Hi Jeramy,
Rule 1 with the BotVac, never use fluids! Never use the Vac on wet floors
or carpets. So, no cleaning fluid etc. Spot clean is for hoovering a defined
space. There are 2 settings of size for spot clean. 1. Approx 6 foot x 6 foot.
2. Approx 13 x 13 foot. The Bot will clean a square of floor, directly in front
of it and, you can choose to do this once or have it do the area twice for a
more intense clean. I think you could use it for a whole room, depending on the
size of your room, or, as in my case, I might like to give a carpet an extra
doing. For example, I have a couple of rugs, about 6 x 8 feet, if I put the Bot
just central in front of one edge, and press the left, the spot clean, button,
if I have set it to the smaller option, it should, pretty much do the whole rug
and then finish. I might not want to do the whole house, as with the "clean the
house" option. I have some rooms that are smaller than the 13 x 13 size and I
might just want to do that room, I could use the spot clean for that. If I
wanted to do a large room, I could set the bot down at one end of the room, let
it do the larger spot clean and then move it to the other end, thus, doing the
room in two parts.
As for carpeting: I find the Bot to be very effective on carpets. Because
most of my floors are hard, I prefer to use the squeegee brush, but this does
do carpets well too! But to get a bit deaper, I change the brush to the one
with bristles, every now and again. This, I think, is down to one's own
situation/house/pets etc. But one thing is for sure, liquids of any kind,
accidental or intentional, such as cleaning fluids or water, must not be
present while the Bot is working.
HTH, Sandy.
sent from the dark side of the moon
> On 27 Jun 2016, at 01:48, Jeremy Gilley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Sandy,
> Does spot clean work on carpet?
> If so, would you put some kind of cleaning fluid on the carpet first? or is
> spot clean just for hard floors?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 'Sandratomkins' via VIPhone [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2016 3:57 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Small update on the BotVac app accessibility.
>
> Marie,
> The left button does the spot clean. As for it getting stuck, I have only
> had mine stuck twice, that I can remember, in both cases, I just moved the
> Bot just enough to free it and left it. After about 30 seconds, it started
> up again by itself. Not sure if this is typical or not. Early days for all
> of us By the way, have you sorted out how to change between Turbo and Eco
> yet? If you need directions, let me know, it took me a little while to spot
> it!
>
> Sandy. !!
>
> sent from the dark side of the moon
>
>> On 26 Jun 2016, at 18:05, Marie <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Okay, I got the vac connected to the internet. This morning I started it
> up using the home button and it went on its way. that is, until it got stuck
> under a table. I was alerted to this and went and located the vac. I pulled
> it out and check the screen on the ITouch. There was the message that
> cleaning was suspended and the Show Options, which I clicked on. The only
> option which did anything was to to go back and reset the map. I clicked on
> it and got the message that it was ready to clean but when I click on the
> Play button, nothing happens other than a beep from the vac.
>> So what now? I tried the Be My Eyes and she said she could not read the
> screen.
>> And by the way, what does the left button do?
>> Thanks. Marie
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: 'Sandratomkins' via VIPhone
>> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2016 3:56 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Small update on the BotVac app accessibility.
>>
>> Marie,
>>
>> I can't remember if I wrote this before: So, at the risk of repeating
> myself, press the button to the right of the handle, with the straight edge
> nearest you, holding down for 15 seconds and wait. You should hear a tune,
> you will have reset your Bot to default settings. If the Bot has not yet
> been successfully connected to the wifi, it still won't be. However, once
> the wifi is turned on again by way of the settings on the machine itself, it
> will then show up again as an access point. This happened to me too! I can
> only say that you do, for now, need help with the initial setting up of the
> wifi and this means, until the set up is completed. I have just spend the
> last week alone, apart from a mad Irish Water Spaniel, who is of no help at
> all! and my machine has worked flawlessly, doing the house every day for me,
> despite muddy paw prints!! Once you have got past this initial hiccough, you
> should be good to go. I know that, at first, while you are getting used to
> the Bot, it feels frustrating getting error messages that don't explain
> themselves via the app, and I am hoping that, as more of us use the BotVac,
> we can encourage an improvement in the app, but you soon learn that the
> error messages that you don't receive, are, in general, of three types, I.E.
> Bin needs emptying, Brushes need cleaning and Battery needs charging. This
> last one happened to me because, while I thought it was properly docked and
> charging, it had been knocked by the dog's ball slightly off. For now, I am
> using Be My Eyes when I get stuck, not the best solution, but useful
> nevertheless. However, in order to get the most out of BME, you do need to
> know what to ask your volunteer to look for. For example, when I was wanting
> to know the battery status, my helper couldn't see the screen. She said it
> looked blank, I had a little thought and pressed, just a short press, of the
> 'home" button, the one to the right of the handle, this turned the Bot on
> and my helper on BME could see the screen and read the status for me.
>>
>> Truly, this will sort itself, and you will learn how to deal with the
> Bot, where, at the moment, we cannot read for ourselves the screen.
>>
>> Always remember, just a press of that same button will start you Bot
> off, in its default setting, I.E. Clean house in Turbo mode, and then return
> to dock.
>>
>> Please do keep us posted with your progress as other people are buying
> this Bot and we can all learn from each other!!
>>
>> Sandy.
>>
>> sent from the dark side of the moon
>>
>>> On 25 Jun 2016, at 22:28, Marie <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well I think you might have underestimated the ease of getting connected
> to the WyFy. I had my sister turn it on and then thought I would be able to
> complete the process with the app. I got through all the steps up to waiting
> the 3 minutes for it to connect. At the end of that, I got the message that
> it failed to connect with no explanation except to check the display screen.
> If I could see the display screen I would not need the app. So I am a bit
> frustrated now with no sighted assistance available and no way to get
> started. When I try to repeat the process, the Neato no longer shows up as
> an access point on the WyFy settings? any suggestions?
>>> Marie
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message----- From: 'Sandratomkins' via VIPhone
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 6:14 AM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Small update on the BotVac app accessibility.
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> After a little panic on my part, i now find I can use the app a little
> better! i just managed to change Turbo to Eco. I just did a spot clean, when
> it cleans an area, either 2 meters x 2 meters or 4 meters x 4 meters. Then
> it returns to base. I did this by just pressing a button, so very easy.
> Useful for rugs or single rooms. My issues with my house network wifi
> settings are almost resolved, touch wood. I am discovering that the best way
> to deal with the vac is to let it do its own thing, I.E., "clean house"
> either with the app or just press a button, there are only two buttons, and
> then leaving it to finish. From my reading, this is true for all users, but
> especially for us, as not all notifications are sent to the app, some show
> up on the onboard screen and need to be read. I find it a bit concerning
> replacing the Bot on its dock, visually, you can tell by the lights that it
> is in the right position, but without the clues, hard to tell. So a quick
> way to be sure would be to do a "spot clean" by pressing one button, when it
> has finished, it will go home and play a tune and send a message.
>>>
>>> Still very happy, floors cleaner than they have been for years!
>>> Smug, Sandy.
>>>
>>> sent from the dark side of the moon
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