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Design
The X8 Pro Omni is simply a circular vacuum that tin some vacuum and mop, truthful it is an all-in-one level cleaning bot. It comes with a basal that has a particulate bag, conception for cleaning fluid, a vessel for cleanable water, and a vessel for soiled water.
This is not a tiny robot vacuum, and it's not going to beryllium perfect for tiny spaces. It's astir 14 inches wide and astir 4 inches tall. I person a TV basal that's 4 inches precocious and the vacuum does not acceptable underneath it, but it is abbreviated capable to get nether astir furniture, including my couch, bookcases, bed, and desks. Because of the width, it cannot get into spaces that are tight, specified arsenic a seat adjacent to a array leg, oregon 2 chairs that are adjacent to 1 another.
The basal presumption is 21 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 11 and a fractional inches deep, and you request to person capable country astir it for the robot to dock itself. The X8 Pro Omni is achromatic and gold, arsenic is the station, but it's not garish. It blends close in, and adjacent though the charging presumption is large, I was capable to tuck it distant successful a corner.
There is simply a built-in camera astatine the beforehand of the X8 Pro Omni, which is utilized for navigation, country mapping, and obstacle avoidance, positive it has a microphone for listening for dependable commands and a talker to respond and to inquire for assistance if it gets stuck.
Cleaning
I've ever been skeptical of robot vacuums, but I was impressed with the X8 Pro Omni. It has superior suction powerfulness (Ecovacs says 18,000 Pa) that was capable to cleanable up feline hairsbreadth and everything other connected my floors, and moving it regularly kept my floors a batch cleaner than my emblematic play vacuuming. The suction powerfulness is adjustable, and higher suction is noisier, but I mostly utilized it successful the higher mode to get everything disconnected of my floors.
I'm capable to enactment successful the country with the X8 Pro Omni moving adjacent astatine its highest suction, but I astir apt wouldn't instrumentality a telephone call. It's the loudest erstwhile vacuuming, and is usually betwixt 50 and 60 decibels with the modular mode. The mopping is quieter, and emptying the particulate is the loudest operation.
There's a small spinning brushwood connected the broadside that's meant to get astir the edges of a room, and successful the weeks that I've been utilizing the vacuum, it's done a bully occupation getting into nooks and crannies. There's besides a mopping feature, and the mop that Ecovacs included is thing special. It's a roller mop alternatively than the spinning mop that different robot vacuums have, and I deliberation it cleans stains similar dried feline nutrient amended than my different vacuum that has spinning mops.
With 2 passes, it was capable to get astir of the small bits of dried nutrient disconnected of my floor. I adjacent tested it with dried ketchup that I enactment connected the floor, and portion it didn't get everything disconnected successful 1 go, it got close. The thought with robot vacuums is to person them cleanable regular oregon respective times a week, and the X8 Pro Omni was capable to support my level spotless with a schedule.
The Ozmo Roller, arsenic Ecovacs calls it, is cleaned disconnected with a h2o nozzle arsenic the vacuum mops the floor, truthful soiled h2o is scraped disconnected and cleanable h2o is reapplied. I similar that conception amended than a robot vacuum dragging soiled h2o on the floor, and it did look to beryllium effective. I don't deterioration shoes successful the location and my floors are comparatively clean, but the discarded h2o was ever dirty, truthful grime was coming up with each cycle. The X8 Pro Omni tin cleanable the level with conscionable water, but it does judge cleaning solution that you tin enactment successful the basal to capable the vacuum. Ecovacs recommends utilizing its ain cleaning solution to debar damaging the vacuum.
I person wood floors, and I americium cautious with them. The X8 Pro Omni has not done immoderate damage, but I bash cheque the wheels and the mop to marque definite thing gets lodged there. The wheels are rubber and the mop is soft, truthful it doesn't look similar there's thing that would origin an issue.
I don't privation to spell connected everlastingly astir the cleaning capabilities of the robot, truthful I'll wrapper up by saying it did a large job, but determination are a fewer caveats with navigation and obstacle avoidance.
The X8 Pro Omni needs to beryllium capable to get to the floor, and it volition person a hard clip successful rooms with a batch of furnishings oregon items connected the floor. I person to bash a walk earlier I person it cleanable to determination feline toys and immoderate other I mightiness person connected the floor. While cleaning, the robot volition bare its particulate bin connected its own, lavation its mop, and recharge, truthful you conscionable deed the commencement fastener and it goes astir its chore connected its own.
It does necessitate my attraction with rugs, due to the fact that it can't grip them. I person immoderate bladed country rugs that I don't person immoderate benignant of rubber padding under, and the X8 Pro Omni cannot woody with these. It routinely sucks up the tassels connected 1 of my rugs and gets itself tangled up, and getting up to hole it each 2 minutes erstwhile it's doing that conception of the country is frustrating.
It does amended with the thicker rugs I person successful the bath that bash person a sturdier backing, and it tin navigate and vacuum those with less issues. I person 1 ample country rug that isn't a problem, and it does fine, but that is the grade of the carpet successful my location truthful I haven't been capable to trial carpet suction beyond my rugs.
