Neato Robotics Software

I love my robot!! It's so much easier now that it cleans for me. It cleans very well, although it does get stuck on my frilly carpet once in a while. It would be nice if the filter can open so I can clean it, but since it doesn't I put a tissue over it so the filter doesn't get super dusty. Also, the wheels of the robot aren't large enough to roll into one of the bathrooms I have that's about 2-3 cm talkers than the regular floor. So it constantly gets stuck and tries to go into the bathroom. Maybe they should upgrade the size ? Oh! And I noticed that when the wheels get stuck, the plastic things on the wheel falls off and leaves some remains on the floor, maybe if the material of the wheels were different it would be better as well. I believe that the app should have a function where I can click return to the base. Sometimes the robots done cleaning but it doesn't go back home, so it's quite annoying when I have to walk to the robot and drag it back to the base. It would be nice if the app had an upgrade where you can control where your robot is like a remote, although I don't think that'll be happening anytime soon. Overall, my robots been really helpful with cleaning, but there are things that should be fixed by the creators of the app and robot.

This Neato apps is simple to setup and connect to your robot vacuum. But it needs a fairly strong Wifi connection, especially if you want to maintain progress reports & location updates. So if you have dead spots in your home's Wifi coverage and your Neato bot happens to be in it then you will lose connection. All you can do is wait for the bot to re-enter a strong Wifi area and you will be re-connected. You can employ a Wifi extender like I did, and have the bot stationed near the extender. Just don't make changes to its setting while the bot is working like changing its name, then you will have to reset the connection and start all over in setting up the bot's schedule. When it came to stopping the bot in its vacuum run the Dock button in the apps would not work for my D5 Neato after I remotely stopped it, and I had to physically shut off the bot and carry it back to the charging base. The mapping feature is accurate but as I mentioned it needs a strong Wifi connection to create a complete image. In future updates to this apps I would like to see a feature that allows the user to program the bot to vacuum selected areas of the floor layout, after the bot has completely mapped the home. Overall this apps great!

*** Updated, based on developers comments, to 4 stars. However virtual borders should be a simple software implementation for BotVac Connected and newer vacuums. Again, not yet worth the upgrade due to no definitive must have upgrades in the latest BotVac vacuum. If you are new to the market, it is the best one out there for quality and money. 2 stars - When we first purchased our Neato BotVac Connected, it was the latest one at the time, connected to your wifi, you could control it through the app, etc. There were two features in the app that were very helpful. The first was the ability to send the robot back to the base. For some reason they removed it and have not brought that feature back. The other feature was the ability to control the robot with directional arrows. This was also removed without reason. The latest robot only brings virtual borders that you can put in the app. There is no reason this feature cant be implemented on current Wifi connected botvacs. I am not spending another $700 for a small feature after you have taken away others. If you are just buying into the market, maybe it is worth it, but if you are looking to upgrade, you have given us zero incentive.