I have a Roomba j7+. It uses a camera. It works ok but takes forever to finish with all of the obstacles we have in our rooms. I’m considering buying one of the Roborock Lidar models. I read that they are more efficient with their routing and working around obstacles. I also like that they don’t require lights to be on (I run it at night downstairs so turning on lights is not a huge deal, but still…).
If you have one of these, let me know how you like it. Also, how well does the integration work? For the roomba, I put an entry on my google calendar to schedule it to run and I have a node red flow to turn on lights when the vacuum runs (which I suppose I wouldn’t need anymore).
I’d appreciate any input.
Thanks!
IMHO, Roborock is superior. I spent several days over the past week at a friends house trying to implement a “good” solution with Roomba. Could not get it to link and then when I did, can’t get a map or room numbers … all of which seems to be much easier with the Roborock.
Others may have different opinions but I eventually gave up trying to map rooms in the Roomba integration.
Another vote for Roborock.
Roborock is awesome with HA, automation, sensors exposed, etc. There isn’t much I can’t do with both my Roborocks and HA.
Disclosures:
I have only ever owned Roborocks
I have a S7, and Qrevo Edge (The Edge basically runs itself)
My S7 is good, but it’s getting long in the tooth and doesn’t have the better avoidance so it gets stuck on obstacles, is getting louder with age, but it is a great basement option for me
If I find a deal I would buy another Edge in a heartbeat, BUT I really want to try the one with the arm that picks up obstacles and moves them for me
Roomba (irobot) might be cheaper to buy (the company) 
Any route you choose, better let them suck all of your data so you don’t risk the manufacture disables their device you payed for 
Thanks for the responses.
So is it really true that the Roborock ones clean more efficiently? My downstairs area is probably about 2000 sq ft. There are dining room and nook tables with a total of 12 chairs so I expect it’s spending a lot of time working around those. I could put them upside down on the tables but I’d rather not bother. Anyways, it takes at least 5.5 hours to finish and has to recharge 2 or 3 times. I’m looking for reviews that will tell me if the Roborocks are going to finish quicker, but so far nothing has given me clear guidance. I’ll continue looking.
I know this follow-up question is not HA related, but I’d appreciate any feedback.
Whole house here is abut 2.5 hours, 2400sqft with a Roborock S7. I would note that I rarely do a "“whole house” … I have 7 rooms and can clean 1, 2 or 3 at once. That is the frequent used areas
We have a Roborock Q7 Max. It can clean 10 to 16 sq ft per minute depending on the level of difficulty. We do selective cleaning and remove any obstacle we can. The longest run I see in the history took 84 min and covered 980 sq ft, no mopping. I think it was done on a single charge.
My last basement clean with my S7 was 463 sq ft in 52 minutes.
My last main floor clean with my Qrevo was 484 sq ft in 56 minutes.
I just replaced the battery in my S7 so it doesn’t have to go back and recharge 2-3 times.
I, also, divide up my main floor (1400 sq ft) into different days and times. Common areas every day vacuum, mop every other day. Vacuum bathrooms on days common areas are mopped, mop them on days that common is only vacuumed. Vacuum bedrooms (3) every other day, same day as common mopping. Different times manage battery life.
Similar type of setup in the basement with another bathroom and 2 more bedrooms.
After you get the maps set I let mine run during the day when I’m usually at work or in my office.
I’ve been doing the entire downstairs 2x week. I never tried to do it in sections on different days. Maybe I can try that. I assume both the Roomba and Roborock integrations allow subsets of all the rooms to be initiated. In the Roomba app, it looks like I would create difference schedules, then start them from HA. Any idea if this would be the same for Roborock? Or maybe it’s easier?
In any case, it sounds like the Roborocks would be quicker. I also woundn’t mind having mopping capability which I don’t have now. Our kitchen, nook, and entry are tile. The entry does have a large throw rug in the middle of it which we’d rather not have to remove (and we’d like it vacuumed anyways). I assume a mopping vacuum can deal with this.
It’s just me and my wife in the house now so nothing gets super dirty. And we have cleaners than come in every other week to clean the whole house. So, this is just to keep the downstairs carpets and floors clean in between.
Last night I tried to figure out which Roborock would be a good choice. There’s an insane number of models. I gave up lol. If anyone cares to tell me which line to focus on, feel free :).
Automations are super easy in HA with Roborocks. The hardest part is identifying your rooms, which you have to do once.
Both of my Roborocks, and every one I have seen has carpet detect which does two things: 1) Carpet Boost to suck more dirt out of carpets 2) Raise the mop so it doesn’t get the carpet wet and put junk on the mop
I’d start with the Qrevo Series and pick what features you want. Don’t know your Budget, but I have the Qrevo. Higher end, but it is totally contained and don’t much except clean the sensors once a month and empty the dirty water and add clean water when needed.
Well, since Irobot company is going to bankrupt, the choice is easy to do. But I read somewhere that Roborocks firmware need to connect to the cloud occasionally so running it permanently locally is not possible. Is it true ?
That seems to be true as all the valuable data like the map of your(!) house is actually downloaded from the cloud 
Map data and routines are always fetched through the cloud, and Dyad and Zeo devices are cloud only.
Oh, interesting. I guess I totally missed the info about iRobot’s financials. I guess maybe it is time to switch to Roborock.