if adding a wall in the middle of the bin to have two separate bins. Maybe add a filter like screen into the wall to keep the full suction of the bins at the same pressure… kinda like the screen they use for the air filter. Air can go through but not hair. So you keep the stock design but a wall to keep hair from making a rope to get stuck. But that might make more issues with dust build up but nothing regular cleaning maintenance wouldn’t fix with a water rinse.
I think the problem you'd run into is hair getting stuck on the divider as it goes in. But maybe not. If you try it, please let me know how it works out.
@@MrRoombato usually if I run the vacuum suction twice it and sucks out everything but today was a great example of how it didn’t work as I hadn’t run the vacuum for over a week. your analysis of the hair creating too strong of a bond to go either left or right is spot on.
Nice tip...I have a MASSIVE tip for you..Trust me....For your videos make sure you use tags and in the titles you have to put more info like for this title I would of done. Deebot T8 & N8 Robot Vacuum Pet hair Dust Bin Fix...should get you a lot more views!
WoW! I returned my T9 and bought an N8 because the auto dock was essentially free on this model which I thought was appropriate because it didn't work because of pet and human hair. A shame because the N8 isn't as good.
Do you know what’s other dock is for Deebot N8 plus? There is one main dock where it empties the suction box. In the box there is another dock which is plain without a big dock. I took that upstairs and it did second map and battery was low after 122 minutes so it needed to charge and I thought it will come to the small dock but it was keep looking for the big dock which is downstairs. Haha
If the self-empty dock and the robot were packaged separately, then the robot will come with its own charging dock/station. That's the little thing. It won't be able to find it on a different floor unless it starts there and figures out its in a different area/map, which they are not the best at doing.
I don't know. Maybe? This solution didn't really work for pet hair either...not once my dog started shedding. It's just a terrible bin design. But your solution may be the key. If you try it, please let me know how it works.
@@MrRoombato I will. What I have found to work a little better is to set multiple cleaning zones on a schedule. Becuase after each cleaning is complete it will go and empty itself.
@@AndrewMcSpadden Yep, that was the last thing I tried. It worked for a few days and then I started finding the robot's dust bin full of dog hair almost every day. Contrast that the to the Neabot Q11 or Dreametech Z10, which both empty their bins completely and flawlessly every day even during shedding season.
They will not say anything, as I seriously doubt they watch my channel. After all, I have videos titles "Angry Ecovacs Rant" and such. :) Yeah, I've been doing it for a while too...great minds think alike! It only recently occurred to me to make a video about it.
@@Hotsparks66 I don't hate Ecovacs. Far from it. The T8 AIVI, despite its numerous issues that Ecovacs refuses to fix, is still my favorite vacuum robot. If Ecovacs wants to reach out to me at any point, I'd be happy to review any new products they release. But I'm not going to lie about them. And I'm not going to sugar coat the truth about their flaws so as not to anger them. They make the best robots on the market (the physical robots themselves) with some of the worst programming and worst app of any of the major players. If they don't like that, they can change it.
@@MrRoombato OMG, 😱 thank you so much. Would you please start a FB page? The Ecovac fanboy mob gets so upset if you say anything critical about the product, and group owners stand on the sidelines with a blind eye to it all, censoring legitimate concerns. My wife and I had the exact problem. I saw it brought up on a FB group, and the solution, if you can believe this was to vacuum one room at a time. I called ecovac, and they tell me that auto clean cannot be used, the room split feature is not intended for splitting rooms, and to set up custom cleanings to clean two areas and clean the entire house this way daily. They have doubled down on this as they just launched another vacuum brand using this design. This is a leading robot vacuum company? RR didn't clean carpet and were made for the EU and Asian countries with rugs and very little pet hair.. They told me that the gearing by FW design is intended to stall to deal with main brush motor burn out warranty claims, which drove them to rubber brushes. Ecovacs makes great robot hardware, but my word, the bin is terrible, and the software... Wow... Their support is the worst... They will never send you a product because they can't trust you to lie for them... Aside from Adam, who also does not get a ton of free products, you are the only one being honest about the products... well, cordless vacuum reviews are pretty fair.
We have 3 family members with long hair and two dogs (one with long hair). We’ve had our deebot n8+ less than a week. I haven’t tried tapping one port closed yet but 3 times out of 6 the dust and hair has gotten stuck half way out of one port with nothing showing trying to come out of 2nd port. I have pictures.
