iRobot Roomba Combo j5+ Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum & Mop – I…

Price: $314.68
(as of Nov 21, 2024 01:14:54 UTC – Details)

B0C4151YK5, The Roomba Combo™ j5+ robot vacuum & mop is designed for both wet and dry floor cleaning—converting our most popular Roomba® j7+ vacuum to a vacuum & mop solution with the simple switch of a bin. Unleash powerful, accurate cleaning when, where, and how you want. The Roomba Combo™ j5+ robot vacuum and mop packs not only Power-Lifting Suction, but also unique intelligence that learns your home and your routines to give you custom cleaning control. With PrecisionVision navigation, your robot knows to avoid objects like pet waste, cords, socks, and shoes for worry-free cleaning.
THE…, 4, Reviewer: Aztek bum
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Love it!!
Review: We already own one roomba (roomba 860, bought in 2016). WE use the old one 2 to 4 times a weeks and still runs great after 4 years (to my surprise we didn’t have to replace the battery yet).However I really wanted to get a new “smarter” roomba to run on the first floor and keep the old roomba on the ground floor to clean rooms in parallel. The roomba I7 has been a game changer.1) NAVIGATION: the I7 is so much smarter in navigation compared to the old 860. The old 860 was using a random pattern that was very unefficient and very time consuming. The i7 is methodical with parallel strokes and finishing by vacuuming the room edges. It gives me reason to believe all room as been vacuumed and it is a lot faster so can get more job (more sqft) done in the same amount of time. If it runs out of battery during a cleaning it will go back to the dock station, recharge, and resume where he left off: altough we don’t really use this feature (we typically plan cleaning runs that are well within a battery charge) it is a nice one.2) SMART MAPS and APP: the smart map is so useful. No need to baby sit the roomba by putting lighthouse (the light fences) or move it room to room manually. Now with the app I just choose which room I want clean and the roomba undock, goes to the room(s), clean only that room(s) and come back to charge once finished. Making a schedule on the app is very fast and easy. Remote start is also a nice thing (example we checked in the morning that kids have not left stuff in their room and then we can start the roomba after leaving so he does his job undisturbed).We didn’t buy the self cleaning station. The price premium was excessive and we didn’t think it was necessary. We always clean the roomba after each run (we have a normal vacuum that we use to vacuum the dust bin and the rollers). Said that it is probably a nice feature for families with different habits / needs.The two cons that I have is thata) the dust bin is smaller than the old roomba. Said that it has never been an issue for us. We run the roombas in short task (30 minutes cleaning in average) and we clean it up after each run, so the risk of overfilling is very low for us. Said that it coud be a minus with familieis with different habits.b) it will NOT run in the dark, it needs light to operate (otherwise the camera cannot detect the rooms). Again this is not an issue for us as we always run it during daytime when we are home or in the office.Based on this roomba i7 is a 5 stars for us and we stronlgy recommend it.

Reviewer: Juan Carlos Vargas
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nice product
Review: Excellent device, it creates a house map and every day improves the way of cleaning.

Reviewer: Steve
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great vacuum, but could be much better.
Review: It cannot handle more than one map. This seems to be a deliberate deficiency. The claim is that the vacuum cannot load more than one map, but since it is WiFi and there is an app involved, then it could easily have many maps that get loaded based on what level of your home you want to clean.Other than that, it works VERY well and does a great job. It still does a lot of stupid AI movements, but it is much better than 5-10 years ago. iRobot makes very slow advancements in robot technology, but this j series is getting close to being where they should have been a decade ago.Complaints are minor:1. They advertise it is good for pet hair. it is much better than the older 800 series but still rolls the hair sometimes and leaves it behind for a human to pick up.2. The mapping is much better but it is still not quite there. It does a lot of things right and is really amazing, but then it will not get under a table because it sees a cord hanging that is not touching the ground, but still in the way. I like it that it prefers to stay away rather than suck up a cord, but it should get better at determining that a cord is high enough to not get pulled.3. You can send it out for a small job and it picks up the few crumbs that were there but when it returns, it dumps the crumbs into the docking station vacuum. This is so loud and not necessary. It really should only dump the bin if it is full or partially full. Not ignorantly on any return to base.It really is a great product, but with so many years behind them, they really shoudl be doing much better. Competitors are leaping ahead and I would consider a competitor if I already wasn’t deep into Roombas.

