Walmart has iHome AutoVac Nova Self Empty Robot Vacuum & Mop w/ Mapping for $249. Shipping is free.
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Key Features:
Auto Empty Base
HomeMap 2.0 Lidar:
The iHome AutoVac Nova uses a laser based navigation system and multiple sensors for superior mapping, object avoidance and floor coverage.
Define and customize Rooms and Virtual Boundaries in the iHome Clean App.
Ultra Strong Suction:
Hyper Drive Plus with 2700pa suction power handles fine dust, stubborn dirt, pesky dirt hair and more.
Dual Action Wet/Dry:
Vacuum and Mop simultaneously with the 2-in-1 tank. Debris is stored in the dry compartment as the mop follows with a wet pass.
Connect Nova to Wi-Fi for voice and app control when you want it. Use the iHome Clean App to manage Nova from anywhere and connect to Alexa or Google Assistant to control your AutoVac by voice.
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Walmart has iHome AutoVac Nova Self Empty Robot Vacuum & Mop w/ Mapping for $249. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member Dealzslickk for finding this deal.
Key Features:
Auto Empty Base
HomeMap 2.0 Lidar:
The iHome AutoVac Nova uses a laser based navigation system and multiple sensors for superior mapping, object avoidance and floor coverage.
Define and customize Rooms and Virtual Boundaries in the iHome Clean App.
Ultra Strong Suction:
Hyper Drive Plus with 2700pa suction power handles fine dust, stubborn dirt, pesky dirt hair and more.
Dual Action Wet/Dry:
Vacuum and Mop simultaneously with the 2-in-1 tank. Debris is stored in the dry compartment as the mop follows with a wet pass.
Connect Nova to Wi-Fi for voice and app control when you want it. Use the iHome Clean App to manage Nova from anywhere and connect to Alexa or Google Assistant to control your AutoVac by voice.
Model: iHome AutoVac Nova Self Empty Robot Vacuum and Mop, Laser and HomeMap Navigation, Alexa/Google and App Control
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Well, it depends on what you want. I wanted something to wipe my floor with a wet rag twice a week. - - MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Grey Mop rag, but I do see dirty water when I wash out the rag in the white bathroom sink w my fels naptha!
With Lidar, and room divider on app, it's smart enough to Mop the kitchen and bathroom without going into the carpeted living room.
Compared to something that cost over $400, this definitely has faults! It's loud, (we feel that talks too much but found how to lower the speech volume in the app, and only empty the Dustbin every third day because that feature is incredibly loud), I found it drips a few drops of water occasionally even when the mop feature is off, it did not adjust with daylight savings time so I had to turn off cleaning and turn it back on in the app to get it to work.
Personally, I am picky about walking on barefoot floor, and I feel kitty litter is a nightmare, and it does miss a crumb here and there, but gets most of it! My husband was against spending money on these things and said "our floors have never been cleaner" (he was vacuuming/steam mopping once weekly)
So overall, we are not ready to spend over $500 and something to clean a rental home. This is the perfect compromise, and I'm happy with what it can do. It vacuums our foyer/guest bath/kitchen/laundry room daily, mops twice weekly, and vacuums living/dining room once weekly. I manually pick it up and carry it upstairs to vacuum every other week, find the map in the cleaning history (you can go back at least 3 weeks... I don't know if more) and so it does the upstairs too.
It vacuums better than the eufy (this is 2700pa vs 2000 on eufy, wish these robots could do the stairs!
I currently have both this ihome and the wyze robots at home. I'm going to return one and have been leaning towards keeping the ihome. Yesterday my wife and kids were wrapping presents and got glitter all over the place so it was a good test for both. Both couldn't completely suck up all the glitter from my tile floors. I still had to bring out the normal vacuum. The wyze has a lower suction rating but was louder and the air that came out of the rear vent felt stronger. Cleaning-wise I didn't feel one was better than the other. Both failed at getting all of the glitter and appear to achieved similar levels of cleaning. Now I have to decide if the self-empty gimmick is worth $50.
For the app, the ihome app was easier at defining rooms, lets you spot clean, allows for control of the vacuum with a d-pad (also has a remote with d-pad) The wyze app has some restrictions on dividing up a room (divider lines can only anchor to exterior walls) and no spot cleaning...
Bought at 269, returned due to poor mopping, couldn't find home on many occasions, lost connection more then once and had to manually restart multiple times.
Does the unit also use the base to recharge itself as well as returning to auto empty when full? Also, wondering if it can avoid hurling itself down the stairs?
Bought it 2 weeks ago at $269 and Walmart refused to price adjust...guess I'll just have to return the old one out of spite.
The 2 weeks that I had it, it worked well with no issues. It does return to base to charge and empty. The frequency of the self-empty can be after once, twice, 3 run cycles, or never. It also does have cliff sensors to avoid falling down the stairs.
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Does the unit also use the base to recharge itself as well as returning to auto empty when full? Also, wondering if it can avoid hurling itself down the stairs?
All of these robovacs do a great job avoiding falling down the stairs. This one has rooms on the app, so you can draw "boxed" areas on the map for it to avoid (and choose avoid mopping or avoid both)
How long have you used it,these don't last more than a year I heard.
Had mine for a little over a month. Did have trouble finding home once... Was very weird, it pushed its own home over when started vacuuming, and so then got thrown off on the map for the house and going back home. I had to pick it up and take it home, and reset the map to the previous from cleaning history.