Before you try taping one of the holes closed (that has yielded mixed results in long term testing), try setting the robot to clean one room at a time, so that it returns to the bin after every room (or two). That did the trick for me.
@@MrRoombato How do you set it to clean one room at a time and return to the bin? I could make a schedule that cleans one room, so you make as many schedules as you have rooms. Is that it? If so, how do you choose what time to pick for each room/schedule? Does it just queue up multiple jobs so I can set them all to the same start time?
@@neilmouneimne5451 That's it. I don't know if it will queue up jobs, but I think it won't. I just set the times 30 minutes apart. Or I used to, back when this thing was my "daily driver." Even so, the self empty bin couldn't always keep up my dog's hair and I often found the dust bin clogged.
I take it you ignore the app's prompts to clean the filter 😂 I have the same issue, and have resorted to having the vacuum not only run daily, but automatically self-empty after every couple of rooms
LOL! I used to, but now I think there may actually be something to it. Of course it's probably just wishful thinking. I don't think they have any sensors to determine that stuff. Though often, when it prompts me to clean the filter, I find a hair clog in there, so I wonder...
@@DanRichardson You're probably right, and I used to be convinced of this, but lately, I'm not so sure. It's probably a coincidence, but the clog thing has been uncanny.
It's a mixed bag, to be honest. If what it picks up is mostly pet hair it works great. If there is too much other stuff mixed in, it could lead to a clump. I suggest letting it clean every day and see how it does once it picks up most of the hair. For my T8, I am going to cover one whole when my border collie is shedding, and uncover it when he's not.
Yeah, if you have a LOT of pet hair, it won't do it. The bin really sucks. What I ended up doing was changing my nightly cleaning schedule so that it cleans only one or two rooms at a time. That way, it returns to the bin after each job and empties, then does the next job in the schedule. That's actually been working great for me. I even took out this mod to see if it would still work, and it does.
I did block 1 hole from inside like your, plus block 1 hole with tape on the bin, and reschedule by areas. Let's see it working well this week. Anyway,thanks for your video bro, keep up ur work.
@@kamediavlog7164 I hope it works for you! If it does, try removing the tape and see how it works with both openings. While it does do better with hair with only one (still not good enough though!), it does better overall with two. My dogs shed like crazy and so far, doing one room at a time has worked perfectly without this mod.
I almost returned my N8 before I saw this. Awesome robot, terrible design... The whole reason i bought a robot vacuum is to clean up after my 85lb golden that sheds with every step.
So...the thing in this vid made it better, but not better enough that it didn't cause the same problem (just not as quickly). The only thing I found that works, with or without this mod, is to run your scheduled cleaning one room at a time. So a different event for every room. That way, it returns to the dock after every room. Since I did that, I never had this issue.
@@MrRoombato it's funny I've one cat, and would never think that's enough to cause this kind of problem. But it does. I've plugged in your system now and looking forward to seeing how it works 👍
2 small holes for the suction out was such a dumb idea instead of a large hole like when it gets sucked into the bin. So dumb. Also you can actually see the 1 side that wasn't covered actually opens up all the way when emptying to be suctioned out. When it is 2 sides, they only open half way and the larger dirt gets stuck.
Thank you for this! Our auto empty dustbin has been driving me crazy cause it hasn’t been emptying, exactly like you described. Your fix got it working instantly. So crazy that such a simple fix works so perfectly
You my man are are my Hero of the month. I've been struggling to think of ways to help the is issue and it never crossed my mind to just tape a port off.
You sir are a genius!
I just bought one of these, and as an engineer I immediately went into detective mode. I'm glad to see others have fixed this. Now my new toy works in my pet-hair-laden home. So easy!
Seemed to really work. Had a huge issue with pet hair but had nit connected the dots on the real problem.
Thx
I concur.... you are a genius. A quick, reversible, effective and cheap (AKA Free) fix. We just got our Deebot N8 Pro+ and loved the concept of it's mapping capability and self cleaning. On the first go (as warned in other reviews) our dust bin was impacted with cat fur (I don't even think your fix would have worked) but after we let the bot clean under the beds a few times (and the cat fur was no longer accumulated for 3 years) the amount of fur in the bin was manageable and your fix worked perfectly. Now that we have our Deebot those areas will be regularly cleaned and the cat fur (and dust) kept to a minimum... particularly in those hard to get to areas where the Deebot shines. Thanks again!!!!
You're welcome. Just a word of caution...this fix only worked until my dog started shedding, then it was too much for the bin again. What I ended up doing was having it clean one room at a time (in the schedule) so that it returned to empty itself each time. That fixed it...mostly. I still find clogs, both with one port closed and both ports open, but a lot less often.
