Bought a new Roborock Vacuum Cleaner? Learn How to Connect Roborock to Wifi for the best experience.
Tired of manually cleaning your house every day? Sick of dust flying around the house during sweeping? Hurt your back doing vacuum cleaning beneath your couch? Honestly, if you have a pretty big apartment, house, or condominium, cleaning your house manually is hard.
With technology, every manual labor that we used to do before can be eased. From manual sweeping to cleaning using vacuums, technology really changes the way we do things and make it much easier to do. Luckily, inventors of technological equipment never stop surprising us with their new and advanced equipment.
If vacuum cleaners are still hard for you to use because you still need to walk around your house, bend over to reach underneath your couch or bed. Then do not worry cause a company named “Roborock” created a technology where you just need to set up the equipment and it will do the job for you.
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How to Connect Roborock to Wifi
What is ROBOROCK?
Beijing Roborock Technology Co., Ltd., or simply Roborock is a company that was established in the year 2014. They started their journey by developing smart technological equipment that would help individuals and improve the way they live.
With their combined expertise, determination, and vision, Roborock gained an investment from one of the biggest technological companies nowadays in China, the Xiaomi Corporation. With the investment from Xiaomi, they have developed convenient technological equipment such as robotic vacuum cleaners.
The first robotic vacuum cleaner that they made is called MI Robotic Vacuum Cleaner. Years passed, and Roborock made significant changes in their products, making innovations to the world of vacuum cleaners up to this day forward.
With the Roborock product, you do not have to walk around the house to clean it, you will not need to bend over and hurt your back just to reach the dust underneath your couch and bed, and you will not worry about dust flying around the house during cleaning. Because they have made vacuum cleaners smart so that you do not have to monitor or go along with them during the cleaning. You can just sit outside, sip a nice warm coffee and it will do the job of cleaning the floor for you.
The convenience that was offered by the product was made more convenient with the application that they have developed to communicate and navigate the robot vacuum.
The application is also can be used on the different models of robot vacuum cleaners that they made. So upgrading your robot vacuum cleaner to another will not be that hard since you can just control and set up different robot vacuums from Roborock using only an application on your phone.
How to connect your robotic vacuum cleaner into the application
To maximize the feature of the Roborock robotic vacuum cleaner we can connect it to wifi and link it to an application. The application is available in the google play store and for iOS users, it is also available through the app store. Let us show through this article how to set up your Roborock robotic vacuum cleaner in the applications that Roborock and Xiaomi created.
Check App Compatibility
The issue with phone application compatibility with Roborock vacuum cleaners’ inadequate WIFI connectivity is one of the key worries. Make sure to use the appropriate app for your particular Roborock model that is installed on your smartphone.
It’s advisable to keep in mind that just a select few Roborock models are compatible with the Roborock app; the remainder only functions with the Mi Home app.
Models compatible with the Roborock app.
• Roborock S5 Max
• Roborock S6
• Roborock S6 Pure
• Roborocks S6 MaxV
Models compatible with the Mi Home app are:
• Roborock Xiaowa E2
• Roborock E3
• Roborock E4
• Roborock S5
Reminder: The user interfaces and features of the Roborock and Mi Home apps are comparable. However, compared to MI Home, the Roborock software is significantly faster and uses less phone memory.
How to connect Roborock to WiFi
You can connect the Roborock S5 Max to WiFi using the Mi Home app. Just follow these steps,
Step 1 Download and install the Mi Home app from the Google Play store or Mi Store on your Xiaomi phone.
Step 2 Log in to the Mi Home app and select your local region.
Note: Skip the above steps if you already have the Mi Home app set up on your smartphone.
Step 3 Now, open the top cover on the Roborock S5 Max to reveal the WiFi indicator light.
Step 4 Press and hold the power button and the Dock/Spot Clean button at the same time until you hear the Reset WiFi voice alert. The WiFi indicator light will start flashing, waiting for a connection.
Step 5 Now, open the Mi Home app and click My devices, and click + in the top right corner.
Step 6. Find Roborock S5 Max from the available devices list. Click on Done to finish the connection. You can find your Roborock S5 Max on the home page of the Mi Home app.
Note: The Roborock S5 Max supports 2.4 GHz wireless networks and doesn’t support 5 GHz wireless networks. Make sure your phone has been connected to the right WiFi band.
Step 7 The WiFi indicator light on the Roborock S5 Max will stop flashing and stay on. You can change settings and perform operations using the app.
Connecting Robotic Vacuum Cleaner to Roborock Application in Android
Here is the step-by-step process of connecting any of your Roborock Robotic Vacuum Cleaners to the Roborock Application using an android device.
- Go to the Google play store, then find and install the Roborock app
- On the Roborock app. You need to log in to your account to continue or you can also register to create an account for Roborock
- You can register using either your phone number or email address
- Once you have decided what method are you going to use to register in the app you need to select your region
- Then enter the preferred method details
- Click the enter code button and wait for a confirmation in your email or SMS, whichever you preferred earlier.
