Roomba® s Series Firmware Release Notes:
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Version 22.29
Rollout Start: October 5, 2022
What’s in this update?
Clean around pet areas
Roomba now recognizes pet bowls and cat litter boxes and recommends a clean zone so you can quickly address the messes left behind by your busy pets. This adds to Roomba’s existing ability to recommend clean zones for sofas, kitchen counters, and more.
Make maps fast
Want to map your home? Maybe you want to map your second floor for the first time, or start over with a floor you’ve already mapped. Map creation is now faster than ever. Follow these instructions to try it out. Just remember to keep the lights on, open doors, and tidy up before you send Roomba into uncharted territory for the first time!
Change your robot’s voice
Want to make Roomba’s voice sound different? With this release and iRobot Home App version 7.0 or higher, you can choose an alternate voice for Roomba in any of our supported languages. Use “Product Settings” on the iRobot Home App main screen to make the change.
Tell Roomba to move on
Does Roomba enter a room where you need a little peace and quiet? Now you can simply press Skip during a job to send your robot to the next room! Requires the iRobot Home App version 7.0 or higher. Learn more here.
Squashed some bugs
We don’t need to bother you with all the details, but our engineering team has been hard at work squashing bugs that our users have reported. Thank you! Here are a few examples:
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Roomba now distinguishes problems with getting onto the Home Base from problems navigating to the Home Base area. You should see fewer “stuck” or “docking trouble” reports in open space far from the Home Base.
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Fixed a case where a Roomba s9 in Careful Drive mode would hesitate near walls instead of cleaning along the wall.
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Updated Directed Room Cleaning to reduce cases where the robot travels outside of the requested rooms in an effort to enter difficult-to-reach spots
Version 22.21.01
Release Date: 2022.07.13
- Support for custom cleaning routines
- Bug fixes and usability improvements
Version 22.7.2
Release Date: 2022.04.20
- Charging/Docking new lightring patterns and app control
- Improvement to ‘Bin Full’ detection algorithm
- Child lock full feature
- Bug fixes and usability improvement
Version 3.20.7
Release Date: 2021.11.08
- Turkish language support for robot voice
- Bug Fixes and Usability Improvements
Version 3.18.11
Release Date: 2021.09.08
Usability Improvements:
- New ‘Careful Drive’ feature on the S9 that helps the robot clean within the user’s home with minimal bumps to furniture and obstacles.
- New LED charging behavior to indicate battery status when the robot is charging on the dock.
- Quiet Drive: Turn off cleaning components of the robot when traveling to and from the dock/rooms (not in active clean cycle).
- Do Not Disturb mode for i7, m6 and s9 robots to set no run times for robot missions
Bugs Resolved:
- Improve Do not Disturb feature errors
- side brush functioning during traversal
- robot retries post error 121
- improvements to ‘drunken behaviors’
- ‘failed to evac’ issues at the end of a mission
Version 3.14.16
Release Date: 2021.05.10
Usability Improvements:
- Reduce long lasting hazards on the mapping for better coverage
Bugs Resolved:
- Customers reporting robot circling randomly in missions.
- Robots taking inefficient paths for cleaning mission
- Robots exhibiting waving movements and taking wavering paths while cleaning
Version 3.12.8
Release Date: 2021.01.20
- Adds ability to start a mission with the Bin sensor reading 'Full Bin'. The user needs to have the bin setting turned to 'Continue cleaning when Bin Full' to be able to start such missions.
- Bug Fixes & Usability Improvements.
Version 3.10.8
Release Date: 2020.09.03
- Bug Fixes & Usability Improvements.
Version 3.10.7
Release Date: 2020.09.03
- Bug fixes.
- Usability improvements.
Version 3.8.5
Release Date: 2020.07.28
- This firmware update addresses an issue with maps displaying non-existent rooms. If your map displays this issue, you can either update your Smart Map using a Clean Map or delete and retrain your map
- Bug fixes.
- Usability improvements.
Version 3.6.8
Release Date: 2020.04.14
- Bug fixes.
- Usability improvements.
Version 3.2.9
Release Date: 2020.02.20
Version 3.2.4
Release Date: 2019.11.10
- Smart Charge and Resume enables your Roomba® s9 Series robot to intelligently recharge for only the remaining amount of time needed to finish the cleaning job.
- Bug fixes.
- Usability improvements.
Version 3.0.11
Release Date: 2019.09.17
- Keep-Out Zone in App functionality
- Bug fixes.
- Usability improvements.
Version 1.14.22
Release Date: 2019.06.28
- Usability improvements.
- Bug fixes.
Version 1.14.19
Release Date: 2019.06.19
- Bug fixes.
- Usability improvements.
Version 1.14.17
Release Date: 2019.05.29
- Initial firmware release with robot.