@@MrRoombato Thank you! Tape works great, but with a large shedding dog the per room schedule was what I was looking for. Now it empties between each zone/room. If only the app was better thought out.
@@cdevans01 If only a lot of things with that robot. :)
wow what an easy fix. I cant believe Ecovacs didnt test this design more before going ahead with the double door design. This was my first Self Empty bot and I was extremely disappointed with the auto empty. I ended up purchasing a Eufy L60 SES which self empties fantastically. I will try this out on my Deebot because otherwise I love how well it cleans the carpets.
Thank you Bud!!! Just tried it and did an area vac quick where my dogs hang out as a quick test site where I knew I'd get a good amount of hair and sure enough when it got back to the station it sucked the giant clump right out. They need to set the bin up at the factory with a larger export hole at the one end than the 2 small ones at each end. Thanks again!
Ecovacs needs to do a lot of things. At this point I'm not holding my breath.
Omg, you my friend are a genious. I've been trying to trouble shoot this for weeks! I'll be trying this tomorrow for sure! The design flaw is absolutely bizzare and really makes me wonder about my T8
lol thank you. :) It works great for everything else, just not hair. My guess is that they built it this way to perform better in tests with artificial “dirt” like beads, cereal and jellybeans. The kind most reviewers use to measure emptying effectiveness.
This fix worked great! Thank you so much! I was worried I bought the autostation for nothing until I found this, as I was always left with a bin of pet hair.
Thank you Thank youThank you! This worked for our Ecovacs T8 AIVI and border collie. Only problem is that now I’ll have to buy bags for the auto empty station that never got anything in it before. I actually took the roller brush out on the slate part of our house and it did pretty well, and emptied itself too. I’ll put the roller back in for the carpeted half of the house. Your video was much appreciated!
Glad to help!
That was brilliant. Thank you for pointing that out. I just bought my first robot vacuum and have cats (Persians with lots of hair). This was my first negative on the vacuum - not all the cat hair was moving. I just tried it, and it worked great. Thank you!
Just keep in mind depending on other factors, it may degrade performance overall. For me, it turned not to be effective long term because of how much my dog sheds, so I had to augment it with setting up the schedule so that it would clean each room individually (and return to the dock each time).
@@MrRoombato So, are you doing a scheduled area cleaning (e.g., do room A at 8:00, return; then do room B at 8:30, return; etc.?). Thanks for the advice. The scary thing is that the robot is finding dirt and hair I didn't know existed, and I'm cleaning way more behind it just to make sure the next go around is less strenuous. I think for the first several passes though, your hack works well to get the clumps, and then I will remove the tape. Thanks again.
@@jefskott99 Yes, that's what I mean. For me, none of it ultimately worked. Once my dog starts shedding, the bin can't handle it no matter what I do.
I was hesitant to buy this vacuum because of the hair reviews...I bought it and figured I could just vacuum everyday....😬 Even at that it gets stick. So I had a thought of blocking one side and came to UA-cam to see if anyone had done it yet lol. Thank you for confirming my hypothesis. I'm slightly irritated that I spent $500 on a vacuum I have to modify but I'll give it a shot for a while before I decide to send it back....
I'm sorry you have to go through that. It's a horrible bin design.
@@MrRoombato I did this for 2 days but now when my robot automatically empties the dust bin light turns red and the lid of the bin pops open.
well, for a rebuttal to the shaving your dog comment, I had this problem BEFORE i got my dog. It's called a wife and daughter. And, I don't think they'd appreciate it very much if I shaved them ;) I wondered if a mod like this would work. Hell yeah man! thank you! I'm about to try mine right now, although instead of clear tape I'm gonna use metal foil tape like they use for hvac. On a side note though, Has anyone else noticed their unit becoming less efficient with mapping? my vac was super efficient at first, but now it seems to get confused a lot, going back over the same areas in random passes instead of nice clean lines. I mean it still does lines too, but seems to waste a lot more time and battery now. Also, If I get lazy and don't run her for a couple weeks, she can't figure out the mapping, even if i haven't moved anything in the house at all, and then has to remap again. Any suggestions are appreciated!
You7 cracked me up!!!!!But seriously what a genius idea, thank you so much
Tried the single room empty, single room empty routine with one side taped and still clogged from G. Shep hair. In addition to taping one hole of the dustbin, I unscrewed the clear vacuum suction path on the bottom of the docking base and stuck in a piece of foam rubber on the side that runs to the taped up side to block it. This way, you get maximum suction out of the one port. This seems to work even better.
thank you for the information!
