Yes. Link your alexa to it ans ask to locate Roomba. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ann Byrne Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2022 6:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Roomba
Will it make a sound so you can locate it if it stops somewhere other than the docking station?? At 09:58 PM 7/16/2022, you wrote: >We bought it from Amazon as part of Amazon Prime Days. > >I'd say Mike's review was spot on. My sighted wife and I set it up >together, but based on what I could see, I could have done the setup >completely by myself, except for maybe finding the wi-fi button on the >Roborock. Except for identifying the rooms on the map, the app seems >completely accessible. Looks like once we identify the rooms, I'll be >able to send it to a specific room to clean with the app or a voice >command. I set up the Siri shortcuts, so just with voice commands I can >start it cleaning, pause it, send it back to it's docking station and >change the strength of the suction. > >We've only run it through the house once, but it sucked up quite a bit >of dog and cat hair. It was pretty cool to see it navigate each room. >Now that it's been through the house once, I wonder if it'll be quicker >the next time, although except for the dining room with all of it's >chairs, it seemed to be pretty quick and smart. I'm looking forward to >having it stay on top of the pet hair throughout the week, especially >under the bed. I'm also hoping it'll help my wife with her allergies. > >-- >Christopher (AKA CJ) >Chaltain at Outlook > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of >Kay Malmquist >Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2022 7:23 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Roomba > >I will be interested in what you think. I also saw Mike's review and >thought seriously about buying the Roborock. Do you have any >recommendations as to the best place to buy one? Years ago, I had two >Roomba's, one for downstairs and one for up. I liked them and miss >them for the in-between vacuum jobs they did. > >Kay Malmquist >[email protected] > >Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of >its strength. >Corrie Ten Boom - 1892-1983 - Watchmaker > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Christopher Chaltain" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2022 5:35 PM >Subject: RE: Roomba > > >A few weeks ago Mike Arrigo <[email protected]> posted the following >review of several robot vacuum cleaners. I used this myself, and just a >few minutes ago, we let our Roborock start it's maiden voyage around our house. > >I remember a while back there was some discussion about the >accessibility of apps that are used to control robot vacuums. I now >have a small robot vacuum collection and have tried each brand's app so >I have an idea about which apps work the best with Voiceover. Some are >definitely better than others. >I'm going to group these in to three categories, accessible or mostly >accessible, that is, everything is well labeled or at least easy to use >with Voiceover's recognition abilities, useable but not the most >accessible, meaning you can use the app but some of the controls are >not labeled and you will have to memorize the order of where they are >on the screen, and mostly unuseable, that is, you will need sighted >help to do at least some things in the app since they are impossible to >do using voiceover. One other thing to note, many robots will map your >house and let you define rooms or no go zones by drawing on the map. >Unfortunately there is no way to do that using Voiceover with any of >these apps and I'm not even sure how that could be made accessible >since it involves drawing, so your choices are to get sighted help if >you want to use those features or just let the robot clean the entire place >each time which is what I do. >Ok, let's start with the most accessible category, these are in no >particular order. >The Irobot home app is used for the Roomba robots and works very well >with Voiceover. For the most part, everything is well labeled, there >are a few places where voiceover has to guess at what a control is but >it does describe those controls well. I had no problems setting up my >Roomba J7 Plus totally without sighted help. This app is very >interactive which I like, at times it will display tips and tricks or >ask you how the robot did on its last run and this is all completely >accessible. If you decide you want to get a Roomba you will have no trouble at >all using the app. >Next up is the Roborock app. As a side note, I think Roborock is one of >the best, if not the best brand of robot vacuums available, their >cleaning and navigation is excellent. I discovered something with this >app, I actually have two different Roborock models and the controls >read slightly differently depending on which robot you choose to >control from the home screen. This makes me wonder if the app is >actually downloading this content from the robot itself. Either way, >the app is very easy to use and navigate with voiceover. So, depending >on which Roborock model you choose to get, things may read slightly >different. For example, when I open the entry for the Roborock S4 Max >and come to the settings option, Voiceover says "settings." On the >other hand, when I choose the Roborock S7 Max V, which is Roborock's >current top of the line model and one that I would absolutely >recommend, the settings option says "possibly games, more." Once you >know that this opens the settings screen for the robot it works fine. >One other minor quirk about how the app reads, while in the settings >screen, if you turn a setting off, Voiceover says "off," but when you >enable a feature, rather than saying "on," Voiceover says "Open." Changing the >cleaning settings such as the suction power and mop intensity works fine. >On both the Irobot and Roborock apps, reading the battery level and >robot status works fine. The Irobot app will indicate if the battery is >high, medium or low, where as the Roborock app indicates the battery >level as a percentage. >The next app I will mention is the Eufy Home app. Eufy is a brand made >by Anker which is known for their power banks and battery chargers. >Eufy makes a line of robot vacuums called Robovac. Again, this app >works well with Voiceover. Getting my Robovac X8 connected to my >network worked fine and the controls for starting and stopping the >robot, as well as changing the suction power are completely accessible. >I prefer to run my robots on maximum power, I figure if the robot has >the power available, why not use it for a better clean? One minor quirk >about this app, there is no way that I know of to read the battery >level, you can tell if the robot is charging or fully charged but that's all. >Now we will move on to the second category. I currently only have one >app in this category, the app is useable but not as easy to use since >many of the buttons are unlabeled. The Trifo app fits this category. I >have the Trifo Lucy pet edition robot and this app is used to control >it. This app uses a different method to set up the network connection. >With most other robots, you enter your WI-FI network name and password >in to the app and then you connect your phone to a temporary network >that the robot creates and the app uses this to transfer the network >information to it. With the Trifo robots, you enter the network >information and the app creates a QR code that is displayed on your >phone's screen. You hold your phone's screen in front of the robot and >the robot's camera reads the QR code. I was able to get this to work >without sighted help but I had to turn off the screen curtain feature >of Voiceover. This app has a lot of buttons that are unlabeled so >Voiceover just says "button." The most important buttons, the start and >stop cleaning button and the button to return to the dock are unlabeled >as well as the buttons for map management and the button to change the >suction setting. I was able to figure out what each button does after >some experimentation but I definitely want to contact Trifo about this >and hopefully they will label these buttons appropriately. Changing the >suction to maximum works fine once you get to the right screen, it's a >percentage slider and I set mine to 100 percent for the highest setting. >Ok, now on to the remaining two apps that I have tried, I had to get >sighted help at different points in order to get these apps to work. >Let's start with the MII home app, this app is used to control several >different robots made by Dreametech and a few other brands. I have the >Dreametech L10 pro, creating an account and connecting the robot to my >network worked fine so again, I'm wondering if the app is downloading >the screens that are displayed from the robot itself once it's >connected, regardless it ends up the same. It's possible to get in to >the settings screen but when toggling options, it reads very strangely. >The check box that you need to double tap on to toggle each option is >after the option description and when you enable it, voiceover doesn't >say anything, when you disable it, voiceover says "plate." I had to get >sighted help to figure this out and I also needed sighted help to set >the suction power to maximum, you can get in to the cleaning settings >screen but Voiceover does not see the control for changing the suction >power at all, apparently it's a circle with each setting shown as a >larger fan, totally nonstandard. Once everything is set, you can read >the battery level and start and stop cleaning but even with this >control you can tell that Voiceover is guessing at what it is, it's not >labeled. When swiping through the screen, sometimes Voiceover does not >say anything. For these reasons I am considering this robot to be one of the >least accessible when using Voiceover though it does clean well. >The last app I will talk about is the Neabot app used to control the >Neabot Q11, again a very good robot as far as cleaning goes, but this >is the least accessible robot vacuum app I have used. I had to get >sighted help several times. First, creating an account is not possible >without sighted help because there is no way to access the Register" >item. Voiceover says "don't have an account yet? Register" and it sees >that as one item when it should be two items. Double tapping does not >work so you have to get sighted help to tap on "register" with >Voiceover turned off. After that creating the account works fine and >connecting the robot to the network can be done without sighted help >but once that is done, you really start to see the accessibility >issues. You can read the battery level and the "Start cleaning" option >works fine, but everything else is either completely unlabeled or even >when Voiceover tries to guess what something is, the descriptions are >not very helpful. With lots of patience you can get in to the main >robot settings screen which is where the firmware update option is, and >this also has problems. When there is a firmware update, Voiceover sees >the text describing the update, the cancel, and the update options all >as one item, this should be three. I was able to update the firmware by >turning Voiceover off and tapping towards the bottom right of the >screen but I think I was just lucky enough to tap in the right place. >Also, setting the suction to maximum required sighted help, Voiceover >does not see the control for changing the suction power at all. I have >contacted Neabot about these issues and never got a response. >So to finish this review, at this time the most accessible robot vacuum >apps I have tried are from Irobot, Roborock and Eufy. All of these >brands are good but Roborock is my favorite because of its excellent >cleaning and navigation. > >-- >Christopher (AKA CJ) >Chaltain at Outlook > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of >[email protected] >Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2022 2:53 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: Roomba > >Yep >iPhone app is accessible and it can be controlled by Google home or Alexa. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of >Mary Anne Lynskey >Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2022 1:02 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Roomba > >Good afternoon everyone. I am curious. Have any of you experience using >a Roomba? I recently ordered one from Amazon which has not arrived yet. >I am wondering if this is a viable option for someone who is totally >blind. How accessible is the app and how difficult is it to set up the app and >use it. >I know it can be controlled via the a lady. 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