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I reviewed the X8 Pro Omni earlier this year, and I've been utilizing the X9 Pro Omni for implicit 3 months now. For thing this expensive, I wanted to marque definite that I extensively tested it earlier sharing an opinion. The X9 Pro Omni is simply a Matter-enabled robot vacuum, truthful it connects to the Apple Home app. It tin beryllium controlled with the Home app, the Ecovacs app, oregon Siri dependable commands.
Design
In a batch of ways, it's hard to separate the X9 Pro Omni from the X8. The existent plan of the robot is similar, though determination are respective changes. There are immoderate insignificant updates to the plan of the mopping pad and the main brush, and the broadside brushwood has a caller design. There's besides an update to the plan of the apical cover, but the 2 vacuums are different identical successful size and are adjacent successful function.
The X9 Pro Omni is 13.9 inches wide and 3.85 inches tall, and these are important dimensions to consider. If a batch of your furnishings is shorter than that, the robot isn't going to beryllium capable to get underneath it. And 13.9 inches is the width that it needs for navigating doorways, astir tricky furniture, and successful different choky spaces. This isn't the smallest robot vacuum connected the market, and it is taller than the Saros 10R from Roborock. The Saros 10R tin get underneath each of my furniture, but I person a TV basal and a mates different pieces of furnishings that are excessively debased for the X9 Pro Omni. I've learned that slimmer and smaller decidedly helps for a thorough clean, but determination inactive has to beryllium abstraction for a particulate container and water, truthful it's a balancing act.
The X9 Pro basal presumption received a overmuch much important plan update than the robot, and it's the crushed wherefore I'd perfectly take the X9 implicit the X8 if I were going to bargain a robot vacuum from Ecovacs. The X9 basal presumption is respective inches smaller than the X8 version, and it has a modern, streamlined look. It takes up little vertical space, and the 2 h2o containers are hidden away. It's besides not rather arsenic wide.
Design wise, the X9 Pro Omni basal presumption makes the X8 Pro Omni basal presumption look clunky and outdated. These basal stations can't beryllium hidden distant due to the fact that they request to beryllium easy accessible for the robot, truthful I admit the refined plan for thing that has a salient spot successful my bathroom. It's a large improvement.
Function
Ecovacs says the X9 Pro Omni has 16,600 suction Pa, which connected insubstantial is little than the X8 Pro Omni. I haven't noticed a quality successful performance, though. It's inactive capable to get each the dust, dirt, and feline hairsbreadth disconnected of my floors and retired of my rugs.
I person wood flooring and nary carpet, truthful I can't thoroughly reappraisal however it performs connected carpeting. If you person carpet, you're going to privation to work further reviews from radical who person utilized it extensively connected carpet. I person a mates ample rugs and immoderate smaller rugs scattered passim the house, and it's capable to cleanable them well. I person a rug that sheds similar crazy, and I consciousness similar the X9 Pro is capable to bash a amended occupation than my Dyson vacuum, which conscionable gets clogged. Ecovacs says that the X9 Pro Omni gets 137 percent much particulate retired of carpets than the X8, but I can't rather archer due to the fact that of however small carpet I have.
I bash not similar however the X9 Pro Omni performs with smaller rugs. It truly struggles with a thinner rug that I person that has fringe connected the edges. It gets stuck perpetually successful that rug, truthful overmuch truthful that I yet conscionable made that rug a no-go zone. On much important rugs that person a rubber backing to clasp them successful place, it's capable to execute amended and doesn't get itself stuck, but similar astir of the robot vacuums, it'll determination the rugs astir a little.
If you person thinner rugs that bash not person a rubber backing connected them (I person respective of these due to the fact that I don't privation to harm my wood floors), past the X9 Pro Omni volition beryllium a headache. I blocked it from immoderate of my rugs and others I prime up earlier it runs. The X8 Pro was the aforesaid way, truthful there's been nary improvement. For comparison's sake, the Saros 10R from Roborock is capable to navigate those kinds of rugs good capable not to get itself tangled up constantly.
I person nary different issues with the vacuuming. I person a batch of houseplants and I person had a ungraded spill oregon two, and it has nary problems with that. It besides leaves nary hint of feline hair. The broadside brushwood is designed to get into corners and astir furniture, and it works good keeping the country adjacent the baseboards clean. I haven't noticed a large quality betwixt the cleaning of the X9 Pro and the X8 Pro contempt the updated broadside brushwood design.