This totally helps. You don't even need to unscrew it. Just get some foam/plastic from your packages and make it large enough to stay stuck in the hole that was blocked off section. Make sure its tight enough to not get sucked in and clog the emptying bin and push it in enough so theres space for the bin flap to open when emptying.
You have changed my life.
I have a T8 aivi and have been on the fence about geting a auto empty station because of the issue with pet hair (i have three dogs) but now because of this fix i can get one. Thanks for the video!
Well, actually... :)
This doesn't fix it. It still gets clogged up, it just takes longer. It's a really, really shitty bin for pet hair. What worked for me was changing my schedule from cleaning a large area (several rooms) at once to cleaning one or two rooms per scheduled event. That way it returns to the bin and empties itself more often.
@@MrRoombato would you recommend a different one for households with more pet hair than average?
@@itstvil It's really hard to recommend anything right now. iRobot has by far the best auto-empty dock, but their navigation and mapping suck and they scratch floors. Ecovacs has the best robots, the worst auto-empty docs and the buggiest dumbest app. Roborock has the best apps and used to make great robots that couldn't clean carpets well but haven't even released their auto-empty bin, and their new brush and brush/housing design scratches floors. The Neabot N1 is good, does everything well, but has no google/alexa commands other than start/stop and there are no aftermarket filters (that I could find, and the factory ones are expensive).
Maybe the new Neabot Q11 will be great? I dunno. Right now I don't even know what to recommend. I would buy the Neabot N1 (it's about 400 with the auto-empty bin) and be happy with that until something better came out.
It seems that all of the companies suck at different things and if you just combine them all into one you could have a great robot. There are rumors that Ecovacs and iRobot have entered into some sort of unholy alliance and that sounds really promising, but the downside is they are both using floor scratching rubber brushes and floor scratching floating down pressure brush housings.
I am starting to hate vacuum robots. :)
Maybe just get an i7+, clean the brushes often and just forget about lidar.
Works perfectly on mine. Thanks!
Tq man it really helped... ❤️ From India!
Hi. Thanks for the video. I want this robo vacuum, but tell me how brush is friendly with hair? How often you clean brush from hair your pet ?
So the robot itself is great with pet hair and human hair. You do have to clean it every now and then but not nearly as often as most LIDAR robots. However...the self-empty dock is complete garbage if you have pet hair. So if you are buying just the robot, great. With the dock? Look elsewhere.
Thanks. I'll give it a go, was going to return it to the store today because it was so disappointing...
Don't try longer than your return window. :)
I just discover the new tip. Instead you tape the full size of bin, just tape it 1/4 or the half of it. It helped fix all the things you guys got ( solid thing can’t go, and thick pet hair ).
I'm not sure I understand...can you explain a bit more?
In this video, you tape the bin to cover up one side right? Instead of tape full of that side, we just need to tape half of it. Ex: You taped the left side, but for the few times the debris from left side doesn't GET out enough. Instead of blocking the air to help them get off, why don't we just make it slower ( or weaker air to get out ). It will help the the solid, small debris from left side get out through there. Also, it is not strong enough to push thick pet hair and dusts to separate them out.
@@MrRoombato I'm not good at explaining, sorry about it.
@@voxgaming2064 Now that is interesting!! And will probably work better. Unfortunately I don't use the T8 anymore, I just got too fed up with it. If I did, I'd definitely try it. Thank you!
@@MrRoombato what robot vacuum do you use now if you don't mind me asking?
Thank you so much. Video is very helpful.
You are welcome! Glad it helped.
Amazing! I have had my N8 Pro + vacuum over a year and my dust bin has never automatically emptied. I have large dogs so I would manually empty it and clean it after every use. But now it empties after taping one door shut!!!!
I'm glad it works for you!
Some manufacturers introduced 1 blowing and 1 sucking port, instead 2 sucking ones. Everyone is still learning obviously.
I wonder if adding a wall in the middle of the bin to have two separate bins. Maybe add a filter like screen into the wall to keep the full suction of the bins at the same pressure… kinda like the screen they use for the air filter. Air can go through but not hair. So you keep the stock design but a wall to keep hair from making a rope to get stuck. But that might make more issues with dust build up but nothing regular cleaning maintenance wouldn’t fix with a water rinse.
