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Design
The X11 is the aforesaid size arsenic the prior-generation X9, coming successful astatine 3.86 inches tall. I've tested respective robot vacuums now, and that's connected the thinner side. It tin get nether astir each of my furniture, including my stove, to vacuum successful areas that are often untouched.
Height is the astir important metric erstwhile it comes to robot vacuums, but if you person a batch of tightly spaced furniture, you besides request to see width. The X11 is astir 13.8 inches across, and it could beryllium excessively ample for smaller apartments.
Underneath the vacuum, there's a roller bar, a mop, a brushwood that gets into nooks and crannies on baseboards, a canister for particulate and debris, and interior areas for cleanable and soiled h2o for mop washing and cleaning. You tin entree the particulate canister by removing the apical sheet of the robot and undoing the latch.
Exterior vacuum plan didn't alteration overmuch betwixt the X9 and the X11, but the X11's basal presumption is wholly different. It's importantly larger than earlier due to the fact that it includes a reusable canister for particulate alternatively of a bag.
The canister is wherefore the X11 has its "Omnicyclone" name. It reminds maine of a Dyson-style vacuum canister, and it's built close into the mediate of the basal station. You tin popular it retired and bare it into the trash, past instrumentality it close backmost in. Large chunks of debris tin get stuck, truthful arsenic with a Dyson, the canister tin request cleaning astatine times. There is nary request to bargain bags with the X11, which does marque it basal retired from different robot vacuums connected the market.
Along with the vacuum canister, the basal presumption houses a 2.7-liter soiled h2o vessel and a 3.2-liter cleanable h2o tank. The h2o tanks are larger than the tanks successful the X9, which means little maintenance. I capable the cleanable h2o vessel less, and I effort to retrieve to bare the soiled h2o vessel regularly due to the fact that it tin get smelly if it sits.
Inside the basal station, there's a spot to adhd cleaning fluid. The X11 supports 2 kinds of cleaning fluid, 1 for modular cleaning and 1 for heavy cleaning. Two cleaning fluid options are much costly and much of a hassle, truthful I'm not a instrumentality of the dual cleaning. Ecovacs recommends that you usage Ecovacs cleaning fluid, and it sells the 2 variants.
Setup and Maintenance
Setting up the X11 is straightforward capable that anyone tin bash it. There's a single-page startup usher that has casual instructions connected putting the basal presumption components together, past it's conscionable a substance of filling the h2o tank, downloading the app, turning connected the robot, and pursuing the app steps for pairing.
The X11 is elemental capable that idiosyncratic not technologically inclined could run it, but the fig of app settings and analyzable features similar dependable activation could beryllium confusing. None of those features are required, and it tin cleanable connected default settings, but if you person older parents who conflict with electronics and bargain this (or immoderate robot vacuum) for them, you're going to get calls for troubleshooting.
There is attraction to instrumentality attraction of, similar occasionally replacing the rollers and brushwood with parts purchased from Ecovacs. The site sells a bundle that includes a caller roller brush, 3 filters and 2 broadside brushes for $60, and a caller roller mop is $35.
Vacuuming
The X11 has the strongest suction of immoderate robot vacuum that I've tried. It is fantabulous astatine picking up favored hair, dust, and debris connected my hardwood and tile floors. I started tossing a fistful oregon 2 of ungraded connected the level to spot however overmuch robot vacuums tin cleanable up, and the X11 got astir each of it successful the archetypal pass.
Robot vacuums are meant to cleanable regularly alternatively than deeply, which is wherefore it's not an perfect test, but it does springiness maine a wide metric to comparison by.
According to Ecovacs, the X11 has 19,000 Pa suction and it uses the aforesaid Blast strategy (multi-stage suction and airflow) from anterior Ecovacs robots. It's much suction than the X9, which I already thought worked well, and much suction than the Roborock vacuum I usage regularly. If you person hard floors and pets oregon kids, it's bully astatine getting up adjacent hint amounts of favored hair, and it doesn't miss crumbs successful the kitchen.
There's a broadside brushwood for sweeping on baseboards and successful corners, and it's capable to get astir ungraded and fur up. You'll privation to manually vacuum successful corners each truthful often, but it's not a concern wherever the X11 is vacuuming the main country of a country and pushing particulate to the sides. It is capable to usage the added broadside brushwood and the improved suction to bash a passable occupation keeping hard to scope areas clean.
Ecovacs' robots person a ZeroTangle brush, and it works. I person agelong hair, my spouse has agelong hair, and we person 2 cats. I haven't seen the brushwood get tangled up with hair, and I've ne'er had to fuss with it.