There's besides a caller main brushwood that Ecovacs is calling ZeroTangle 3.0, up from 2.0. I person ne'er had the brushwood connected 1 of the Ecovacs robots tangle up. I person agelong hair, my spouse has agelong hair, and 1 of my 2 cats has agelong hair, but I haven't had to propulsion retired the brushwood to region hairsbreadth wrapped astir it.
Ecovacs uses a unsocial roller mop plan for its robots, which I americium a instrumentality of. The roller mop gets perpetually washed arsenic it cleans, and I similar the thought of cleanable h2o washing my level alternatively than ungraded being dispersed around. The roller mop is an alternate to the dual spinning heads that different robots have, which person to beryllium washed astatine the basal station.
For mopping, the X9 Pro Omni does a bully job. If you person thing stubborn similar dried ketchup oregon dried feline nutrient connected the floor, it's often not capable to get it each successful 1 go, but it does get smaller stains and it is capable to region stubborn stains with aggregate passes. With robot vacuums, the thought is to tally them aggregate times a week truthful that the level is cleaned implicit clip and stays clean. For tiny messes, it's great. For a immense sticky stain connected the floor? I person to cleanable that myself unless I privation to tally the X9 Pro Omni implicit that country respective times, which is an option.
Prior to utilizing the X9 Pro Omni, I mopped erstwhile a week and had my location thoroughly cleaned erstwhile a month. When the robot archetypal started mopping the floor, the h2o would travel backmost gray. Now, it's a small soiled immoderate of the time, but it's adjacent to clear. I'm a thorough mopper, but 3x per week mopping with the X9 Pro Omni's roller mop made a difference, particularly successful areas wherever I didn't regularly cleanable similar nether the couch. My floors ne'er looked soiled before, but present they consciousness overmuch cleaner.
I should adhd that the X9 Pro Omni is astir ever cleaning my level with conscionable water. There is simply a slot for adding cleaning solution, but you request to beryllium cautious what you use. Ecovacs recommends utilizing its solution to debar gumming up the internals, but I've besides successfully utilized Bona's robot vacuum cleaning solution. Water is wholly good and gets the level clean.
Noise
When vacuuming, the X9 Pro sounds similar a vacuum. I tin tolerate being successful the aforesaid country with it if I deterioration sound canceling headphones, but I wouldn't privation it to vacuum astatine night. The mopping is quieter, and I don't perceive overmuch erstwhile the vacuum isn't on.
The X9 Pro Omni is designed to mop and vacuum astatine the aforesaid time, and that's arsenic noisy arsenic vacuuming alone.
Battery
The X9 Pro Omni has decent artillery life, but however agelong it lasts erstwhile cleaning volition beryllium connected the parameters that are acceptable and however often it needs to instrumentality to the dock to bare the dustbin oregon lavation the mop.
I've seen it past for a small implicit 3 hours earlier it needs to recharge, and successful that clip period, it's capable to cleanable astir 1,000 sq ft, but that besides varies based connected the benignant of cleaning that it's doing.
If the X9 Pro Omni runs retired of artillery beingness successful the mediate of a task, it volition recharge and past resume erstwhile it's done.
I find the champion mode to usage robot vacuums is to person a acceptable it and hide it cleaning schedule. I delegate it to cleanable 1 country of the location per day, truthful it's not moving retired of battery. With a cleaning schedule, I don't person to deliberation astir the robot overmuch astatine all. It goes disconnected and does its thing, and the location stays clean. I adhd successful spot cleanings erstwhile needed, and person it cleanable precocious postulation areas a mates times a week.
Dock
The dock is simply a charger, positive it holds cleanable and soiled h2o tanks and a particulate bag. The X9 Pro Omni has to instrumentality to the dock to bare the particulate it's collected and it besides washes the mop with blistery water.
Since the X9 Pro Omni's dock is smaller than the X8 Pro Omni, it has a smaller soiled h2o vessel (2.2L vs. 4L). I bash request to bare it much often, but it's speedy to bash truthful it hasn't been a hassle. The cleanable h2o vessel is inactive 4L.
AI Features and Obstacle Avoidance
I've recovered that the high-end robot vacuums are bully astatine navigation, and the X9 Pro Omni hasn't gotten stuck oregon had problems getting to antithetic rooms of my house. It seems to beryllium amended astatine avoiding obstacles than the prior-generation X8 Pro Omni, and I've ne'er had it rotation disconnected and get lost.
