Robot Vacuums

# Best Robot Vacuum for Pet Hair on Carpet — Home Lab Review *By Marcus Webb — 8 years enterprise network engineering, 6-year Portland home lab* ## The Short Answer Based on six months of daily use in my Portland basement lab, the **Roborock S8 Pro Ultra** is the clear winner for pet hair on […]

# Neato D10 Review: The Enterprise-Grade Robot Vacuum That Missed the Mark on Local Control ## WHO SHOULD NOT BUY THE NEATO D10 If you are building a zero-trust, fully local smart home architecture, the Neato D10 is not for you. After six months of daily use in my Portland basement lab, the biggest disappointment

THE SHORT ANSWER For a pet owner living in a typical Portland apartment, the short answer is yes, but only if you prioritize local control and specific navigation algorithms over marketing fluff. In my own basement lab, where I run a four-node Proxmox cluster and a 24-bay Synology NAS, I have spent hours reverse-engineering the

# Who Should Buy the iRobot Roomba j7 Plus If you are running a Home Assistant instance on a dedicated Proxmox node in your basement, the j7 Plus is a viable option, but only if you accept the cloud dependency. I have spent six years building a Linux-based smart home ecosystem where local control is

Who Should Buy the Ecovacs Deebot T20 Omni Based on my personal testing in a 2,500-square-foot home with mixed flooring and a dedicated home lab environment, here are the specific profiles for this unit: * **The Large Home Owner with High Traffic:** If you have over 2,000 square feet of carpet and hard flooring, the

# Best Robot Vacuums for Homes with High-Pile Rugs ## What To Look For If you have high-pile rugs, the first thing you need to understand is that suction power alone does not equal cleaning performance. I have tested dozens of units in my own home, which features a mix of thick Persian-style wool rugs