Great Buy – I usually never write reviews but as I had a hard time finding reviews for this unit I figure I would write one for others.

The vacuum mode excels on hard floors and is pretty good on carpet. There are some things it struggles to pick up on carpet but overall does a great job. I have a cat and it does a great job keeping the house clean of hairs. I give it 10/10 on hard floors and 8/10 for carpet.

The mopping is OK, it doesn't do as well as doing it myself but does good enough to keep the floors clean and tidy between me doing it. This was more of a bonus function when I bought it, I was more interested in the vacuuming. You can set the amount of water it squirts out to 3 different level. I give it 7/10 for mopping.

It has 4 suction modes (silent, standard, medium and turbo). On standard the battery lasts a couple of hours but on turbo you only get just over an hour before it has to recharge.

The robot does a good job of finding its home to charge, it will only go home to recharge when it gets to 6% battery. After recharging to 60% it will finish the cleaning job it was doing. I will note that with the mop attachment on its turning circle on carpet is affected and as such has trouble docking. I really should put the dock on a hard floor but its convenient having it live under our spare bed. This issue doesn't occur if you don't have the mop attachment on.

The first time you run a clean you really need to set it to clean the whole house. It will use this to map your house which makes setting it up properly easier the next time you use it. I would run this on silent or standard vacuum setting so it doesn't have to recharge multiple times while doing the mapping. It may seems like when mapping it is skipping rooms or only doing half a room but it will eventually go back to finish them.

A couple of things I don't like have to do with the phone app. Firstly you can only schedule cleaning of the whole house or selected rooms. I prefer the use the Clean Zone function where I can draw zones in my house to clean but this can only be used if you want to start cleaning right away. Luckily I can manually set the cleaning via a zone to start when I'm at work but it would nice if I could just schedule it.

This gets me to the second thing I don't like, the Viomi V2 does a great job at mapping my house and drawing the floor plan on the app but my house has a large open floor plan and the app doesn't allow me to split this into sections easily so I can ensure it doesn't try to mop sections of the house that have carpet. A few rooms just appear as one huge room on the app and the tool to split up the house doesn't allow me to fix this. The app seems to mostly be good at only defining rooms that have a clear single entrance. This is why I prefer to use the Clean Zone functionality.

I do like that I can set restricted zones in my house and it follows these rules. There is one room I have set as a restricted zone as my partner does jig saw puzzles in there and I don't want it sucking up pieces. The Vacuum always obeys to these rules. I have also set restricted zones around my dinning table as it has trouble getting out if the chairs are pushed in so it now goes around the outside of the table.

The robot has never got into a situation it couldn't get itself out of. Sometimes when it seems like its going to get stuck it just stops for a bit while it works out what to do and manages to get out. The final thing I don't like is that official spare parts seem hard to find in Australia. You can get third party parts pretty easily from China but it would be nice if the official Xiaomi store sold parts since you do need to replace things like the filters, sweeper and roller every 6 - 12 months.

Overall this robot vacuum is fantastic value for money and would highly recommend. I picked it up for $499 on the official Xiaomi website and it arrived in 3 days. Can't imagine living without it now.

I bought this to clean my house in between the manual cleaning I do as my floors start to get dirty after a week with cat hair and other stuff. While this won't replace my dyson it gets really close and instead of doing the vacuuming with my dyson every second week I'll now probably only do it once a month.