The X11 is capable to get implicit higher thresholds than anterior Ecovacs robots, truthful if you person a gangly threshold that different robots can't handle, the X11 mightiness beryllium capable to navigate it. It tin spell implicit thresholds arsenic precocious arsenic 2.4cm (0.95 inches). It tin get into a bath that has a higher than mean threshold, but different country with a babe gross has a threshold excessively precocious for it to overcome. I decidedly announcement a quality betwixt the X11 and the older X9 erstwhile it comes to threshold navigation.
Despite stronger suction, the X11 isn't louder than anterior models, measuring successful astatine astir 62 dBA successful tests. I wouldn't privation to slumber portion the X11 is running, but I tin enactment portion it's connected if I enactment successful my AirPods Pro to artifact retired the noise. Emptying the vacuum into the canister astatine the basal presumption is the loudest enactment that it performs (close to 80 dBA), truthful support that successful caput erstwhile positioning the basal station.
The X11 is 1 of the quieter robot vacuums that I've tried successful presumption of consecutive vacuuming and cognition sound, and it has a mode that makes it adjacent quieter. Turning down the suction level volition besides help.
Mopping
Like Ecovacs' prior-generation high-end robots, the X11 has a roller mop alternatively than 2 rotating mopping pads. I americium a instrumentality of this plan due to the fact that it continually removes soiled water, truthful it's washing the level with cleanable water.
It sprays h2o onto the mop, cleans the floor, and squeezes the soiled h2o into a postulation vessel earlier starting the process implicit again. With this version, the roller extends retired further, truthful it tin get into corners. It's besides expected to person stain-detecting AI to spell implicit a soiled country again, and I've seen this enactment arsenic agelong arsenic definite AI cleaning modes are enabled.
With bedewed stains, the X11 tin get a messiness successful 1 go. A squirt of ketchup connected the floor, for example, gets wiped up with a azygous cleaning. With dried-on stains, it tin instrumentality a fewer passes. I tested dried ketchup, and needed to person the robot spell implicit it 3 times to get each speck up. Anecdotally, the X11 seems to beryllium amended astatine getting up things similar dried up feline nutrient successful less passes than anterior Ecovacs robots.
Every truthful often, the X11 returns to the basal presumption to lavation the mop with blistery water, and erstwhile a cleaning is finished, it's dried with blistery air.
I wouldn't expect immoderate robot vacuum to get a level wholly spotless successful 1 cleaning, but play cleanings paired with regular cleanings successful circumstantial areas similar the room support the floors clean.
Time
Cleaning 2,000 quadrate feet takes the X11 astir 5 hours connected the modular mounting with 1 pass, though that tin alteration depending connected the fig of passes that it's instructed to marque erstwhile mopping, however often it empties the vacuum and washes the mop, and however acold it is from the basal station. That clip is reasonably modular for the robot vacuums that I've tested, though immoderate volition instrumentality longer due to the fact that of agelong periods for charging.
I find it utile to acceptable up scheduled cleanings with the Ecovacs app oregon the Home app. I docket the X11 to cleanable 1 country of the location per day, which keeps the level cleanable but doesn't taxable maine to listening to a vacuum tally for hours connected end. It tin beryllium acceptable to cleanable aft repast times oregon much often conscionable successful precocious postulation areas, which is helpful.
Navigation and AI
When you acceptable up the X11 for the archetypal time, it maps each country successful your location anterior to cleaning. You tin spot the representation arsenic it goes, and it's wide that the lidar sensor astatine the beforehand works well. It made a cleanable representation of my house, though dissimilar immoderate different robot vacuums, it doesn't observe furnishings and adhd those items to the representation automatically, nor is it large astatine labeling rooms.
It tin observe immoderate thresholds, but it's champion to spell successful and edit the representation to marque changes. My location has an open-concept main area, and it wasn't capable to separate betwixt the kitchen, eating room, and surviving room, and it besides merged 1 chamber with those areas. In my office, it wasn't capable to archer the bath from the main bureau area, I accidental due to the fact that it didn't observe the door.
The X11 is bully astatine obstacle avoidance, utilizing a camera-based sensor strategy for entity detection. It hasn't tally straight into anything, and it is amended astatine not getting trapped by furniture. It knows wherever walls are, wherever furnishings legs are, and it tin observe and debar items connected the level similar cables, socks, pets, and more. It doesn't spot smaller items similar LEGO bricks, and it tin suck those up.
Some vacuums volition statement the in-app representation with items that person been detected truthful you tin spell successful and archer them whether to debar that point successful the future. The X11's entity detection is much behind-the-scenes, truthful I don't get a readout of what it's avoiding.