Reviewer: John Santos
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: If this thing was a tiny bit smarter, it would be much better!
Review: My biggest issue with the Roomba is that it usually dies from the battery going dead before it makes it back to the charging station. You would think it would learn how far it could get and start for home, but I’ve had it since August, cleaning 3 times a week plus spot jobs, and it doesn’t seem to have gotten any better.I know it knows it is running on fumes because I’ve caught it a few times in the App saying it was returning home to charge, and had it not make it there. Instead it heads back in the right general direction but wanders off before getting there. If it had gone straight back (or even indirectly back), it would have had plenty of power to reach the charger, but it just doesn’t dock, most of the time! I’ve seen it drive right past the dock, turn around, go into the next room, vacuum for while, and then let out a plaintive bleep and die. All the while the App on my phone saying it’s returning to the dock to recharge. Often, when it does make it back, it will resume vacuuming before it is fully charged, and then die. If it had just waited on the charger for another 10 minutes, it would have finished the job!I think this is purely a matter of bad programming. It seems to know how much charge is left in the battery; the little battery icon in the App seems to be fairly accurate. I think the battery is okay. It is new and gives about an hour and a half of run time on a full charge.My house is as lot cleaner after 4 months of running 3 times a week. It does seem to work fairly well, except for its insanely over-optimistic notion of how much more work it can do on the remaining charge in its battery. My biggest peeve is the number of times I have to rescue it and carry it back to its base station because it ran out of battery. (The App keeps track and since Nov 4, it has run 30 times and died with a low battery 10 times and gotten stuck 6 times, so it had preventable problems more than half the time.)Update: 12/23/21. It refuses to vacuum my living room. If I set up a special job, it almost always claims it s path was blocked. But it is perfectly happy to vacuum other rooms that require going through the living room to get there! I have it programmed to vacuum the front rooms in the house twice a week, which includes the living room. Looking at the maps afterward, it shows it vacuuming all the other rooms, but only around the edge of the living room. I think there is some “memory” in it where it thinks it shouldn’t be there, or thinks the living room has magically transported itself to another universe or otherwise is totally F’ed up. There appears to be no way to diagnose or reset it. I could erase it’s map (basically do a factory reset), but that is a huge pain, especially since I currently have it set to avoid the Christmas tree (which is NOT in the living room, and if the keep-out zone around the tree is causing this problem, then that in itself is a serious error in its programming.)I’ve tried rebooting it, but that didn’t help at all.Roomba’s support is useless. Basically, they just read the minimally informative web page at you.It would be quicker and more effective to use a manual vacuum cleaner.Update 1/9/22: it is still refusing to vacuum my living room for no apparent reason. When told to explicitly vacuum the living room, it just skirts the edge and declares itself done in a couple of minutes without actually doing anything. When it does its regularly scheduled set of rooms including the living room, it does the sun porch (adjacent to the living room, where the base station is), traverses the living room to the front entry, then skirts the living room to vacuum the dining room, then returns through the living room to park in the sun porch. I’ve tried remapping my apartment to no avail. Next step is a complete factory reset, but I don’t want to do that until my Christmas tree is down, because the tree causes it problems. and I’ll lose my “keep out” zones.———July 2, 2024 -I came back here to downgrade the rating, but it is already 1 star. For the last year, it has been getting worse and worse. It constantly requires attention, always get stuck on obstacles it use to negotiate with ease, like very low thresholds and the edges of carpets and the tile area in front of my fireplace, and often gets lost trying to dock to recharge or because (on rare occasions) it has actually completed a job. Often it gets lost within inches of the docking station. The software problems are worse than ever. For instance, it will announce that the charge is low and it is returning to the docking station, but then will wander off into another room, not on the path to the docking station, and the battery will run off because it forgot to recharge. I’ve actually seen it announce it was returning to the docking station, then hear it in another room, check the status and see it is vacuuming again with very low charge and not having gone anywhere near the docking station. This is clearly