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Re:New Roomba Has Persistent Maps, Selective Room Cleaning, ... by apazgo on Thursday September 06, 2018 @04:14AM (#17924669)
Also own a s50, most annoying thing for me is that you can't do reverse clean up zones, ie. Tell it where CAN'T clean. Also, Saving zoned cleanups would be a time saver. And rotating of the map for when it misalign them, which it keep doing sometimes even after following their instructions.

This is their answer when I emailed about rotatable map;

"Dear The map takes the environment near the starting point as a reference. If there are some things near the starting point, it will cause the Robot to draw a deformed map. In this case, please move the dock charger to an open area to solve this problem. Please ensure to retain 0.5 m or more in two sides and 1.5 m or more in the front of the dock charger. "

Re:New Roomba Has Persistent Maps, Selective Room Cleaning, ... by majewsky on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:32PM (#17929746)
> Please ensure to retain 0.5 m or more in two sides and 1.5 m or more in the front of the dock charger.

I'm struggling to think of any open space that large within my apartment. 3 m² is about 6.5% of my apartment's total area.

Re:New Roomba Has Persistent Maps, Selective Room Cleaning, ... by apazgo on Friday September 07, 2018 @03:47AM (#17932553)
Put it next to a door opening, then you only need free space on one side