Hair would get caught on the wall and tangle the brush, I think. I actually considered trying it and that was why I didn't.
Legend this works a dream even on the 9
Wondering if you segmented the bin into 2 parts it would achieve the same thing?
I think the problem you'd run into is hair getting stuck on the divider as it goes in. But maybe not. If you try it, please let me know how it works out.
@@MrRoombato usually if I run the vacuum suction twice it and sucks out everything but today was a great example of how it didn’t work as I hadn’t run the vacuum for over a week. your analysis of the hair creating too strong of a bond to go either left or right is spot on.
Thanks for this video. I have massive amounts of dog and girlfriend hair. This mod works much better for me :)
Nice tip...I have a MASSIVE tip for you..Trust me....For your videos make sure you use tags and in the titles you have to put more info like for this title I would of done. Deebot T8 & N8 Robot Vacuum Pet hair Dust Bin Fix...should get you a lot more views!
Thanks man! I'll do that now. UA-cam says I don't need tags if my keywords are in the title or the description...do they lie?
@@MrRoombato I could be wrong but I feel like they help.
@@AdamsReviews Well I guess they can't hurt! I'm going to retrofit everything with tags. Thanks for the tip!
WoW! I returned my T9 and bought an N8 because the auto dock was essentially free on this model which I thought was appropriate because it didn't work because of pet and human hair. A shame because the N8 isn't as good.
Do you know what’s other dock is for Deebot N8 plus? There is one main dock where it empties the suction box. In the box there is another dock which is plain without a big dock. I took that upstairs and it did second map and battery was low after 122 minutes so it needed to charge and I thought it will come to the small dock but it was keep looking for the big dock which is downstairs. Haha
If the self-empty dock and the robot were packaged separately, then the robot will come with its own charging dock/station. That's the little thing. It won't be able to find it on a different floor unless it starts there and figures out its in a different area/map, which they are not the best at doing.
Great humor, great video
Thanks!
thanks man!
what if you leave the other side a little open instead of completely blocking it? does that help with small debris?
I don't know. Maybe? This solution didn't really work for pet hair either...not once my dog started shedding. It's just a terrible bin design. But your solution may be the key. If you try it, please let me know how it works.
@@MrRoombato I will. What I have found to work a little better is to set multiple cleaning zones on a schedule. Becuase after each cleaning is complete it will go and empty itself.
@@AndrewMcSpadden Yep, that was the last thing I tried. It worked for a few days and then I started finding the robot's dust bin full of dog hair almost every day.
Contrast that the to the Neabot Q11 or Dreametech Z10, which both empty their bins completely and flawlessly every day even during shedding season.
I wonder if this will work with long human hair aka the female variety?
Well most of that will end up wrapped around the brush. :P But yes, it will work for that too.
Seems one larger opening in the middle would be a much better design.
Yes, definitely.
U r genius!!!!
I’ve already been doing that. Yes it works! Bad design. Not sure what Ecovacs will say.
They will not say anything, as I seriously doubt they watch my channel. After all, I have videos titles "Angry Ecovacs Rant" and such. :)
Yeah, I've been doing it for a while too...great minds think alike! It only recently occurred to me to make a video about it.
I actually thought about posting about it, however they do watch my channel. But it’s good info to get out there.
@@Hotsparks66 I don't hate Ecovacs. Far from it. The T8 AIVI, despite its numerous issues that Ecovacs refuses to fix, is still my favorite vacuum robot. If Ecovacs wants to reach out to me at any point, I'd be happy to review any new products they release. But I'm not going to lie about them. And I'm not going to sugar coat the truth about their flaws so as not to anger them. They make the best robots on the market (the physical robots themselves) with some of the worst programming and worst app of any of the major players. If they don't like that, they can change it.
@@MrRoombato I agree. How long have you been doing reviews?
@@MrRoombato OMG, 😱 thank you so much. Would you please start a FB page? The Ecovac fanboy mob gets so upset if you say anything critical about the product, and group owners stand on the sidelines with a blind eye to it all, censoring legitimate concerns. My wife and I had the exact problem. I saw it brought up on a FB group, and the solution, if you can believe this was to vacuum one room at a time. I called ecovac, and they tell me that auto clean cannot be used, the room split feature is not intended for splitting rooms, and to set up custom cleanings to clean two areas and clean the entire house this way daily. They have doubled down on this as they just launched another vacuum brand using this design. This is a leading robot vacuum company? RR didn't clean carpet and were made for the EU and Asian countries with rugs and very little pet hair.. They told me that the gearing by FW design is intended to stall to deal with main brush motor burn out warranty claims, which drove them to rubber brushes. Ecovacs makes great robot hardware, but my word, the bin is terrible, and the software... Wow... Their support is the worst... They will never send you a product because they can't trust you to lie for them... Aside from Adam, who also does not get a ton of free products, you are the only one being honest about the products... well, cordless vacuum reviews are pretty fair.