- Tick the circle below to agree to Roborocks User Agreement and Privacy Policy
- Then hit next
- Once you log in or are done registering your account then we can turn on the WiFi feature of your robotic vacuum cleaner to link it to your Roborock account.
- To do that, you can press the dock and spot the clean button on your robotic vacuum.
- For 2-button models you can press the power and dock button.
- Check the WiFi light indicator on your robotic vacuum if it is blinking slowly.
- Once confirmed that the WiFi indicator light is on and blinking, we can go back to the app to add your robotic vacuum.
- Click the + button on the upper right side of the app
- Enable the location permission of the Roborock app, this would detect the nearby robotic vacuum in your location.
- Select the correct robotic vacuum model.
- Once you select your robotic vacuum model, you need to select your Home WiFi and input your Home WiFi password to connect your robotic vacuum model to WiFi.
- Take note that 5G WiFi is not supported
- Select use now to operate your robotic vacuum cleaner or you can also select your desired robotic vacuum cleaner in the application dashboard.
Connecting Robotic Vacuum Cleaner to Roborock Application in iOS
- Go to the app store, then find and install the Roborock app
- On the Roborock app. You need to log in to your account to continue or you can also register to create an account for Roborock
- You can register using either your phone number or email address
- Once you have decided what method are you going to use to register in the app you need to select your region
- Then enter the preferred method details
- Click the enter code button and wait for a confirmation in your email or SMS, whichever you preferred earlier.
- Tick the circle below to agree to Roborocks User Agreement and Privacy Policy
- Then hit next
- Once you log in or are done registering your account. You will be redirected to the page where you need to add your robotic vacuum cleaner.
- Click the + sign on the upper right side of the page
- You can also click the box that says “Add robotic vacuum cleaner”
- Select the model of your robotic vacuum cleaner
- Follow the instruction on how to turn on the WiFi feature of your robotic vacuum model.
- Check your robotic vacuum if the WiFi light indicator is blinking slowly
- If the WiFi light indicator is blinking slowly then you can tick the circle below to verify that the light indicator is blinking slowly
- Hit next
- You need to select your Home WiFi and input your Home WiFi password to connect your robotic vacuum model to WiFi.
- Take note that 5G WiFi is not supported
- Click connect to device WiFi, you will be redirected to your WiFi settings
- Select and connect to WiFi that starts with “robot _vacuum”
- Go back to the Roborock App to prompt the connection of your device, robotic vacuum, and network.
- Select use now to operate your robotic vacuum cleaner or you can also select your desired robotic vacuum cleaner in the application dashboard.
How to Connect Roborock to Wifi on iOS
Step 1 Download the Roborock from the App Store.
Step 2 Select your current region and register for a Roborock account by your phone number.
Step 3 Connect the robot cleaner to the Roborock app.
Notes
- Make sure your phone is already connected to Wi-Fi.
- Open the top of your cleaner to see the Wi-Fi indicator light during the connection process.
Step 4 Tap on the + icon to add a device.
Step 5 Tick “Blue Light Blinking”.
Step 6 Select your home Wi-Fi and input your Wi-Fi password.
Step 7 Tap “Connect to robot Wi-Fi”.
Step 8 Select the Wi-Fi network named roborock-vacuum-xxxx to connect.
Step 9 Go back to the Roborock app and the connection interface will appear. Wait until it connects successfully.
Note: The Wi-Fi indicator on the top of your vacuum will go from flashing to solid if it has connected successfully.
Step 10 Tap the device on the Roborock homepage to Access the device to operate and wait until initializing reaches 100%.
What are the things that you can do on your Roborock App
Once you have connected your device to the Roborock App and your Home WiFi. A lot of features are being unlocked and you can use all of those features to manage your robotic vacuum cleaner. Let us talk about the features of the application that are useful to different situations at your home.
Mapping
Once you started cleaning for the first time the robotic vacuum cleaner will automatically do the mapping of your house. For better mapping results you can remove unnecessary obstacles on the floor. Once the robotic vacuum is done cleaning and doing the mapping you can do a lot of things with the generated map. Before doing the initial cleaning and mapping you need to make sure that your robotic vacuum cleaner is fully charged to make sure that it will cover all of your floor areas.
Selective Room Cleaning and Schedule
One simple way to use the Map built by your robotic vacuum is you can select a specific room for it to clean. So it is not necessary to clean all the floor area in one go. You can also schedule how many times the robotic vacuum would clean a specific room. If you would like to cover more than one room then you can also merge rooms using the Roborock App. You can merge it you can also manually split it and name your room the way you wanted it.
No Go Zone
Another way to use the map is the No Go Zone, wherein you create a line in the app that serves as a barrier for the robotic vacuum.
Cleaning Power
If you want to save battery or you think that the room is not that messy, then you can change the suction power of your vacuum based on your cleaning needs.
Remote Viewing
For other robotic vacuum cleaners. They can use remote viewing, wherein you do not need to be in the room to see what is happening on it. You can relax in your garden while checking the cleaning progress of your robotic vacuum cleaner.
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