Dreame x40 best robovac I've ever owned

I've been through a lot of toys but this is the first one I can say is earning it's keep. I wish I had known about this when we were remodeling the house and I would have plumbed it.

It takes 5-6 hours to finish the entire first floor. Can't count the number of times it goes back to wash the pads and heat up the next batch of water but I do have to empty the gray water once a day and refill the regular one at the same time.

First vac my wife has ever thought did a decent enough job that she doesn't immediately go behind it with the Dyson and the mop bucket. That's a huge endorsement.

Maintenance: bought one of those $20 kits with extra bags, sweeper wheels, mop heads and filter cartridges. In 6 months of daily usage I've gone through about half of those bags.

It can get clogged up if something big gets sucked up so I check it from time to time.

Navigates over jute rug and gets in tight areas I would never have believed it could.

Instead of sucking up the random iPhone charger cable my wife unplugged and left on the ground it takes a picture and tells me it's a cable and it avoids it.

It's also ridiculously quiet compared to all my other robots.

Our floors seem completely clean but at the end of the day that water I dump is super nasty. Like where is that coming from?

I buy the formula for the mop that you top off in the base and it's like $20 on Amazon. I'm on my second bottle in 6 months and that vacuum runs for hours ever day so it's totally worth it.

Once a week I pop the cover on the base and check the bag and mop solution. Swap the pads on the vac which I don't even need to do because it washes them and they seem just fine when I take them off. I take the little filter out of the vac bin and rinse it under the sink and set it in the sun to dry and swap in a dry one in the cabinet. I also take the mop head cleaner Assembly out of the base and wash the scuz and animal hair off and do a quick wipe of the "drain" in the base because it can get gross after a week of non stop cleaning.

It runs in AI mode and will go back reclean rooms or areas it thinks are still dirty without my intervention.

The HA integration is super sweet but that's just gravy.

I haven't touched my roborock in months. It developed a short so it doesn't recognize the mop pad but it's a pos compared to this bad boy anyway. Way too high maintenance.


Tl;dr this is a fantastic vac and I can't think of a single reason to hate on it

ETA I'm redoing this dashboard so I know it's ugly but zoom in on the house rooms and you can see the path it's made and how well it's getting into every nook and cranny. It's relaxing to sit and watch it make "contrails" in real time.

Really really does a great job. The new integration will now throw "Polaroids" of pets on screen it sees while vacuuming.