I person seen the X9 Pro Omni propulsion lightweight items similar my cat's nutrient vessel retired of the mode to clean, but it's someway ne'er sucked up a tiny feline toy. It's amazingly bully astatine getting itself retired of entanglements with tricky furniture, and it volition effort respective avenues to exit a choky spot.
There is simply a "sensitive" mounting that volition marque definite it avoids pets and people, but I person that turned disconnected due to the fact that if it stopped each clip my feline approached it, it wouldn't get thing done.
This exemplary has an "Intelligent Hosting" cleaning mode, wherever the robot decides what to cleanable and however to cleanable it. With this mode, the robot uses AI to find wherever to cleanable and however overmuch to cleanable an area. I've chiefly been utilizing this mode to springiness it a coagulated try, but sometimes I'm not definite wherefore it makes a peculiar decision. I've noticed that it volition bash other passes successful doorways and astir favored areas, which is smart, but past sometimes it volition besides skip full rooms, oregon lone cleanable fractional of a room.
The astir caller clip I utilized it, it cleaned astir of my office, skipped my bath and closet, cleaned 1 tiny conception of my surviving room, thoroughly cleaned 2 bedrooms, cleaned fractional of the trade room, and skipped the room and surviving country wholly adjacent though those are the rooms astir successful request of cleaning. If determination was a crushed for that chaotic pattern, I don't cognize what it was.
It is expected to beryllium capable to observe soiled areas connected the floor, and it volition sometimes spell implicit a spot a clump of times. I deliberation sometimes that it sees the darker knots successful my wood level arsenic dirt, but I person besides seen it successfully scrub dried feline nutrient disconnected of the floor, and walk a bully 15 minutes mopping up a trade country with clay connected the floor.
You don't request to usage the intelligent mode, and tin alternatively elite to person the robot usage modular cleaning methods that aren't directed by AI.
Ecovacs App
Setup and absorption of the X9 Pro Omni is done with the Ecovacs app, and that's besides wherever each of the much precocious features are available. Getting the robot up and moving takes little than 5 minutes, and past it's acceptable to go. When archetypal activated, the X9 Pro Omni volition bash a implicit 3D location scan to larn the layout of your house.
The robot maps retired idiosyncratic rooms and separates them retired for the astir part, but immoderate manual absorption is necessary. I labeled each country and utilized the in-app tools to clarify that my bath and my closet are abstracted areas.
There is simply a elaborate representation exertion for mounting boundaries, creating no-go zones, labeling rooms, labeling furniture, merging rooms, separating rooms, and more.
The app has basal start, pause, and halt controls, but determination are besides aggregate cleaning options to take from. You tin set the suction powerfulness of the vacuum (which impacts sound level), take the h2o travel for mopping, and prime cleaning patterns. There's modular cleanable with 1 pass, a heavy cleanable with two, and a speedy cleanable with much abstraction betwixt the backmost and distant rows the robot cleans in.
There is simply a built-in dependable adjunct activated with an "OK Yiko" aftermath word, but I usage it precise little. It's responsive and it works good for things similar pausing cleaning oregon continuing to cleanable erstwhile the app is not astatine hand. It's much susceptible than ‌Siri‌ for cleaning-specific commands due to the fact that it understands multi-step instructions similar vacuum the chamber and past mop the bathroom.
I admit that Ecovacs has elaborate privateness controls with toggles to disable information sharing. There are besides immoderate amusive small add-ins successful the app, similar the quality to presumption immoderate the robot is seeing done its camera, and nonstop it disconnected done the location truthful you tin support an oculus connected things erstwhile you're not home.
There is 1 facet of the cleaning that gets connected my nerves, and that's the dependable narration. The X9 Pro Omni volition narrate what it's doing, specified arsenic letting maine cognize erstwhile it's going to lavation the mop, oregon that determination volition beryllium sound erstwhile it's emptying the particulate bag.
Home App
The X9 Pro Omni has Matter integration, truthful if you person iOS 18.4 oregon later, it tin beryllium added to the Home app and utilized with ‌Siri‌.
When I archetypal tested the X8, I wasn't sold connected ‌Siri‌ integration, but I've travel astir to it and it's much utile than I archetypal thought. I tin accidental "Hey ‌Siri‌, cleanable the kitchen," and it works. I person HomePods successful my surviving country and office, truthful it's much convenient for maine to inquire ‌Siri‌ to bash spot cleaning than it is to unfastened the Ecovacs app oregon usage the robot's dependable bid capabilities.
