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Myster - my robot vacuum cleaner moves during the night from it's charging base - how?

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Soffit · 14/01/2022 15:05

This will sound strange but it often moves to another room altogether so several meters off the base and around a complicated route. I've never caught it in the act. It often moves towards the front door. The charging base is typically switched off as I only charge it when I want to do a long clean. The funny thing is that it does not do this at all during the day. I don't think my neighbour has one with the same remote control as I hear her loud, traditional vacuum cleaner and she is not very tidy anyway. Does anyone else have any experience of this?

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onetwothreeadventure · 14/01/2022 15:15

Is there a timer? Sometimes I set mine accidentally and here it roaming around in the middle of the night!

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Soffit · 14/01/2022 15:17

There is a timer but I have never used it. I'll check though to see if it has been pressed accidentally!

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SmallGreenStripes · 14/01/2022 15:18

Yep there will be a timer set

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kennelmaid · 14/01/2022 15:37

It can see that it's missed a bit under the settee and is simply being conscientious

ItsNotNormalLove · 14/01/2022 16:05

It is clearly trying to escape!

TooManyPJs · 14/01/2022 16:36

Once it's worked out how to open the door it'll be off....

Sunbird24 · 14/01/2022 16:37

Wouldn’t survive very long outside though - nature abhors a vacuum…

iklboo · 14/01/2022 16:39

Wouldn’t survive very long outside though - nature abhors a vacuum…

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ProudThrilledHappy · 14/01/2022 16:40

@Sunbird24

Wouldn’t survive very long outside though - nature abhors a vacuum…
Winner!!Grin
lokabrenna · 14/01/2022 16:41

If it’s like ours, then if the base is off and it’s low on charge it will go looking for the base! It will assume it’s charging incorrectly and try to go home to solve the issue itself, but as the base is off it can’t get home, so goes for a wander. So you should leave the base on and it sat charging all the time when not in use.

lokabrenna · 14/01/2022 16:43

Btw the base gives off a signal when it’s on, and that’s what it can’t find as you turned the base off. When it’s done charging it won’t pull any more charge, but it needs the signal from the base to know it’s correctly home.

Elisheva · 14/01/2022 16:43

It’s going to find its base. As you have turned it off it doesn’t know where it is.

Ninkanink · 14/01/2022 16:45

@Sunbird24

Wouldn’t survive very long outside though - nature abhors a vacuum…
God that made me happy!! Star
HopingForMyRainbowBaby · 14/01/2022 16:47

It's possessed 👻👻👻

BarrowInFurnessRailwayStation · 14/01/2022 16:50

It's trying to get to a party on the outside 🥂🍾🎉

Havilland · 14/01/2022 16:52

They shouldn’t be kept on their own and will always try to escape. Get it a mate.

SpikyHatePotato · 14/01/2022 16:54

@Sunbird24

Wouldn’t survive very long outside though - nature abhors a vacuum…
You win the internet today Grin
JaneJeffer · 14/01/2022 17:04

@Sunbird24

Wouldn’t survive very long outside though - nature abhors a vacuum…
Brilliant Grin
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Soffit · 14/01/2022 17:12

@Sunbird24

Wouldn’t survive very long outside though - nature abhors a vacuum…
Brilliant! I'm not to keen on it myself as it clogs up every ten minutes with hair which then has to be snipped off with scissors. I may open the front door for it next time I find it hovering around there
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Soffit · 14/01/2022 17:14

@lokabrenna

If it’s like ours, then if the base is off and it’s low on charge it will go looking for the base! It will assume it’s charging incorrectly and try to go home to solve the issue itself, but as the base is off it can’t get home, so goes for a wander. So you should leave the base on and it sat charging all the time when not in use.
That is plausible but I don't like leaving appliances on standby so maybe it's not the machine for me! I get annoyed when it spins around the same little area for the time it would take me to vacuum the whole room.
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Soffit · 14/01/2022 17:16

@lokabrenna

Btw the base gives off a signal when it’s on, and that’s what it can’t find as you turned the base off. When it’s done charging it won’t pull any more charge, but it needs the signal from the base to know it’s correctly home.
But why does it only dare to venture out during the night? It's like a tearaway teenager waiting to give me the dodge.
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DecayedStrumpet · 14/01/2022 17:16

Yup it's looking for its base.

Thanks for the judgement that untidy people can't have robovacs though Grin I have one specifically because once I've tidied up the floor I've lost the will to live hoover

notacooldad · 14/01/2022 17:17

I don't think my neighbour has one with the same remote control as I hear her loud, traditional vacuum cleaner and she is not very tidy anyway
She's enticing it round to hers!

Ninkanink · 14/01/2022 17:20

I think it knows that you really don’t like it. Sad Sad

Sunbird24 · 24/01/2022 20:17

It’s the start of an uprising…
Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-60084347

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