Neato Botvac D5 Connected Review
Neato Botvac D5 is the mid-range option in the market and provide a function to control the robot anywhere via smartphone once connected to your Wifi network. Botvac D5 has the same features as the older and more expensive Botvac Connected and less $100.
Neato Botvac D5 Connected Review
Neato Botvac D5 is the mid-range option in the market and provide a function to control the robot anywhere via smartphone once connected to your Wifi network. Botvac D5 has the same features as the older and more expensive Botvac Connected and less $100. Size and appearance design for Neato Botvac D5 are very similar with the higher end Neato Botvac Connected. Compare with Neato Botvac D3 ,Botvac D5 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. Compare with Neato Botvac Conneted, D5 can clean up to 4500 square feet per cycle and only less 500 square feet than Conneted but much cheaper. 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 D5 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 only 500 square feet per cycle than Botvac Connected. But compare with Roomba 980, Roomba 980 has much better performance on carpets because of “Boost Carpet” feature but much expensive.
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
Helps Neato Botvac D5 to scan and map the room with high performance and provide the most efficient course to finish cleaning job in a short time.
SpinFlow Power Clean Technology
Use a combo brush and help to pick up hair and carpet easier. But compare with Roomba 980, Roomba 980 have better performance on carpet.
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 Corner Cleaning 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.
Automatically recharges and resumes
Runs for up to 90 minutes if the battery is fully charged.Neato Botvac D5 Connected will automatically return to its Base to recharge and resume cleaning as needed. Need to place the 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 D5 Design
The Neato Botvac D5 use a “D” shape to get into corners better and size and appearance design are very similar with The Neato Botvac Connected.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 |
- D5 vs D3: delivers a more “spotless” clean than the Botvac D3 Connected. Its main brush spans the width of the robot vacuum, allowing it to have a wider sweep.
- The side brush, the D-Shape and the CornerClever technology all help keep the corners and edges clean
- The Botvac D5 Connected is pricier than the Botvac D3 Connected but it has better features
- The D5 has a side brush that allows for better cleaning at wall edges or corners. It also uses ultra performance filters that traps smaller dirt and dust particles and works with boundary markers
- The D5 has a high-capacity lithium ion battery
- The D3 Connected, on the other hand, has no side brushes and no support for boundary markers
What’s more, the Botvac D5 can cover 2.5 times more floor area on a single charge compared to the D3 .The older Botvac Connected robot vacuum can cover 500 sq. ft. more floor area than the Botvac D5 connected. The Botvac Connected version also has “Eco” and “Turbo” mode (Eco can extend the battery life up to 2 full hours).
back to menu ↑How does Neato Botvac D5 work?
Neato Botvac D5 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. Neato Botvac D5 Connected cleans your room strategically instead of a random path.Here’s a look at how it does its job:
- At the start of a cleaning cycle, Neato Botvac D5 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 D5 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 D5 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
- Mid-range Neato
- Cheaper than Neato Botvac Connected
- 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
- Ultra performance filter
- Price is high
- No “Carpet Boost” Mode
- slightly larger noise
- Sometimes will be stuck
- Side brush will sweep some big solid fly
- Cost more time on clean the robot
- Occasionally drops WiFi signal
User Guidance & Neato Regular Care
The Neato Botvac D5 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.
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Packages and Accessories
The Neato Botvac D5 Connected Robot Vacuum, Charge Base, Combo Brush, Power Cord, Ultra Performance Filter, Side Brush, Lithium-Ion Battery, Boundary Markers,Brush and Filter Cleaning Tool 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 D5 has the same features as the older and more expensive Botvac Connected. Botvac Connected version has “Eco” and “Turbo” mode (Eco can extend the battery life up to 2 full hours) that Botva D5 haven’t but much lower price. Compare with D3 , Botvac D5 can cover 2.5 times more floor area on a single charge compared to the D3 and higher price. It provide WIFI connected function and with the help of wi-fi and application control, It can be considered to be the most Cost-effective One among Neato vacuum cleaner.
But the Neato Botvac D5 is not perfect because of the lower price .Occasionally it would miss the debris on the ground or lost wifi connected, 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 $300. If you don’t have many carpets and do not need the most rich feature you can choose Neato Botvac D5.