It's bully astatine navigating the house, though I did spot it get inexplicably mislaid 1 time. It mightiness person been that the hallway was excessively dark, but it couldn't find its mode backmost to the dock successful different room.
The AI successful the X11 is much transparent than successful anterior models, and I tin amended support way of what the robot is doing, wherefore it's doing it, wherever it's cleaned, wherever it hasn't cleaned, and wherever entree was blocked by a closed doorway oregon different obstacle.
Rugs
I've been frustrated with the mode the Ecovacs robots grip tiny rugs, and there's nary alteration with the X11 Omnicyclone. It regularly gets trapped connected the rugs successful bathrooms and thin, soft-backed rugs connected my wood floors that don't person grip. It besides cannot grip tassels. By "trapped," I mean that the roller vacuum sucks up the rug and can't merchandise it, truthful I'm forced to spell propulsion it retired and acceptable the vacuum to proceed cleaning.
To beryllium fair, Ecovacs does urge picking up smaller rugs and tucking tassels distant underneath the rug to debar these issues, but that's a hassle. It's annoying to person to hole the vacuum erstwhile it sucks up a rug, and it's annoying to person to instrumentality the clip to determination everything retired of the mode each clip it's running. Having to regularly determination rugs makes it much hard to automate and docket cleanings.
With bigger, thicker rugs anchored by furniture, the X11 works with nary issue. I person 1 rug that sheds similar brainsick adjacent 2 years aft I bought it. Sometimes the X11 volition permission down a large shot of rug fuzz, but each of my vacuums bash that. My Dyson can't adjacent cleanable that rug without getting clogged.
There is different rug successful my laundry country that is an implicit ungraded and lint magnet, and the X11 tin get each speck of particulate disconnected of it. I'm satisfied with however good it cleans rugs, but it needs to beryllium amended astir not getting stuck.
Battery
The X11 has a fast-charging diagnostic wherever the robot tin spell backmost to the basal presumption and speedy complaint for astir 10 minutes. For a ample home, this means that there's nary multi-hour intermission successful cleaning.
With anterior Ecovacs robots, determination would beryllium a agelong interruption for charging successful the mediate of a cleaning. With the X11, it cleaned for six hours consecutive with lone little stops to speedy charge.
Ecovacs recommends the accelerated complaint strategy for homes that are implicit 2,000 quadrate feet, and determination is an enactment to crook it disconnected for smaller homes. Faster charging works well, and it sets the X11 isolated from different vacuums. If you person a ample home, it's a crushed to see this exemplary implicit different options.
Ecovacs App
Even if you're readying to usage the X11 with the Home app and done ‌Siri‌ dependable commands, you request the Ecovacs app. It's the lone spot to negociate the many, galore settings that are disposable for the vacuum, and it houses the representation the robot uses for navigation.
There are settings to set the vacuum suction, mopping h2o level, noise, and acceptable up antithetic types of cleaning specified arsenic after-meal cleaning, regular cleaning, and heavy cleaning. You tin acceptable up customized scenarios for aboriginal one-touch cleanings, customize charging and presumption settings, set settings for carpet, presumption cleaning logs, and more. There's much than I tin spell implicit successful a review, but if you get an Ecovacs robot, expect to walk a half-hour oregon truthful going done the options selecting your preferred parameters.
The X11 has an AI cleaning mode that incorporates cleaning past and preferences that you set. You tin customize it with earthy connection commands, and it's meant to larn implicit time. It's caller to this model, and it wasn't a diagnostic that was disposable successful anterior Ecovacs robots I've reviewed.
The AI mode is listed successful the app arsenic "Agent Hosting," and you tin pat connected it alternatively of "Start" erstwhile opening a cleaning. The AI volition analyse your anterior cleaning, instrumentality into relationship your app settings and preferences you've provided, and past set its settings connected its ain to cleanable the house.
I've had mixed results with it, but I'm inactive moving connected customization. The archetypal clip I utilized it, it determined that the surviving country hadn't been cleaned for 7 days, truthful it proceeded to cleanable it for similar 3 hours (two passes) adjacent though it wasn't soiled (the X11 hadn't vacuumed the level successful a week due to the fact that I had). There is an AI diagnostic that's expected to announcement messes and bash different pass, but it intelligibly wasn't utilizing that erstwhile evaluating however to clean.
The AI cleaned for 5.5 hours, and due to the fact that it was doing treble passes everywhere, it didn't get the task finished. I had to crook it disconnected astatine astir 11 p.m., and I wasn't capable to resume the cleaning the adjacent time due to the fact that it can't prime up a task if the intermission is much than a fewer hours.
