First to Lieferumfgang:
In the box are all necessary parts are to be operational by now. The Roomba, its charging station, a virtual barrier, permanent filter, cleaning comb, battery, manuals (hard copy, which already has become a rarity, with view on the HP also useful videos for handling leave)
To operate:
After the first battery charge a large round button lights up permanently "Clean". So once press it and he gets going. 2 more keys there are "spot" for a short local cleaning and "Dock" so the Roomba moves back to the charging station.
In this model there is no timer functions and that's not so bad. At first I was skeptical about whether you can do without it, because I had the fantasy, you simply put the timer on sometime when you're not at home anyway and always come back to a clean apartment, but there probably eh nothing comes of it. Because whether or not timer, the robot vacuum cleaners are unfortunately a bit stupid. Or rather, they behave like puppies. You can find everywhere something to play with. My apartment has no carpets and no exposed cables and sensitive objects, so is quite friendly robot. But something he always finds the tangled, be it even a cord of the blind or the laptop cable or speaker connection or your foot off the barstool, which just is not perpendicular to the top but has a conical shape. And in those moments, I am always glad to be present. Once rid of the little boys, and then, of course, to avoid worse. He has already killed a bedside lamp. It was fortunately "only" a fair bit of IKEA for 9, - but when he pulls me 1.5t laptop off the desk, where the fun stops. Yet it also has something very uplifting, like a Prussian general to proceed with the inspection troops, in addition to the Roomba forth and watch him while brushing (for all the do not have a hobby).
In addition, you have to be clear, it is neither the furniture side back to draw behind, still get into small spaces, yet see the mini-lint on which he drove 3 times just past and it always a few centimeters away has blown.
He drives really just back and forth, brushing, sweeping and sucking and when he's done he has loaded a handful of dust and hair that just now lay on the floor. He is more thorough than the manual labor, but he supports them so far that you have significantly less ran itself and in the meantime (the claim) does the apartment to some well-kept. Especially since the threshold is lower use it vorzuholen as the big sucker.
Conclusion:
For me as a single professionals with robot friendly household and comparatively low expectations of my floor care device is very useful in the expected scope. I do not want to miss him, but subtract a star because I think the sensor for improvement (often too insensitive) and the side brush was broken after a few hours of operation (I was indeed quickly and easily helped by iRobot by I, a new module for Even exchange sent was, but given the 20 hours you can probably not yet speak of an acceptable wear characteristics)
All interested I can recommend the unit and would even explicitly advised to refrain from the timer.
Let your Roomba better not alone !!
(And if you look at the still dares, one can also simply press itself on the Clean button in front of leaving the house, then you can at least advance again make sure that you have not forgotten anything to get to safety. The money for this almost dangerous Automatic really can save).