OMG thanks you so much
Super thanks.
My pleasure!
We have 3 family members with long hair and two dogs (one with long hair). We’ve had our deebot n8+ less than a week. I haven’t tried tapping one port closed yet but 3 times out of 6 the dust and hair has gotten stuck half way out of one port with nothing showing trying to come out of 2nd port. I have pictures.
Before you try taping one of the holes closed (that has yielded mixed results in long term testing), try setting the robot to clean one room at a time, so that it returns to the bin after every room (or two). That did the trick for me.
@@MrRoombato How do you set it to clean one room at a time and return to the bin? I could make a schedule that cleans one room, so you make as many schedules as you have rooms. Is that it? If so, how do you choose what time to pick for each room/schedule? Does it just queue up multiple jobs so I can set them all to the same start time?
@@neilmouneimne5451 That's it. I don't know if it will queue up jobs, but I think it won't. I just set the times 30 minutes apart. Or I used to, back when this thing was my "daily driver." Even so, the self empty bin couldn't always keep up my dog's hair and I often found the dust bin clogged.
I take it you ignore the app's prompts to clean the filter 😂
I have the same issue, and have resorted to having the vacuum not only run daily, but automatically self-empty after every couple of rooms
LOL! I used to, but now I think there may actually be something to it. Of course it's probably just wishful thinking. I don't think they have any sensors to determine that stuff. Though often, when it prompts me to clean the filter, I find a hair clog in there, so I wonder...
@@MrRoombato pretty sure it's just a prompt that reminds you every 30 hours of use or something
@@DanRichardson You're probably right, and I used to be convinced of this, but lately, I'm not so sure. It's probably a coincidence, but the clog thing has been uncanny.
Well it 100% fixed it for me man , very weird mechanic that dosent work the way its supposed to lol atleast easy work around !
Glad it worked!
Any update on how this has worked long term? i just purchased one and had this exact problem from the start .
It's a mixed bag, to be honest. If what it picks up is mostly pet hair it works great. If there is too much other stuff mixed in, it could lead to a clump. I suggest letting it clean every day and see how it does once it picks up most of the hair. For my T8, I am going to cover one whole when my border collie is shedding, and uncover it when he's not.
Actually, T8+ with your fix still can't do good with my dog hairs. Sad. I will wait a little bit more for other brands and will sell this one then.
Yeah, if you have a LOT of pet hair, it won't do it. The bin really sucks. What I ended up doing was changing my nightly cleaning schedule so that it cleans only one or two rooms at a time. That way, it returns to the bin after each job and empties, then does the next job in the schedule. That's actually been working great for me. I even took out this mod to see if it would still work, and it does.
I did block 1 hole from inside like your, plus block 1 hole with tape on the bin, and reschedule by areas. Let's see it working well this week. Anyway,thanks for your video bro, keep up ur work.
@@kamediavlog7164 I hope it works for you! If it does, try removing the tape and see how it works with both openings. While it does do better with hair with only one (still not good enough though!), it does better overall with two. My dogs shed like crazy and so far, doing one room at a time has worked perfectly without this mod.
I almost returned my N8 before I saw this. Awesome robot, terrible design... The whole reason i bought a robot vacuum is to clean up after my 85lb golden that sheds with every step.
So...the thing in this vid made it better, but not better enough that it didn't cause the same problem (just not as quickly). The only thing I found that works, with or without this mod, is to run your scheduled cleaning one room at a time. So a different event for every room. That way, it returns to the dock after every room. Since I did that, I never had this issue.
@@MrRoombato Wow, thanks! You're the man!
@@cdog4656 my pleasure
@@MrRoombato it's funny I've one cat, and would never think that's enough to cause this kind of problem. But it does. I've plugged in your system now and looking forward to seeing how it works 👍
Good luck!
2 small holes for the suction out was such a dumb idea instead of a large hole like when it gets sucked into the bin. So dumb. Also you can actually see the 1 side that wasn't covered actually opens up all the way when emptying to be suctioned out. When it is 2 sides, they only open half way and the larger dirt gets stuck.