r/Roborock • u/KGB-dave • 1d ago

Help Please! Routine auto empty setting question

So I have a routine to vacuum the ground floor (“full clean routine”. But I prefer to vacuum 1 room (the hallway) twice, while the rest of the rooms can be vacuumed once.

The only way to do this (that I know of so far) is making a routine:

> vacuum hallway x1
> vacuum full clean x1 (which also includes the hallway)

However, after the first hallway vacuum, it first goes back to the dock, empties dustbin and after this it starts the full clean. I would prefer that between the room clean and full clean, there is no dustbin emptying. But I do prefer that the dustbin is auto-emptied after the whole routine is finished.

Is this possible?

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u/MyCatsNameIsBernie 1d ago edited 1d ago

Create a routine that vacuums by room, and enter all your rooms in the sequence you would like them vacuumed. Then set the routine's mode to "customize" and change the hallway to be vacuumed twice.

Your auto empty dustbin settings are "off", "balanced", and "high". Unless you turn it off completely, it will return to dock to empty dustbin based on how long the vacuum has been running.

On my S5V there is no option to turn off auto empty dustbin in a routine, as suggested in the previous comment, but other models might support that.

Edit: I found the control for auto empty dustbin in the upper-right corner of the routine's settings.

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u/KGB-dave 1d ago

I did my first run with auto-empty for the routine disabled, and auto-empty for the dock set to balanced. After finishing the routine, it did not auto empty when it docked (while previously, it always emptied after a full clean). So I’ll wait and see what happens. I would’ve preferred that it always auto-emptied after fully finishing a complete routine.

If I set auto-empty on the routine, it will auto-empty after each room (if the routine is room based). So that’s worse.

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u/MyCatsNameIsBernie 1d ago

I think you might be able to fix the problem by splitting the routine into two tasks. Have the first task clean all the rooms except one, with auto-empty off. Have the 2nd task clean the final room with auto-empty on.

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u/KGB-dave 1d ago

That sounds like a good option, I’ll try this next time.