I have been following the growth of Ecovacs Robotics in the robot vacuum market since 2018, after having tried the Debot Ozmo 930 and Debot 900 for Techradar at the time. I have seen practically all the generations launched since that time in action, and I tried four other models, and they have impressed me to what extent the technological evolution of the company has taken it.
The case in question is my Ecovacs Debot X8 Pro Omni review: it is an emblematic model that impressed me so much, despite its highest sale price compared to something like Debot T30 Omni, I would feel comfortable recommending it to anyone who learned of an autonomous cleaner all in one. However, the latter, if you can find stock, is possibly the best value robovac that I have tried to date.
Unfortunately, he is one of the successors of the T30 Omni to be the first Debot to disappoint me. They sent me the ecovacs deebot t50 Max Pro Omni for review immediately after the aforementioned X8, it would have been my seventh deebot, if I follow up, and, although things started well enough, it quickly went downhill from there.
In silence, for bad behavior
The initial configuration, as with each deebot that I have tried previously, was a breeze: the pairing took seconds and the mapping of my apartment in a room took five minutes. Then I sent the T50 Max Pro Omni (I called me Meryl Sweet, my most sincere apologies to the great actress) to first clean the fully carpeted room, located in the highest suction environment.
Holy Moly, was the quieter bot I had tried! He registered 61DB in Decibelx (a free iOS application that I have been using for review purposes for a while), and I remember that my visiting parents offered and were on how silently they did their thing. Auto-Epty was remarkably fast, which surprised me: I did not too much dirt in the container on board.
It was in his second cleaning session that I began to question his first race.
It establishes in the notch mucus after the vacuum, the hard floors in my living room and dining room only, with its highest suction and a high water flow rate, the T50 Max Pro omni now sounded much stronger than any recent robot vacuum cleaner I had tried, registering 77db.
While apparently aspired by the living room area properly, Meryl Sweing constantly remained cleaning half of the dining room until its battery began to work. There was no mop.
Annoyed, I stopped the 'work' and sent it back to its dock and the automatic management process now sounded, 'normal', stronger and longer, as I expected after the most recent Debot reviews.
I established it to repeat the same cleaning of life and dinner in the same environment the next day, but I kept saying that “I could not find the designated area.” I tried a different room; same answer.
A complete factory restart and factory forwarded the trick: he aspired and then swallowed the living rooms and dining room … only to fail again the next day when he could not “find the designated area” for another personalized cleaning.
The second time was not the charm
Ecovacs Robotics had the kindness of replacing my review unit and, again, the configuration was impressively fast. Unfortunately, the inability of the new unit to find its “designated area” began in its first career, which was a personalized job similar to what had established that the previous bot did.
It turns out that these personalized cleaning cleaning or area with which the T50 Pro Max Omni has a problem. I established the second unit to make an automatic cleaning session, now called intelligent accommodation in the Ecovacs Home application, and it was fine away from its dock. However, there were also problems here.
Not only began in the wrong room (the map sequence to which the one that was established was starting in the bedroom, but began in the living room), but also failed in one of the basic functions.
The automatic Ecovacs mode is a vacuum and girl configuration, so it would expect the pads to be lacked before the bot leave the base station. That did not happen, and I found the dry mox max pro -omni spring with the extended pads, even though I made sure that the clean water tank was full. However, he washed the mops after he returned to the base station.
An error in the hood
This is not the first time that a deebot model has suffered what is possibly a navigation problem (mapping?). An old Reddit thread before the T50 family was announced has some users who say they have experienced similar problems and have offered several solutions, but do not specify whether this affects only one model or different ofEbots.
I cannot verify if the entire T50 family is affected, but it is clear that there is an error that affects some models or, at least, some specific units, and Ecovacs should seek to fix this. Fortunately, neither the omni nor the x8 pr O omni gave me so many problems, so I was so surprised Surprised that the T50 did not behave as expected.
Ecovacs now has a large catalog of robot vacuum cleaners, each at a different price (from the budget to the flagship) and offers different features. I cannot imagine that the company would send products to the market without trying them first, but perhaps the T50 Pro Max Omni fell on the road and the tests were not completed, I mean, can I understand that a unit is defective, but two?
I So Wted to Fall in Love With The T50 Max Pro omni: It has a bit more suction than the x8 (18,500Pa vs. 18,000PA respectively) at a lot AU $ 2,499 (The UK Doesn't Get The T50 Max Model, But the T50 Pro Omni is £ 799 at full price). Nor spares in other characteristics, including Ecovacs Yiko Voice Assistant and the integration of matter. On paper, it is really a fantastic machine: flagship features without the premium price. The main difference is that you use MOP circular pads, while the X8 Pro Omni roller is fantastic.
Only from a price perspective, it would be highly recommended … if it worked. It is a shame that this Debot has turned out to be a Dudbot and I think he should retire from the shelves immediately.