Does it detect a step down? Our kitchen is higher than the living room and I wonder if this will fall down into the living room when cleaning the kitchen area.
Does it detect a step down? Our kitchen is higher than the living room and I wonder if this will fall down into the living room when cleaning the kitchen area.
Yes it does, its never falled off the step for me.
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I bought one about two months ago and I'm incredibly pleased with it. On hard surface flooring is where it really excels. Dog hair, crumbs,etc have been greatly reduced by running this every few days. It's fine on carpet to pickup things on the surface but it's not a deep clean like a regular vacuum.
The wet mop feature is okay. It's exactly like someone described as dragging a wet washcloth across the floor. I tried it once just to see and it's better than nothing but It doesn't scrub/apply pressure to things that are actually stuck on the floor. Wet moping wasn't a feature I was looking for so I don't care much that it isn't great.
The app has been fine for me but and I think the issue that people have with it are due to their wifi coverage. As best I can tell the app and the map interactions only "stick" when the vac is awake and actively on the network. I also think it needs two full vacuum sessions on a given map for it to be saved but that purely anecdotal. When I first tried to set zones and borders my edits on the map would not save. I came back to it a day later after I had run it a second time and everything seemed to finally work as expected. My zones and borders were saved and it's been great ever since. Again I think it needs to be running and actively sending back data to the app when you're making edits but that was my limited experience.
We also made the mistake of "testing" on its first run. We hadn't vacuumed the main area so there was plenty of normal buildup and dog hair (golden retriever who sheds). It ended up clogging the canister after two empty's. Once I figure that out we know to use it as maintenance cleaning. Not primary. We use our real vacuum once a week and it's perfectly fine maintaining in between. We can clearly see in our Shark vacuum that it's only picking up half the amount that it used to so the iHome is clearly doing a solid job of reducing the building during the week.
The other really cool part is how It maneuvers around chair legs and under the tables! It's unreal how well it navigates around obstacles. I'd highly recommend this vac to anyone looking to try a robot vacuum especially at this price point.
Thanks, do you know how this compares against the Roborock S4 Max? (Getting it at about 10$ difference from Amazon due to Amazon prime card)
Especially if you agree mopping is not great
And yes, we do have all hardwood floors.
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With Lidar, and room divider on app, it's smart enough to Mop the kitchen and bathroom without going into the carpeted living room.
Compared to something that cost over $400, this definitely has faults! It's loud, (we feel that talks too much but found how to lower the speech volume in the app, and only empty the Dustbin every third day because that feature is incredibly loud), I found it drips a few drops of water occasionally even when the mop feature is off, it did not adjust with daylight savings time so I had to turn off cleaning and turn it back on in the app to get it to work.
Personally, I am picky about walking on barefoot floor, and I feel kitty litter is a nightmare, and it does miss a crumb here and there, but gets most of it! My husband was against spending money on these things and said "our floors have never been cleaner" (he was vacuuming/steam mopping once weekly)
So overall, we are not ready to spend over $500 and something to clean a rental home. This is the perfect compromise, and I'm happy with what it can do. It vacuums our foyer/guest bath/kitchen/laundry room daily, mops twice weekly, and vacuums living/dining room once weekly. I manually pick it up and carry it upstairs to vacuum every other week, find the map in the cleaning history (you can go back at least 3 weeks... I don't know if more) and so it does the upstairs too.
It vacuums better than the eufy (this is 2700pa vs 2000 on eufy, wish these robots could do the stairs!
For the app, the ihome app was easier at defining rooms, lets you spot clean, allows for control of the vacuum with a d-pad (also has a remote with d-pad) The wyze app has some restrictions on dividing up a room (divider lines can only anchor to exterior walls) and no spot cleaning...
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The 2 weeks that I had it, it worked well with no issues. It does return to base to charge and empty. The frequency of the self-empty can be after once, twice, 3 run cycles, or never. It also does have cliff sensors to avoid falling down the stairs.
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The wet mop feature is okay. It's exactly like someone described as dragging a wet washcloth across the floor. I tried it once just to see and it's better than nothing but It doesn't scrub/apply pressure to things that are actually stuck on the floor. Wet moping wasn't a feature I was looking for so I don't care much that it isn't great.
The app has been fine for me but and I think the issue that people have with it are due to their wifi coverage. As best I can tell the app and the map interactions only "stick" when the vac is awake and actively on the network. I also think it needs two full vacuum sessions on a given map for it to be saved but that purely anecdotal. When I first tried to set zones and borders my edits on the map would not save. I came back to it a day later after I had run it a second time and everything seemed to finally work as expected. My zones and borders were saved and it's been great ever since. Again I think it needs to be running and actively sending back data to the app when you're making edits but that was my limited experience.
We also made the mistake of "testing" on its first run. We hadn't vacuumed the main area so there was plenty of normal buildup and dog hair (golden retriever who sheds). It ended up clogging the canister after two empty's. Once I figure that out we know to use it as maintenance cleaning. Not primary. We use our real vacuum once a week and it's perfectly fine maintaining in between. We can clearly see in our Shark vacuum that it's only picking up half the amount that it used to so the iHome is clearly doing a solid job of reducing the building during the week.
The other really cool part is how It maneuvers around chair legs and under the tables! It's unreal how well it navigates around obstacles. I'd highly recommend this vac to anyone looking to try a robot vacuum especially at this price point.
Especially if you agree mopping is not great
And yes, we do have all hardwood floors.
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