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by dheera 537 days ago
I wonder why there haven't been more effort into roller-less vacuums. Shop vac style, just air, no exposed moving parts other than wheels.

For all of us who have no carpet, and pets that shed hair that tie up rollers, it would make perfect sense.

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I’m pretty sure mine doesn’t engage the rollers unless it’s on carpet, so that’s something.

Related, my second most hated aspect of it, is that it doesn’t empty its dust bin in mid-clean. Oh, it can empty its dust bin at the end, and it knows how to empty in mid-clean, because it empties it when it’s washing its mop (which it does know to do mid-clean, and you can even configure how many minutes it should go before re-washing.) But noooo, it has no idea that maybe its bin will get full and that it should empty it even without needing to wash the mop.

Because I have a German Shepherd and it can easily fill up its bin with dog hair after 10 minutes of carpet cleaning, and after that it’s just pushing clumps of dog hair around from one end of the room to another.

It’s so frustrating because the engineers did a great job of making the thing able to self-empty its bin in the first place, and thought enough to code for and allow configuration of mid-clean mop washing. But they didn’t connect the dots and consider that some people have large pets and may need the dust bin to get the same treatment as the mop.

If only their software was open source ... but probably some CEO insisted that they be closed source because of "competitors"
because current battery technology cannot support it