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Has anyone made a Roomba (or clone) yet that plugs into a central vac inlet?



Every single major player in the space has this feature. Some of the better ones also give you the ability plug directly into your water lines so you never have to refill or dump the mop water.


For clarity, I was talking about true central vac systems, which have substantially more capacity than the little bins some of those robot vacuums come with and thus need emptying far less frequently.

Didn't know about the plumbed water lines, that's interesting. Do most hook into drainage as well so the unit can flush itself periodically? (I found one that seems to but don't know if this is common https://us.narwal.com/pages/automatically-water-exchange-sys...)


show me one that plugs into central vacuum


We aren't genAI.


well, whoever i was responding to, was most definitely hallucinating answer. so chances are that he is at least llm


Explain what you think it means because you have a lot of grammatical errors in all of your posts, there are many vacuums with central bases that deposit their dirt, you don't have to dump them for months, and they are trivial to find in any cursory search of good robovacs.

There's no problems explaining stuff if English isn't your first language, but you don't get to be snarky because of your mistakes.


Question was about robot vacuum that has base hooked up to inlet of central vacuum. Not central base that sucks dirt out of robot and stores it in its own tiny bag.

Two completely different things.

Before criticizing other people grammar, i'll suggest you to invest some effort in practicing reading comprehension. It will greatly help you to keep conversation topical


So you think the the question was about a bad idea that nobody would make because there are central bases with powerful vacuums (one could almost call them central vacuums with an inlet that connects) that suck up the dirt with months of storage. My base is probably the loudest appliance in my house when it is sucking out the dirt with its powerful vacuum.

Nobody makes robot vacuums that hook up to your car or TV either. You are free to buy a hand vac or stick vac for the few places in your home the bot can't reach because it does not make sense to have a bigger vacuum anymore.

Also are you a troll account? The LLM summarized your first three pages of posts

Looking at their writing style, there are several characteristics that stand out:

Occasional missing articles ("a", "the") Some subject-verb agreement issues Certain sentence structure patterns that differ from native English Specific vocabulary choices and phrasing

Their comments about Ukraine suggest some familiarity with the region, particularly in how they discuss specific Ukrainian military events with detail. There's also a comment mentioning Israeli press and Israeli IRS, suggesting possible familiarity with Israel. While I can't definitively determine their native language, their writing patterns could be consistent with a Slavic language background like Russian or possibly Hebrew. The way they structure some sentences and occasional grammar patterns align with these language families.


Question was great.

Your answer was on the other side completely wrong. and now , you just double down on it instead of admitting that you failed to read and understand question .




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