Neato Botvac Connected Review
The Neato Botvac Connected is the most expensive Neato yet and nearly more than $200 than the previous generation product but it has more power on suction and WIFI connected function
Neato Botvac Connected Review
Neato Botvac Connected is one of the top vacuum robot product in the market and provides a function to control the robot anywhere via smartphone once connected to your Wifi network. Size and appearance design for Neato Botvac Connected are very similar with “D” series, Compare Neato other “D” series, it has a great improvement on WIFI and clean capability. It performs very well especially on clean walls and corners with D sharp. WIFI connected help you to control you Neato robot from where you are, view maps of where your robot cleaned and view cleaning history for the last 21 cleanings and more. Although it’s expensive but worth the money and much cheaper than Roomba 980. If you want to do housework lazy, you should pay the cost of money. You can plan to make it start working from a centralized anywhere at any time, so you always see a clean ground in the home.
Key Features & Technologies
The Neato Botvac Connected brought professional care to home. And design to clean an entire level of your home, recharging and resuming until the job is done. It has good performance on carpets and rugs by new technologies. But compare with Roomba 980, Roomba 980 has much better performance on carpets because of “Boost Carpet” feature but much expensive.
LaserSmart Navigation Technology
LaserSmart Navigation technology helps the robot to finish the clean job in a short time.Breakthrough laser floor plan mapping and course navigation mean a deep, thorough, methodical cleaning in less time.
LaserSmart Mapping Technology
LaserSmart Mapping technology helps Neato Botvac Connected to scan and map the room with high performance and provide the most efficient course to finish cleaning job in a short time.
Positioning System Technology
With the Room Position System, Neato Botvac Connected can scan the room while cleaning and monitor any changes in room.
D Shape with CornerClever Tech
D sharp allows for a front-brush design with a 50% bigger brush than the competitions. It gets much closer to the walls and into corners. At the same time, Roomba 980 still have dirt bin and small size, it has good performance on cleaning corner too.
Automatically to switch models to vacuum all floor types
Neato Botvac Connected has various settings which allow you to customize how to clean your home and keeps carpets and hard floors clean. Carpet, pet hair, hard surfaces, dust, suction dirt, and even some large debris from your floors but it not suitable for clothing, toys, and other big objects. And home have many carpets, Roomba 980 has better performance.
Enhanced App to customize how to clean
Download the App and connect to your home WIFI, You can use a smartphone or tablet to have the best possible experience with it. Such as start, pause, reserve or cancel the cleaning job. Monitor the clean status and Set up time window for a clean job. Lets you connect to clean from anywhere, make presets to clean on a schedule, view maps of where your robot cleaned, view cleaning history for the last 21 cleanings and more.
Schedule Cleaning
You can schedule up to one cleaning for every day of the week.
Voice control capability & Facebook Messenger Chatbot control capability
Ask your Amazon Alexa device to start, stop, or dock your robot. Such As “Tell Neato to start cleaning”. Social media lovers can tell your Neato Botvac Connected by FaceBook Messenger no matter where you are.
Turbo/Eco Mode
Neato Botvac Connected provides two modes to clean you home. In Eco-mode, it will take more time to clean floor but much quieter. In Turbo-Mode the machine will use more power to finish cleaning job in a shorter time but will be noisier than ECO mode. The default cleaning mode is Turbo.
Automatically recharges and resumes
Runs for up to 120 minutes in Eco-mode and 90 minutes in Turbo-Mode, then automatically returns to its Home Base to recharge and resume cleaning as needed. Need to place the Home Base in An Open area and flat against a wall can help to clean more efficiently. Always keep the Home Base Plugged in and always connect wifi coverage.
Neato Botvac Connected Design
The Neato Botvac Connected use a “D” shape to get into corners better and size and appearance design are very similar with “D” series, Compare Neato “D” series, it has a great improvement on WIFI and capability.It’s at the top of the fuselage there is an LCD panel, four buttons, a large Home Button and a Sport Clean button.
Design on appearance
Among the largest is the clean button, next to two smaller, respectively is the Home button and key Spot patterns.When pressing the clean button, the Roomba will be awakened, and prompt after pressing it will begin to clean again. Click the Home button, after the Neato Botvac will return charging base; The Spot mode button allows the Roomba clean again and again in a fixed position.
