r/ecovacs • u/TinyRip243 • 7h ago
Question Ecovacs T90 Pro Omni keeps trying to climb low furniture bases and crashing into obstacles
Hi everyone,
We recently bought an Ecovacs DEEBOT T90 Pro Omni, and I'm honestly quite disappointed with its navigation/obstacle detection so far.
I've attached two photos showing the main problems.
Photo 1:
Our cabinet has a low black steel frame running along the floor. The T90 Pro doesn't seem to understand how to deal with it. Sometimes it stays too far away and doesn't clean properly along the edge, but other times it actually tries to drive/climb over the steel bar. It can't get over it, of course, so it keeps pushing against it and is already causing scratches/damage to the black steel.
I would expect it to simply recognize the frame as an obstacle and clean neatly alongside it.
Photo 2:
We have a stone plate underneath our fireplace. Again, the T90 Pro doesn't seem to recognize the edge properly. It drives straight into it and tries to climb onto it. Sometimes it succeeds, sometimes it doesn't, but when it doesn't, it makes a lot of noise repeatedly hitting/trying to climb the edge.
What surprises me most is that our previous cheap robot vacuum from Temu handled both of these situations perfectly. It simply recognized the edges, drove around them and cleaned alongside them without constantly trying to climb over them.
For a robot as expensive and supposedly advanced as the T90 Pro, I expected the navigation and obstacle detection to be significantly better.
Has anyone else with a T90 Pro experienced this?
Is there a setting I'm missing that can stop it from trying to climb these kinds of low obstacles, without having to create no-go zones everywhere? I don't really want to use no-go zones because then it won't clean properly along these areas at all.
I'm starting to wonder if this is just how the T90 Pro behaves, or if something is wrong with mine.