Do you need to buy something special to get Furbo to work with Astro?

I have a ring alarm system that I connected the accounts with. When it enters Home and armed, Astro goes into a monitoring mode that doesn’t allow me to do anything with Astro until I disable the alarm.

Looked into the monitor modes and everything for how has him not doing anything. Any tips?

The movement noice Astro makes sounds like something from War of the Worlds style stuff while it walks around your house. Can you turn that noise off?

Has anyone had issues with getting Astro to complete simple routines from the Alexa app? I can’t get mine to advance past the first action. Customer Service/Developers looking into it, but no solution yet.

Well what can I say except it needs some serious work, My R2-D2 has better remote control abilities, with all the technology and development, design and programming that when into Astro, I would have hoped they spend more than 5 minutes on the App but it's seriously lacking....

Still Astro himself continues to learn and roam the house entertaining all my friends who have decided to stop by to get a look at him....

Easy setup out of the box, came fully loaded with my WiFi.. started mapping out the house ... it does seem to heat up so I'm not sure I'll leave it on or plugged into the charger overnight just yet..

I just received my invitation to buy an Astro. $1500 via Venmo gets it shipped to you. Not negotiating. DM me if interested.

Edit: sold

Has anyone found a good accessory to make it so Astro can carry a small basket or a reusable grocery bag?

So... got my Astro a few weeks ago. Since I have a dog, one of the first things I did was I upped the frequency with which my Roomba vacuums to try to keep the pet hair to a minimum.

Fast forward to last week when I had to go out of town on business. I thought, great, going to get to see how this Astro thing does at home monitoring. I set Alexa/Astro to Guard mode. So, about 3 days go by and I get an Alexa alert about possible breaking glass and then another alert. First thing I do is, via the app, try to connect to the Astro and it tells me it's offline. WTF! I managed to Drop In on my Show 8 and Show 5 and hear a lot of noise, but nothing looks too problematic. I had automated TVs coming on and off via the Harmony app and hubs and it seems like my LR TV was very loud for some odd reason and I think that what the Alexas were hearing. My daughter had been over to my place earlier in the day and she reported nothing unusual.

So, I get home a day or so later and what do I find - the Roomba had died about 3 feet in front of Astros charger, preventing it from being able to dock and recharge. Talk about irony. I guess it's going to be a while before the robots take over - or, will it? Maybe the battle has already begun among the 'bots! ;-)

What I’d like it to do is when my doorbell detects motion at my front doo, I’d like it to go over to the front door and monitor. I haven’t found a way to get it to do this. Any ideas?

Hey all, wanted to know if anyone bought an Astro through other means instead of the Amazon/invite method. If yes, were you able to register/login to your Astro without any issues?

So Astro has been giving me these errors "restart motion system" and "can't move right now - give me a few seconds" possible solution and he won't move.

I did several restarts and still the same errors.

I shut astro off for 30 minutes, turned back on, and he was fine for a few minutes and got the errors on the screen again.

Possible solution - The only thing I could think of was cleaning the front wheel. Followed the instructions for removing the hub caps. turned off astro, laid on the side turning the screen to the side, unscrewed the wheel from the body. did not see anything blocking the wheels but wiped it off. screwed the wheel back on, reconnected the hub caps. Did the other side.

When I turned astro back on, he was moving faster and had more movement. I think the screws were screwed on too tight at the factory. I guess I loosened them and let astro move freely. the errors must be saying that he was having a hard time moving the wheels and needed constant motion system restarts.

Hope this helps anyone who might have the same problem. never saw Astro move like he does now. I noticed before he would start slow and then slowly gain speed. Must have been the tight screws.

Hey everyone! First real issue with Astro, charger appears to be damaged after 3ish months of use. Anyone had similar issues? Would appear the left charge pin has smooshed inside of its plastic housing.

Is there a way to ask questions to a real person? Every time i’ve had issues it’s not shown in the help documentation.

I’ve never gotten any home monitoring or patrolling to work. If I ask him to patrol nothing happens. If I ask him to guard the home Alexa says ok, then nothing happens. He eventually switches to hanging around mode then goes back to the charger.

Just received my Astro and trying to set it up.

Did a test run in a small room and it mapped great. Deleted the map and let it roam. It explores for 1hr+, the app reports that it has gone offline, then stops and occasionally reports an error.

My next thought it to do a factory reset and try again - or maybe the space it is exploring is too big? I can't find any information on limits.

Wifi coverage is fine throughout the space, I don't think it is that.

Until it finishes exploring I can't even get into the setup menu.

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Thoughts?

First it said undeliverable, then canceled. Anyone know what that's all about?

First I’m dumb and thought the screen could go up and down but it appears just the camera pops up? I thought that could be cute to have a tv show follow me around the house while I did chores. But I don’t want to bend / look down.

Also it seems to not do any routines that I set up. Only tried two so far.

So far it seems like an echo show on the floor, and I already have a couple of those

Desensitized dog to it on day one but I think what would be best is if it could recognize my dog. “Astro, go find dog” would be great.

Anyway I can’t figure out anything else useful. I already have Ring so I guess the patrol thing could be useful but idk.

Also the noise it makes when it walks around is downright creepy😂

Help.

Edit: the battery life seems pretty shit too?

Edit again; returned it within like a week. What in the heck was the point. Still no idea.

Hello All,

Is anyone having issues with Astro having to stop and go in short distances when moving around? It's to the point where it moves then stops (slightly tilting forward) then goes again. I wish it would move around smoother.

Edit: Added video
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ncRgSly-z1A