OK There! Sieghard (Oh! Thee of little faith!) I can go one better!
When I first got my original Roomba, Silver, many moons ago, For sound, all
it did was a sort of low pitched bleep and some trilling fanfares of triumph
when all was done. If something was wrong, it played a tune and then bleeped
one time through (that's an Americanism for you!) eight beeps. Now, we do have
to understand, the Roomba range are made by IRobot, famous, not for vacuum
cleaners, but assault robots in the theatre of war. They go in and blow things
up! This, then, is the mind-set of the programmers. Well, I was reading through
the manual of my new and greatest Love of my life, when upon perusing how many
beeps meant which indication, such as, "my brushes need cleaning" "my battery
is low" etc, when, to my great concerne, I read "If your Roomba bleeps 9 times,
Please phone IRobot immediately! Do not go through your retailer, but contact
us directly!"
I have always treated my Roombas with respect! As you might imagine.
Sandy.
sent from the dark side of the moon
> On 31 May 2016, at 20:51, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi Sandy,
>
> How about these push notification, are they part of the repertoire:
> Pew, I hate hairballs
> Yak, I just ran over something brown, warm and squishy, did you forget to let
> out the dog again
> Help, the dog just peed on me and all I was trying to do is suck up the mutts
> hair
> Oops, what was that, did you let your pet mouse run around again?
>
> Maybe I should write a book along the lines of Christine where robo vac goes
> rogue.
>
>
> Good luck, just make sure and watch your back!
> Sieghard
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 12:15 PM
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> Subject: Neato BotVac Connect with app. Looks really good!
>
> Hi,
>
> Don't want to tire people with all this talk of robot vacuums, but, just
> thought, rather than leave it in the air, primarily extolling the virtues of
> the Roomba range of vacs, I would mention the competition, which also has an
> app, and which, I am 99 per cent certain, I am going to buy. It is the BotVac
> Connect from Neatorobotics. It is about 200 dollars cheaper and has great
> reviews. I downloaded the app, which is a free app, created an account, which
> was easy, and now am playing with my pretend Bot, wishing it were real! In
> other words, it looks like the app is VO friendly, but one does need to have
> a Bot to be sure to be sure. From my reading, and playing with the app, I see
> that you can get push notifications as to how the bot is doing. This would me
> most useful as otherwise the info would be shown on the display and,
> therefor, not accessible to us. Notifications might be, for example, "I need
> emptying", "My brushes need cleaning", "my sensors need a wipe", "I have
> finished cleaning and am docked" or "I am stuck, please help me!". Once it is
> linked to the house wifi, you can use the app to get him to do the whole of
> one floor, from anywhere in the world. If he gets, say, half way through his
> task and needs to refuel, he will dock himself and once recharged, will
> return to where he left off and continue! Pretty good IMHO.
>
> Sandy.
>
> sent from the dark side of the moon
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