roborock Q5+ Robot Vacuum with Self-Empty Dock, Hands-Free Cleaning for up to 7 Weeks, 2700Pa Max Suction, 180mins Max Run-Time, Compatible with Alexa, Perfect for Hard Floors, Carpets, and Pet Hair

It cleans especially well. This means the one disposable dust bag it comes with will fill up quickly so immediately buy dust bin bags-you will need them fast. Be sure you get the RoboRock app to set it up with. Setup is easy and essential using the app. Alexa or Google integration is a breeze. It is fairly quiet on balanced suction mode, and not really so loud on turbo. You MUST manually empty the dust bin in the Q5+ if it fills during cleaning and that is a real possibility if you have a lot of square feet. It will dock due to low battery or being full and upon docking it will empty by itself. However if during its cleaning cycle, it gets full, it will not sense this nor return to dock to empty. You MUST empty the dust bin-easy enough to do using the app. Dust bin contents are sucked into the dust bin back when docked and you manually choose empty dust bin. You have to let it run and do its thing. The best thing: set room mapping up and let it run around to map your floor. Then it will clean. Doing mapping first is easy and fast. You have to save maps of rooms/floors by setting save on-you toggle it to "on" and then you map. You can set up tasks meaning you can have it clean one room then go back to dock to empty and this is a good thing because it most likely will not overfill from one room and you need not manually empty it. Create three or four tasks and with each completed task, it will go back to dock and empty. If you do not do tasks, and you try to clean 1200 square feet, it WILL fill up and you MUST intervene and tell it to go back to dock to empty it. I run it 2x a day for 1200 feet and no matter what I do, it fills up before it is done cleaning. I have no idea where it comes from but the bin gets full about half way through. There is no way to get around this. This device picks up ever-so-fine dust, and dirt-better than with a vacuum. The big clumps of hair if you have dogs...not so much but these are visible and easily picked up after the device has left them behind during its runs. It just cleans and cleans!Let me go back to cleaning. It does this well. I am surprised how much small stuff it picks up. It picks up dog hair, etc. well. It seems to pick up dirt I cannot even see or notice. With a full charge, you may get 1200 square feet; I do with about 15% battery left. If not, it will go back to charge on the dock when it gets to 19% low. My plan: let it work using tasks (you can set a room or floor schedule) and let it charge and by the morning, empty the dust bin by using that option via the app, and let it clean again a floor where you do not have activity or where people are not at home or around (bedrooms for example). I say work it; run it daily. I have a good vac; I vacuumed Wed, and it is Sun and it is shocking to see what it has been picking up in the dust bin. If you have a dog or cat, this is the move. I am not saying it will pick up long hair but the short hair and dander, yes it 100% will. It cleans under the beds (yay!) and under furniture where it fits. It is not an industrial vac. It most likely won't and should not be used to pick up wood chips, etc. around a wood stove, nor should it be used to pick up large particulate matter. It does pick up coins without any noise or damage so that it great if you miss a coin on the carpet or floor. I can use Alexa ("Alexa, tell Roborock to empty the dust bin" or "Alexa, tell Roborock to start cleaning" or "Alexa, tell Roborock to dock") for basic commands. If you have a spill, you will have to experiment to get the unit to clean it up; it looks like if you press the home button on the device, it cleans within a 10-foot radius. It will just try to clean in rows so you will just have to try it out for spot cleaning. It may be a pain to get it to do that. I can't imagine people with pets not having this or one of the Roomba pet hair cleaning units. This is going to save me so much work. I am not getting any younger. I thought "Why deny myself technology?" so I got it on sale. I highly recommend meaning for me it matched my expectations and needs and easily so.One last thing: the roller will clog with wrap-around hair. It is easy to take out and clean BUT you MUST put the roller brush cover on exactly meaning there are four tabs and two go in manually at a bit of an angle and the other side of the roller brush cover has two clips that go back into place when you pinch them. IF you see any of the four tabs, you do not have it in place correctly. This shows up when you try to empty the unit. It will not empty. You will hear it try but it will not because the suction is too low because the roller brush cover is not completely installed/inserted. You may find the unit telling you you are attempting too many empty commands and it will ignore your commands to empty the dust bin if you