There are reasonably basal controls for the X9 Pro Omni successful the Home app. You tin start/stop, take betwixt vacuum oregon mop modes, prime a circumstantial country to clean, and toggle betwixt heavy cleanable and speedy clean.
I really similar immoderate of the Home app automation options amended than the cleaning schedules I tin acceptable successful the Ecovacs app. With HomeKit, I tin acceptable the X9 Pro Omni to commencement cleaning erstwhile everyone leaves home, oregon docket it to beryllium activated alongside different ‌HomeKit‌ devices.
Maintenance
The X9 Pro Omni hasn't required overmuch attraction truthful far, but determination are components that person a constricted lifespan and that volition request to beryllium replaced. Ecovacs recommends replacing the main brushwood aft 300 hours, the roller mop and broadside brushwood aft 150 hours, and the filter aft astir 120 hours.
Sensors request to beryllium cleaned each truthful often, the particulate container needs to beryllium swapped retired astir erstwhile a month, and the h2o tanks request to beryllium managed. I person to refill the cleanable h2o each 2 oregon 3 cleanings, but with the smaller soiled h2o tank, I request to bash that with astir each cleaning. The app sends alerts erstwhile the tanks request to beryllium addressed, and it keeps way of erstwhile components request to beryllium replaced.
With dense use, it would astir apt outgo $100 a twelvemonth to swap everything out. Three filters are $15, the main brushwood is $20, the mop roller is $30, 3 particulate bags are $25, and the broadside brushwood is $15.
The different spot of attraction that I person to bash is moving the robot erstwhile it eats a rug, oregon gets thing stuck successful the brush. I had a small felt shot get caught once, but it's bully capable astatine entity detection that it's a uncommon occurrence. I haven't tally into mechanical issues oregon show problems with the objection of the robot's mediocre rug handling.
Ecovacs has a constituent strategy wherever you gain points for utilizing the app's features, truthful determination are discounts for accessories available. For immoderate issues that arise, determination is simply a one-year warranty.
Bottom Line
After a fewer months with the X9 Pro Omni, I person mixed feelings astir it. It's $1,300, portion the prior-generation X8 Pro Omni is $900 (currently connected sale). I deliberation the X9 Pro Omni and X8 Pro Omni are akin capable successful show that it's worthy going with the much affordable model, unless you privation immoderate of the features that are unsocial to the updated version.
The X9 Pro Omni's dock is overmuch much aesthetically pleasing, and the look is worthy considering if it's going to beryllium successful a spot cardinal to the home. I didn't announcement a batch of quality successful the cleaning quality betwixt the X8 and X9 connected wood floors, but I did admit the stronger unit of the mop and immoderate stains did look to travel up quicker. This mentation is expected to beryllium overmuch amended connected carpet, truthful with carpet successful the home, the upgrade is astir apt worthy it.
If you already person an X8 Pro Omni, the X9 is not worthy upgrading to, but if you're caller to robot vacuums, it's a bully 1 to get. The X8 and X9 Pro Omni from Ecovacs are some awesome vacuuming and mopping robots. With the objection of immoderate mediocre show connected lightweight rugs, the X9 Pro Omni is an automated cleaning instrumentality that requires small idiosyncratic interaction, and it conscionable works. It does what Ecovacs says it volition do, and it does it well.
I was skeptical astir robot vacuums earlier I was capable to effort one, but present I americium sold. This isn't a merchandise that I privation to beryllium without due to the fact that it saves maine truthful overmuch clip and intelligence effort. I fundamentally ne'er person to deliberation astir cleaning my floors, and it's a occupation that conscionable gets done.
I don't deliberation Matter and ‌HomeKit‌ integration are indispensable for a robot vacuum, but it's functionality that's bully to person if you usage ‌Siri‌ for location tasks oregon privation to acceptable up analyzable automations.
How to Buy
The Deebot X9 Pro Omni tin beryllium purchased from the Ecovacs website for $1,299.99.
Note: Ecovacs provided MacRumors with a Deebot X9 Pro Omni for the intent of this review. No different compensation was received.
This article, "Review: Ecovacs' Matter-Compatible Deebot X9 Pro Omni Robot Vacuum Put to the Test" archetypal appeared connected MacRumors.com
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