J7+ won’t go into narrow spot. Any way to convince it that it fits? (it totally fits)

It needs a certain amount of space around it or it won’t go. It won’t go in that area bc it’s too skinny. Move the bed, run mapping runs until it sees the area, and then move the bed every time you need it cleaned. Ours won’t go behind one door so once it’s in the room we just shut the door and it goes back there. When it’s done we open the door again so it can keep going.

Nope, consider putting a potted plant there and use a broom.

Try moving dog bed and run a mapping run and a regular vacuum run. Put dog bed back. You could also try editing the Smart Map.

Just lift it and put in a corner 🤷‍♂️ I know, manual labor, ugh 😁

Feet!

Is there any way to give it just an extra inch or two? I would then literally pick the bot up and place into that corner and facing the interior of the room. Once it is done in that immediate area, tell it to go home. when it finally does that.... rinse and repeat a few times till it actually maps it. Then you can actually tell the bot to specifically clean that dirty spot more often.

there is probably two inches of extra clearance between this dog bed and cabinets. this is probably the dirtiest part of the house (thanks pupper). I would really like it to go in here, but it seems to think there is an obstacle in the way as the blue light pings right when it sticks it’s nose in the narrow spot.

i think this might be an i7? it has the obstacle avoidance feature. maybe i just turn that off? it will definitely find obstacles to get hung up on in our house.

I would try putting the roomba in there manually and tell it to go home. Maybe that would force it to try to get out and find out that it was a viable path.

J7 is a step down from i7. My first iRobot regret. I've owned them since v1.0