find you had the roller brush cover on loosely. The way around this is to take out the dust bin and with a flashlight locate the reset hole (use a pin). It is well-hidden. When you find it, put in the button while also holding the home or power button. This resets the device. You have to readd your unit to wifi (not 5 but 2.4) and be sure your phone's wifi for this is on the 2.4 band. Reattach the unit to your 2.4 wifi and you will be good to go. The unit will start recognizing the empty command and with the roller brush cover on correctly (no tabs showing), you will see the unit empty its dust bin. All maps, etc. are saved in the app. Only the unit gets reset. The bags are really easy to change. I filled that "7-week" bag in a week. That is how good the unit is. I have run it 3x a day and I still pick up dirt. I have no idea how or why but I do breathe easier now without any decongestants, and the house is clean! Any vacuum clogs and needs cleaning. This unit is no different. It is maintenance. After a week or so, you get the hang of it.I did not get the combo mop unit because I can do that with another machine. I wanted a dust bin that was 100% for dirt pickup. It works. It works well. I am getting another for the second floor with carpet and with carpet, the unit senses this and goes into turbo mode to clean. For hardwood, it does not have to do that. There are four speeds. Night is quietest. Balanced is good. I like that setting. The wrap-up: run this a couple of times a day (why not?) and pause your cleaning via the app after 30 minutes or so to return it to dock and empty. Or use tasks. No one is going to get 1200 square feet cleaned in one pass without emptying. That is a good thing. This device picks up! For real!

Update Dec 2024: Keep getting error 1 message which has to do with the Lidar turret being dirty or something jammed and preventing it from swiveling freely ( hair or debris). Cleaned it as best I could, even vacuumed the area with a hand held vacuum. Still giving me this error 1 message. Major issue as Error 1 prevents the vacuum from working at all.So I go on Youtube where they have videos on how to access certain parts of the roborock to clean them in depth. Turns out the Lidar turret is a very easy thing to access and clean on all the models BEFORE the Q5+. The previous models can have their cover taken off easily and Lidar accessed via just a few screws to clean thoroughly.There are no videos on how to do this with The Q5+ because there is no way to take the top cover off !! So now I have a useless vacuum that doesn’t work just because Roborock has decided to adopt the ‘planned obsolescence’ approach. I would not buy from them again just because of this issue unless they make all parts of the machine accessible to clean properly once again in their newer models.Writing this after 1.5 years of use Nov 2024. After reading reviews I went with this vacuum in 2023. I read how this was a more powerful vacuum good for pet hair and that while being a bit more noisy that it did a great job on that front and with bigger debris. 100 % agree with this.I don’t mind it being a bit louder if this means it does a good job.I mostly use it on tile and it does great. It automatically changes to a more powerful suction when going over a carpeted or thicker surface.It’s so powerful it sucks up socks and entire apple phone charger cables. It will actually keep running and still vacuum with those stuck inside ! It just goes on constant powerful mode and so that is the indicator to flip it over and check.The one grievance is that in Aug/Sept ‘24 somehow it stopped being connected to the internet and no longer worked through the Roborock App with the Z With no warning, explanation or notification email from the manufacturer.. (This was the app that was instructed to use at set up.) It would just not connect to the wifi network no matter what I tried , I tried every trouble shooting tip the internet suggested. So it’s been running fine in manual mode but I couldn’t control it from the app or see any maps etc.After going through the online manual in search of more answers. I noticed they mentioned something about Xiomi Home app so I downloaded it and proceeded to add the roborock to that, following the prompts. Low and behold it worked and had my house map saved on there and everything!!So anyone with a Roborock Q5 + having internet connectivity problems, this may be a helpful tip! I just wish they had been better on the communication with this update.Other than that it’s been 1.5 years of ownership and it’s been great. At times the mapping gets finnicky but you just have to let it go back to the dock and after a few times it updates the map. I bought the reusable dust bags with zipper to avoid too much waste. Also bought replacement roller brush and feeler brush to have on hand when they need replacing. both items are easy to find on amazon.All in all, if they continue to upgrade the software and apps, the full functionality will last a long time!