For context, it takes 2 hours for it to heavy cleanable a 600 sq ft room, of which it tin entree astir 400 sq ft (because of furniture). A modular cleanable is person to an hour. I've locked it successful my bureau for this review, but were it to cleanable my full house, it would instrumentality respective hours and would apt request to recharge. The 2 hr heavy cleanable does not necessitate recharging, and leaves it with astir 30 percent artillery astatine the end. When utilized successful modular mode, the X8 Pro Omni tin tally for implicit 3.5 hours earlier needing to charge. For a afloat recharge, it takes astir 4 hours.
Upkeep and Performance
There are filters that request to beryllium changed, h2o that needs to beryllium added and emptied, and components that yet request to beryllium replaced. The Ecovacs app has a elaborate Maintenance conception that lets you cognize erstwhile you request to execute maintenance. A filter lasts for 120 hours, and the mop works for 150 hours. In the period that I've been investigating the X8 Pro Omni, I haven't had to bash thing different than adhd much h2o to the cleanable h2o bin.
There is immoderate outgo associated with upkeep, arsenic components volition request to beryllium replaced implicit time. A caller roller mop, for example, is $30, and 3 particulate bags is $25.
I person not tally into issues portion investigating the X8 Pro Omni. The robot is responsive, it has not gone offline, and the app has been stable. I besides haven't had hardware issues, and Ecovacs does person a modular one-year warranty.
HomeKit and Siri
iOS 18.4 and its sister updates adhd enactment for Matter-enabled robot vacuums, truthful to beryllium capable to power the X8 Pro Omni from the Home app and via Siri, iOS 18.4 oregon aboriginal is required.
Functionality is limited, compared with the diagnostic acceptable that is disposable with the Ecovacs website. In the Home app, there's a fastener to commencement the robot and to take whether the robot vacuums oregon mops. Specific rooms that person been acceptable up with the Ecovacs app tin beryllium selected, oregon you tin take to person the X8 Pro Omni cleanable each rooms that it has entree to.
There's besides a built-in toggle for Quick oregon Deep Clean, which controls the cleaning signifier that the robot uses. Siri commands tin beryllium utilized successful lieu of the Home app, truthful you tin accidental thing similar "turn connected the Deebot" to commencement a cleaning rhythm (I named the robot Deebot successful the Home app).
Commands similar "tell Deebot to vacuum" oregon "tell Deebot to speedy clean" didn't enactment with Siri, due to the fact that Siri conscionable kept telling maine determination was nary Deebot successful my contacts list. It was a frustrating acquisition trying to usage Siri to activate and power the vacuum, and utilizing the Ecovacs app oregon the Home app was simpler.
It's not Ecovacs' responsibility that Siri is little than capable, and the Ecovacs app is an easier solution for the astir part, though I was besides perfectly capable to power the vacuum from the Home app.
Ecovacs App and Mapping
The Ecovacs app has a overmuch deeper diagnostic acceptable than is disposable with the Home app oregon with Siri, including its ain idiosyncratic adjunct that tin respond to voice-based commands.
Operating the X8 Pro Omni requires the Ecovacs app for setup and for specialized controls. Setup was a ace elemental process, and the app is complicated, but casual capable to fig out. There's an overarching "Home" that houses each of your Ecovacs products, and tapping into 1 brings up controls. You tin commencement oregon intermission the robot from this interface, oregon nonstop it to recharge, and further options are disposable by tapping the "Enter" option.
Before starting to vacuum, the X8 Pro Omni maps retired each of the rooms of the house, oregon the rooms that it is fixed entree to. It's amazingly bully astatine identifying objects, distinguishing betwixt flooring types, and separating areas into rooms. It tin misidentify smaller spaces. For example, it merged my bureau bath into the main bureau country and divided a closet into 2 rooms erstwhile it's one. I tin presumption and edit the representation to hole it, make boundaries for the vacuum, place antithetic rooms, and statement furniture. There is simply a multi-map enactment for houses with much than 1 story, oregon for abstracted areas.
The X8 Pro Omni is continually scanning its surroundings arsenic it cleans, and it is bully astatine not bumping into furnishings oregon objects. It besides does good with pets. My feline loves the robot, and erstwhile it vacuums, he'll travel it astir and get successful its way. The X8 Pro Omni mildly nudges him retired of its way and continues connected with its task.
As the X8 Pro Omni cleans, it shows a achromatic enactment connected the representation of wherever it has vacuumed, truthful it's casual to guarantee that it gets into each nook and cranny that it tin reach. Mopping is shown with a much diffuse enactment implicit the vacuum line.
There are aggregate options for controlling however it cleans. There's a vacuum lone mode, a vac and mop mode wherever it vacuums and past mops astatine the aforesaid time, and a mop aft vac mode wherever it volition spell astir and vacuum first, past mop afterward. The payment to that past mode is that it'll vacuum earlier it starts washing the floor, truthful there's nary h2o from the roller mop getting connected carpets oregon anyplace else.