Botvac Connected vs Botvac D5 vs Botvac D3 vs Botvac D80
The Neato Botvac Connected use a “D” shape to get into corners better and size and appearance design are very similar with “D” series, Compare Neato “D” series, it has a great improvement on WIFI and capability. We compare them with construction and performance to find the suitable one.
| Neato Botvac Connected | Botvac D5 | Botvac D3 | Botvac D80 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neato Product | ||||
| Robot Shape | D-Shape | D-Shape | D-Shape | D-Shape |
| WiFi-Conneted | Y | Y | Y | N |
| Entire Level Cleaning Map Base Navigation Scheduling Spot Clean Auto-Charge and Resume Control Panel | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Brush Types | Blade / Combo / Side | Combo / Side | Combo / Side | Blade / Combo / Side |
| Filter Type | Ultra Performance | Ultra Performance | Standard | High Performance |
| Control Panel | Screen & Button | Screen & Button | Screen & Button | Screen & Button |
| Warranty | 1 Year | 1 Year | 1 Year | 1 Year |
| Alexa Compatible | Y | N | N | N |
| Battery Type | Lithium-Ion | Lithium-Ion | Lithium-Ion | Ni-MH |
| Vacuuming Technology | SpinFlow / Turbo /Eco | SpinFlow | SpinFlow | SpinFlow |
How does Neato Botvac Connected work?
Neato Botvac Connected is designed to intelligently navigate and clean an entire level of your home but needs to remove excess clutter from floors before cleaning, After each use, empty the bin and clean the filter. Here’s a look at how it does its job:
- At the start of a cleaning cycle, Neato Botvac Connected uses LaserSmart Navigation and Mapping technology to scan and map the room with high performance and provide the most efficient course to finish cleaning job in a short time. Using this map, Roomba tracks where it has and has not been to ensure complete coverage.
- Neato Botvac Connected continues this process until it has cleaned an entire level of your home. Once Neato finishes its cleaning cycle, Neato returns to the Base to recharge.
- If the cleaning cycle hasn’t finished and the battery is low, Neato Botvac Connected will recharge itself by the return to the Base. After its battery has been recharged, Neato automatically resumes, completes the cleaning cycle, and returns to the Base.
- Cheaper Than Roomba 980
- Can clean up to 5000 square feet per cycle
- Can Provide a cleaning summary and coverage map
- Will not scratch any furniture
- Gentle touch comes at the expense of superior cleaning.
- 120-minute runtime
- Can Operate in the Dark
- Close to edges and around furniture
- Neato Botvac Connected don’t have physical remote control
- Price is high
- No “Carpet Boost” Mode
- slightly larger noise
- side brush will sweep some big solid fly
- Cost more time on clean the robot
User Guidance & Neato Regular Care
The Neato Botvac Connected is very easy to use. Just press the [WAKE UP] button to wake up it and start a cleaning cycle. It will clean an entire level of your home during one cleaning cycle. When the battery gets low before finishing the job, Neato Botvac Connected will return to BASE to recharge and automatically return to where it left off and continue to work until it finishes. To keep Neato Botvac Connected running at good performance, we need to regular to care the product. Such as empty the bin, clean the filter and clean the extractors when you found Neato picking up less debris.
| Neato Botvac Connected Part | Care Frequency | Replacement |
|---|---|---|
| Bin | After each use | - |
| Filter | Once per week (twice per week in homes with pets) | Every 2 months |
| Brush | Once every 2 weeks | - |
| Drop Sensor | Once per month | - |
| Top of Botvac | Once every 4 months (once every 3 months in homes with pets) | - |
Packages and Accessories
The Neato Botvac Connected Robot Vacuum, Charging Station, Combo Brush,1 Blade Brush, Ultra Performance Filter, Lithium-Ion Battery and User Manual in the box.
Choose Neato Genuine products from Authorized Resellers is the only way to protect your warranty. And unauthorized parts such as batteries, filter, and brushes may have a negative impact on product performance even damage your robot.
Warm Prompt
The Neato Botvac Connected is an electronic product and brings great help to home. In order to reduce the risk of injury and keep the Neato Botvac Connected running good, we need to keep following tips in mind.
- Product may not be used with any type of power converter. Use of other power converters will immediately void the warranty.
- Use only accessories and replacement parts are Neato Genuine parts. used 3rd parties may have a negative impact on product performance and can cause damage to your robot and also void your robot’s warranty.
- Don’t sit or stand on this device.
- Don’t pick up any burning or smoking objects
Conclusion
The Neato Botvac Connected is the most expensive Neato yet and nearly more than $200 than the previous generation product but it has more power on suction and WIFI connected function. With the help of wi-fi and application control, It can be considered to be one of the great robots among Neato vacuum cleaner. You can plan to make it start working from a centralized anywhere at any time, so you always see a clean ground in the home.
But the Neato Botvac Connected is not perfect because of the high price you can choose the other generations with lower price and without remote controls but similar function. Occasionally it would miss the debris on the ground, you may need to take on the ground before it starts to work may be in the way. In contrast, Roomba 980’s “carpet boost” feature is better than Neato Botvac Connected but the price is high nearly $200. If you don’t have many carpets you can choose Neato Botvac Connected.
