Comments on: Xiaomi Mi Robot Vacuum Review: Premium Features at a Not-So-Premium Price

By: Jaime

Jaime — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 19:25:04 +0000

In reply to Aman.

Yes. It recharges and then goes back to the start it left off at and finishes. This won’t be necessary though unless you have a really large house. It has a very long battery life.

By: Jaime

Jaime — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 19:22:21 +0000

I have had a xiaomi for 2 years now. It is still going strong – I love it. One thing you didn’t cover is that Xiaomi says that the robot actually learns. I have witnessed this myself. In my old home there was a threshold that it could not climb back up and over once it fell off of it. It was the perfect height that the robot would travel down over it, but just barely too high to climb back up it after passing by. After several weeks I noticed that the robot would fall off of the threshold and then travel all the way around the house, and come back into the room it was in through the other door. I also noticed that it got stuck less and less as it learned where obstacles were. I just moved to a new house and when I first sent the robot on its way it could not get into the bedrooms. The carpet was too shaggy for it. It couldn’t make it pass the threshold. After a few days she started going into the bedrooms but then would get stuck in the shag of the carpet. I’ve been here 3 weeks now and she goes into each bedroom on the carpet and vacuums the entire room. There is a separate area of construction where the tile floor has been torn up. When I first moved in the robot would get really stuck. But I leave her and let her figure it out. For the first few days she got stuck constantly. After a few days she was able to vacuum the area, but she got confused and never continued PAST the construction area to clean the bedroom, bathroom, and closet beyond the torn up floor. After a few week she now navigates the construction area without getting stuck, and she continues on to the rooms beyond.

I’m not sure HOW the robot learns, since my impression is a new map is generated after each cleaning. But I’ve definitely witnessed it and did read on the Xiaomi site that the robot uses AI Learning.

By: Garrick Dee

Garrick Dee — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:35:15 +0000

In reply to Dani Turienzo.

It saves the cleaning sessions of previous cleaning cycles but it does not store it. As far as I know the only robots that does that are the Neato BotVac D7 and the ROomba I7.

By: Garrick Dee

Garrick Dee — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:34:00 +0000

In reply to Otto Souta.

You’d have to move the charging station to the floor the robot is cleaning. There’s no robot vacuum yet that can climb stairs 🙂

By: Patrick Barrett

Patrick Barrett — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 18:35:58 +0000

I bought this vac when my Neato MV-21 broke down. It’s suck is supposed to be one of the best, I callit one of the Worst! No suck, leaves it on the floor for me to finally pick up. Stops every 15 min with brush blocked. Nothing but a few strands of hair. at the end, the bucket is hardly full, doesn’t do carpets at all. only hardwood floor. Nice battery life and modular inside, which is good since you have to do your own repair. But if the DOG WON’T Hunt, all you can do is kill it.

By: James

James — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 18:11:51 +0000

Hey Derrick, I have really dark brown almost black hardwood floors. reading your review you suggested it didn’t work on black carpets? does it have this problem on a very dark floor or is it just a problem with the transition to a dark floor?

By: Miguel

Miguel — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 02:23:57 +0000

I have a bunch of smart house products and the vacuum is the one that utilizes more bandwidth that all. In one day it transmits 130 to 155Mbps to a site miliao.com, remember that is not download like updates, is upload. This is not only when is in use, it does it all day. I know it could be the cloud for the company but I still think is a lot of traffic. What it is doing? Can anyone monitor the traffic utilization to see if mine is normal.

Hostname: rockrobo
Device Type: XiaomiEl
Activity: 32.9 Kbps (All the time)
Down Pkts/Bytes: 992,496 / 217 MB
Up Pkts/Bytes: 2,218,802 / 1.28 GB

By: Otto Souta

Otto Souta — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 02:10:07 +0000

Hi, can you tell if the Xiaomi Mi is able to clean rooms on different floors? Would it mean taking the charging station to those floors, or just the robot?
Thanks for nice review and videos!

By: Hugo

Hugo — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:19:13 +0000

Hi there, first off, really nice video thanks for it.

I just got mine, but whenever I try to connect it to my router my MiHome App keep up to 90% of the connection and then gives me a “The connection timed out”.

I tried everything, from setting it to Mainland china to hardware reset, I can’t get pass this 90% barrier. Do you happen to have any tips?

By: John

John — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:53:11 +0000

It should be noted that the iPhone app stopped working about a week ago, so while you can still launch a cleaning run by pressing the button on the robot, you’ll no longer be able to schedule cleanings, start spot cleans, remote control the robot, or know when it’s time to replace filters and parts. Before buying, I recommend keeping an eye on the App Store reviews to see if they’ve fixed it.