ILIFE A11 Review Robot Vacuum With IR Remote, Multi Floor Mapping And Mop
Tuesday, May 10, 2022ILIFE A11's main feature is the integration of a physical IR remote (measures 11cm long, 4cm wide and 2cm thick), which works via two AAA batteries (included). The remote has non-clicky mushy rubber buttons and uses a large retro style dot matrix LCD display, which shows current time and function icons. When selecting the "return to home" function, you will see a small house icon come on the remote screen. The clock display is large so, you can see the current time easily. The function icons are a bit small though, and a bit hard to read.
Once the A11 robot maps the floor plan of the room, the app generates a zoomable 2D map of the room with the location of the robot in it so, you can find the robot should it get lost. The floor map also shows how long it takes the robot to clean the room and total area cleaned in square metres. After completing a full clean, the floor map gets automatically saved so, you can access it later. The A11 multi-floor map feature allows you to save up to three floor maps.
From the ILIFE VAC mobile app, you can perform all the functions, including manual cleaning mode, spot cleaning, edge wall cleaning, schedule cleaning sessions, adjust suction power, adjust seeping of the water tank and create a virtual wall to prevent the robot from cleaning a specific area, which means no need for physical boundaries using a black tape on the floor.
The ILIFE VAC mobile app also features a "share device" setting to allow you to give someone else access to the robot, as well a "quiet mode", which you can turn on and off at a specific time. When "quiet mode" is turned on, voice prompts are disabled and suction power is reduced down 65 noise dB. You can manually turn off the voice prompt alert too, adjust the volume level and mute the volume level right from the app.
The ILIFE A11 robot vacuum is equipped with a 4900mAh rechargeable battery, which is user replaceable and fast charging (3 hours to charge). The A11 robot has been progammed to return to home for charging when battery runs low (~6%) and then, resume where it left off until cleaning is complete. Battery life performance is as follow:
Smooth flooring
- Eco mode (800 Pa): 150 minutes
- Standard mode (1700 Pa): 116 minutes
- Turbo mode (2700 Pa): 96 minutes
- Spot cleaning mode (4000 Pa): 71 minutes
- Eco: 110 minutes
- Standard: 95 minutes
- Turbo: 70 minutes
- Spot cleaning mode: 49 minutes
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