a software bug.Sometimes it get stuck on a perfectly level surface and says it is on an uneven surface, to move it and press clean. I DON’T move it, just press clean and it resumes. Clearly, it was NOT stuck.I’ve cleaned it many times, replaced the brushes and filters, replaced the pivot wheel, tested the main driving wheels as per the instructions, and today, discovered and performed the docking test. It worked perfectly and then got stuck 10 minutes later.On the advice of a friend, I replaced the battery last week. It seems to last longer on a charge but doesn’t perform any better otherwise.I’ve done many reboots and checked for software updates. None available.Yesterday afternoon, I tried to delete and create a new map. After a couple of hours exploring one room, it ran out of battery and said to move it to the dock. I did so, but by then it was getting dark and it never resumed the mapping run as it said it would. This morning, it was fully charged, and the map it produced yesterday looked bogus so I told it to start a new mapping run. It never got out of the room with the docking station, and, over an hour into it, it is stuck again on the 1/16″ high lip at the edge of the fireplace hearth. I think it is trying to vacuum up the tiles, which it thinks are dirt, and despite the fact that it is not supposed to do cleaning while on a mapping run.The fireplace (and the thresholds) never used to be a problem. Getting totally lost never used to be a problem. I’ve replaced all the replaceable parts. The problems all have the stench of undebugged software. I suspect they might have replaced a rule-based algorithm with some sort of generative AI, or some other bone-headed move.If I can’t get the mapping run (in my small, single-floor apartment with few obstacles) to work and can’t discover any way to reload the original software from 4 years ago (which basically worked), I am going to trash the useless piece of junk.Is it possible to rate something ZERO stars?—————-I was just about to boost the rating to maybe 3 or 4 stars, when it struck again!i tried everything to make it work properly, including buying a new battery. It didn’t claim the battery was at EOL, but friends who have multiple Roombas told me the problems I was having could be due to a dying battery. So I replaced it. Since i didn’t know if it would help, I bought a “compatible” battery https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KXYNBDQ?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details for about half the price of an iRobot-branded replacement. The battery fit perfectly, has identical specs, charged up fine but didn’t solve any of the problems I was having.Tried deleting and creating a new “smart” (i.e. idiotic) map. It kept getting stuck and never finished a mapping run. It could clean okay without a map, but kept getting stuck and could only rarely find its charging station. It would often vacuum at random for an hour or two, announce it we returning to the station for recharging, but never get there. I think this was due to the lack of a map. The vacuuming and battery life with the new battery seemed fine. But without a map, I couldn’t schedule it or tell it what rooms to clean.Finally, I tried the last remaining replacement – the tires! The tires are cheap but a little tricky to replace, but I did so. The new tires have a much thicker tread than the originals and some reviewers said this was a problem but they seemed to work fine.The first thing I tried was a new mapping run. It worked perfectly! I then realized I had left a couple of doors shut, so it couldn’t map two of the rooms. So I told it to vacuum the rooms on the map. (It had to go back and recharge a couple of times, which worked fine.) Then I opened the two doors and told it to map again. It found and mapped the new rooms and then I told it to vacuum them. Last week, I manually told it to vacuum, half the house on Monday and again Thursday, and the other half on Tuesday and Friday. (There were lots of “return to the base and recharge the battery” events in the course of these two weeks.)Over the weekend, I set up the schedule again. It was supposed to do 1/2 the house on Monday and Thursday and the other half on Friday. Monday evening, I noticed it had not done the scheduled Monday job, but didn’t have time to look at it. Yesterday, it also didn’t do its scheduled job. The App said it wasn’t charged, so I wriggled it on the charger base to make sure it lit up. (Maybe I need to clean the contacts, though I did that pretty recently.)Today I had some time to look at it. The App still said it needed charging, so I made sure it was on the charger base again. The App said it couldn’t contact the Roomba, so I restarted the App. (Sometimes this helps. Crappy software.) When I did so, it still said it needed charging, so I went an reseated it again and pressed the “Clean” button. This time is says “Please install an iRobot brand battery and now refuses to charge or do anything else!Back to zero stars for this incredibly annoying, incredibly time-consuming “labor saving device”.