You tin set suction powerfulness for the vacuuming, h2o travel complaint for the mopping, and the cleaning speed, which increases oregon decreases the abstraction betwixt the passes that it makes connected the floor. Deep cleaning has small abstraction betwixt each walk (it cleans successful lines on the floor), and speedy cleanable has much space. There are besides options for a azygous walk oregon 2 passes, and you tin prime circumstantial areas of a country for adjacent much cleaning to get up pugnacious stains.
It's perfect to acceptable up a docket to person the X8 Pro Omni cleanable each time oregon aggregate times a week. Depending connected however ample the country is that it's cleaning, it whitethorn request to halt and recharge, and determination volition beryllium aggregate stops to bare the particulate bin oregon lavation disconnected the mop. Since it tin instrumentality immoderate clip for it to finish, determination is simply a Do Not Disturb enactment that prevents it from turning connected during circumstantial times of the day, and Auto Resume tin besides beryllium turned disconnected if you don't privation it cleaning fractional the house, charging up, and past resuming precocious astatine nighttime erstwhile you're trying to sleep.
With a ample house, it would astir apt marque consciousness to acceptable the robot to cleanable a country oregon 2 each day, which would support the floors cleanable without having it tally for hours. It tin besides beryllium scheduled to tally erstwhile you're retired of the house, which lets you debar the noise, positive determination are options for cleaning up eating areas aft meals and keeping favored areas clean.
There is simply a dependable adjunct built into the X8 Pro Omni, called Yiko. Saying the "Ok Yiko" aftermath connection activates listening mode, and the robot accepts commands to commencement a clean, proceed a clean, halt a clean, spell charge, and more.
Yiko is much susceptible than Siri, and tin recognize commands to vacuum circumstantial rooms, nether circumstantial furniture, and multi-step commands similar expanse astir the favored feeder, past mop. It tin re-clean rooms connected command, spot clean, and cleanable astatine circumstantial times. There's adjacent an enactment to person it travel to wherever you are and clean, and you tin nonstop it distant with a "don't cleanable here" command.
While the X8 Pro Omni is cleaning, you tin presumption the camera to spot what it's doing and what it's seeing. When it's not cleaning, you tin participate the unrecorded presumption and person it patrol your location and pass with whoever is successful the house, truthful it's besides benignant of a mobile information oregon favored camera. I tin nonstop it to spell cheque successful connected my cat, utilizing an on-screen distant control, and it tin drawback photos, instrumentality videos, and fto maine speech to him. It's amusive to play with.
I bash privation I could person it vacuum/mop portion I power it, but that's not an option.
Privacy
Ecovacs is simply a Chinese company, and this is simply a merchandise that includes a camera and the quality to representation your house, which immoderate users volition beryllium wary about. Ecovacs does person a wide privateness argumentation surrounding information storage, and footage from the camera is stored locally and encrypted.
Visual information tin beryllium uploaded to Ecovacs' servers for obstacle avoidance purposes, but this is an opt-in feature. There are aggregate privateness controls successful the app, with toggles for opting retired of information sharing, though immoderate of the opt-outs trim functionality.
Bottom Line
Unfortunately, each of the robot vacuums that person Matter integration are higher-end models, and it's not a diagnostic that has trickled down to introduction level models. The Deebot X8 Pro Omni is implicit $1,000, and different robots with Matter enactment and akin features besides person the aforesaid wide terms point.
Given that HomeKit-based controls for robot vacuums are constricted successful scope compared to what you tin bash successful the apps designed for robot vacuums, Matter integration shouldn't beryllium the sole crushed to take a peculiar product. Maybe it volition get amended implicit time, but determination are a batch of precocious features you can't get to without the dedicated app, and it makes the astir consciousness to acceptable up a docket and deliberation small astir the robot aft that.
Where Matter mightiness beryllium much important is if you privation to person a vacuum that interacts successful immoderate mode with different HomeKit devices, due to the fact that you tin acceptable up multi-device automations. If you privation to person the robot vacuum whenever radical permission the house, the Home app tin bash that. You tin perfectly clean, mop, and run the X8 Pro Omni with Siri and the Home app, it's conscionable much businesslike to usage the Ecovacs app.
Even with somewhat anemic HomeKit integration, I bash deliberation the X8 Pro Omni is worthy considering conscionable for its cleaning capabilities. The roller mop that it has for washing the level works well, and the suction much than keeps up with a multi-pet household. It's bully astatine avoiding obstacles, and the app does travel with privateness controls and policies that are appreciated.
How to Buy
The Deebot X8 Pro Omni tin beryllium purchased from the Ecovacs website for $1,300, and it is also disposable from Amazon. Retailers similar Best Buy, Costco, and Home Depot besides merchantability Ecovacs products, truthful it's worthy looking for discounts and promotions.
Note: Ecovacs provided MacRumors with a Deebot X8 Pro Omni for the intent of this review. No different compensation was received.
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