In different tests, the AI performed amended and selected tenable cleaning parameters for assorted rooms, successfully executing a cleaning. I similar that I tin spot what the AI is reasoning and travel on arsenic it completes each task, but determination is simply a large contented I've tally into. For immoderate reason, the X11 has the incorrect time. I started a cleanable astatine 2:30 p.m., and it thought it was 2:30 a.m. Another time, it was astir 11:00 a.m., and it thought it was 11:00 p.m. The clip is an contented due to the fact that it volition set suction to debar being excessively large if it's precocious astatine night.
The AI cleaning enactment is utile wide if you don't privation to messiness with settings for each clean, but it besides takes clip and effort to bid it with your preferences. Luckily, plain aged "Start" launches a modular cleanable wherever you tin prime the options that you want.
There's besides a "Yiko" dependable adjunct that you tin usage to nonstop the X11 to clean. It's been contiguous successful the past respective Ecovacs robots, but I don't usage it often. Yiko isn't ace responsive erstwhile I effort to activate it, doesn't recognize immoderate elemental commands, and doesn't bash capable wherever I tin usage it alternatively of the app.
Home App
The X11 has Matter integration, truthful it connects to the Home app. You lone get a fewer controls successful the Home app, but it's capable to run it connected a basal level.
You tin person the robot vacuum oregon vacuum and mop, selecting the full location oregon conscionable a azygous room. You tin besides take from a modular cleanable oregon a heavy cleanable for 2 mopping passes alternatively of one. The app volition fto you cognize if there's an error, specified arsenic erstwhile the h2o vessel needs to beryllium filled up. You tin besides play a dependable truthful you tin find the robot if it gets itself stuck determination successful the house.
Matter integration is utile for the ‌Siri‌ dependable commands and for automations. You tin usage the Ecovacs app for mounting schedules, oregon bash it done the Home app if you privation to usage geofencing (such arsenic having the robot cleanable erstwhile you permission home) oregon brace it with different ‌HomeKit‌ accessories.
Siri
I don't often usage the Home app with robot vacuums, but I similar being capable to usage ‌Siri‌. There are HomePods successful the main areas of my house, truthful I tin accidental thing similar "Hey ‌Siri‌, cleanable the kitchen" if I hap to beryllium successful the room and announcement crumbs connected the floor.
When I archetypal utilized a robot vacuum with ‌HomeKit‌, I was skeptical that it would beryllium useful, but it's been a convenience. I wouldn't needfully bargain a robot vacuum conscionable for the Matter integration, but if determination are 2 robots with akin features and lone 1 has Matter, I'm going to take the Matter version.
I americium hoping that Matter integration with products similar the Omnicyclone X11 gets adjacent amended erstwhile Apple introduces the caller mentation of ‌Siri‌ that it's been moving on, and erstwhile the rumored location hub comes out.
Bottom Line
The X11 has the strongest AI functionality of a robot vacuum that I've tested, and speech from its mediocre show with bladed rugs, it's the champion vacuum that I've tried truthful far. I admit that the X11's AI tin larn my cleaning preferences and adjust, but sometimes a elemental scheduled cleaning with pre-set parameters is amended than AI. There's a batch of redundancy successful the Ecovacs app with the enactment to usage AI, modular settings, oregon the Yiko dependable assistant, and it tin beryllium confusing. I'd similar to spot streamlining successful the future.
Matter integration isn't needfully a crushed to bargain 1 robot vacuum implicit another, but it is utile if you person a batch of Apple devices and thin to usage ‌Siri‌ dependable commands for astute location devices.
The X11 isn't leagues up of the X8 and X9 erstwhile it comes to cleaning performance, but determination are a fewer features that could beryllium a crushed to see it alternatively of different robot vacuum. If there's a threshold successful your location that different vacuums can't climb, there's a bully accidental the X11 tin navigate it. It's the lone robot vacuum I've tested that has a vacuum enclosure you tin empty, eliminating the request for vacuum bags.
For larger homes, the alteration to charging makes a quality successful however rapidly cleaning gets done, and it prevents frustrating multi-hour pauses. Fast charging could beryllium worthy the outgo if you person a location larger than 2,000 quadrate feet.
If you don't request those features, Ecovacs' X8 and X9 robots cleanable good too, and are disposable astatine a little price.
How to Buy
The X11 Omnicyclone tin beryllium purchased from the Ecovacs website oregon from Amazon for $1,499.99, but determination is simply a promo codification for $200 disconnected astatine the existent time, which is listed connected the website. There are regular income connected Ecovacs vacuums, truthful don't bargain 1 astatine afloat price.
This article, "Ecovacs Deebot X11 Omnicyclone Review: HomeKit Robot Vacuum With Bagless Design and Fast Charging" archetypal appeared connected MacRumors.com
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