Reviewer: cesar
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Funciona excelente y sí reconoce desniveles o escalones. El único detalle que sí se atora con los cables de algún aparato eléctrico. Por lo demás limpia muy bien.

Reviewer: Terra
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This product was way better than expected! It improves each time you use it. Always mapping out to make sure it gets every area possible. Very impressed! I love how it goes under furniture and under all my beds. Now that I have one I won’t be able to go without it. It runs every day and saves me so much time. Works well on carpets and I have 4 cats and 1 dog. Loved it so much I bought 1 for upstairs and another for downstairs. Detects stairs, toys and anything that’s in the way. Total lifesaver on cleaning time! Buy one you won’t regret it!

Reviewer: Amber
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: My new best friend!! Surprised what a great job it does on the floors. The mop feature isn’t as thorough as actually mopping, but does a nice mid week touch up.

Reviewer: LilyK
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: What a complete waste of money!This vacuum has never been able to complete a single cleaning accurately, even though it seems to think it has. Large areas are completely ignored, even though it’s a fairly small 2-bedroom apartment. Purchased the iRobot in November/23 but didn’t set up and use until May/24. I previously had a $299 Ninja Shark that cleaned 100 times better than this useless piece of junk, even though it had no mapping capabilities. The main reason I made a change was that I awoke in the middle of the night a number of times to the sounds of something, or someone, bumbling around in the living room. It turned out that the Shark had embarked on unscheduled vacuuming forays between 2:30 and 4:00 am, scaring me half to death. As I live alone, this was quite startling, so I decided to spring for a new robot vacuum with mapping capabilities.The iRobot is now giving out signals that the battery doesn’t work (button lights up in red) when it’s only been used for two months and is not used daily. Mostly once or twice weekly, some weeks not at all.I purchased all the mopping supplies as well, more $ wasted as I am afriaid to even try the mopping feature.I’m sorry that I didn’t just choose a new Shark with mapping ability.Tried to get to the support web site, only to find that “the server can’t be found”. Excuse me???I utterly regret this purchase, as it was fairly expensive and the vacuum is quite useless.The app is not at all intuitiveAmazon has had a LOT of my money over the years!NO, I absolutely DO NOT recommend this product.Update: now going backwards and in circles. Can’t even get itself out of the room where it docks.WORST PURCHASE I HAVE EVER MADE!!!

Reviewer: Bridgette
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I cheaped out on my first robot vacuum and bought one without smart mapping. I had no idea how important that feature is. Don’t skip that feature! The knock off one I ordered before (Laresar) was like $350 and died in under 6 months. It constantly bonked hard into everything, was total chaos/random on where it would go, never connected to my Alexa, customer support was completely MIA, no warranty, just bad. For my birthday this year my husband bought me the Roomba J7. I am kind of confused why it says J9 on the side, but whatever. My only other strange thing is when you try to setup the mop on the Roomba app, despite scanning the barcode it came with, it seems to send directions for an entirely different unit. Telling you to put down a drip tray and plug in a separate device. Because of this, I thought my roomba was missing pieces, so I contacted Amazon and they sent me another roomba, that one didn’t have a drip tray/other plug in device either, so I came to the conclusion that there’s something wrong with the mop setup directions on the app. Besides for that though, it’s done a pretty dang good job of keeping the (hardwood) floor quite clear of debris. It’s fascinating to watch it slow down when approaching objects so it doesn’t hit them as hard, or how it reroutes itself around things in its way. Quite intelligent. It is a bit loud when it’s going, but that doesn’t bother me all that much. I have a medium pile area rug in the living room and it doesn’t do a very good job of sucking up the cat hair that’s embedded in the fibers of the carpet…it just pushes the cat hair into rolls. I wouldn’t waste my money on this if you mostly have carpeted floors – it works much better on hardwood/laminate/vinyl floors. I appreciate the ease of connection with Alexa to this robot, I like the self emptying container, I like that it reroutes itself very easily when it gets stuck somewhere. I haven’t used the mop on it just yet, but even still, I would recommend this product to others.

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