Televisions, watches or smartphones ... The last name "Smart" has changed everything, expanding the number of functionalities of devices that a decade ago did what they did and nothing more. This technological breakthrough has also occurred in a segment with as little glamor as was that of the vacuum cleaners a few years ago. However, today, already they have taken a step towards “smarting” cleaning themselves and without needing to be plugged in.
Thus, when one buys a device like the new LG Hombot Square Turbo, it is to be assumed that the minimum that one aspires to is never to pull the flexible tube through all corners of the house. We know that from that moment we will only have to directly press the Start button or program it so that the robot vacuum cleaner is set to clean up on his own one day at a certain time or every day of the week to which we indicate, even being able to program it from the mobile when we are away from home.
Everyone's responsibility will be to choose what we spend the free time we earn thanks to Hombot. To work? Sleep (is it so quiet that it allows it)? Go shopping? Spend more time with the children?
As we said, pulling the vacuum is the minimum that is required, because there is still more, much more. And, apart from having a 10-year warranty on the Smart Inverter engine that is much more powerful and guarantees maximum cleaning efficiency, the LG Hombot Square Turbo claims to be the only robot vacuum cleaner with video surveillance in the world, a feature that, as we will see next, can come in handy at some other time of the day.
I see I see what do you see?
In the previous models and in the new range, with its dual Dual Eye camera and Navi 10 software, the Hombot scans and maps the surface of each room to clean an entire floor of the house in an orderly manner. Your exclusive square design with two side brushes They make him the expert in corners. In addition, its multiple infrared and ultrasonic sensors allow detecting and avoiding all the obstacles with which it is in its path.
Now, with the launch of the latest high-end version of the Hombot, a new function is added: thanks to its third front camera: It becomes our eyes, allowing us to see from our smartphone in real time and from anywhere, everything that happens in our house.
For the LG robot vacuum cleaner to become a video surveillance system, all we need is to have a smartphone with version 4.2 or later of Android or iOS 8 or later, a WiFi network and the LG Smart ThinQ app (available for free in the application store of both operating systems).
From there, what we have to do is open this application and have the robot vacuum on to enjoy the three features associated with the video surveillance system of the Hombot, called Home View, Home Joy and Home Guard. Next we will see how each one can help us in our day to day.
I am multitasking: clean and watch at the same time
Home view is the functionality that we lets see what happens in real time in our house while the Hombot is cleaning. Your dual camera will send everything you see to our phone and we will see it from the same perspective as the robot.
Suppose we have it scheduled at 10:00 in the morning to get it going while we're at work. Simply open this option within the LG Smart ThinQ app to check what happens in our home as seen by the device, moving from room to room at the time he does.
For example, if one of our children stayed at home with Grandma that day because she was not well, we can see what she is doing (from the picture, it seems that she has encouraged herself to get out of bed and is playing with her house of dolls); Or, if we have a pet, it will be possible to see if he has not been re-taught with any of the cushions or where he is walking from the house.
A robot vacuum cleaner remote control
Of course, it is not necessary that the Hombot is working for its video surveillance system to work. Thus, through the option Home Joy, we will can steer and move the robot by pressing the arrows (left, right and forward) that will appear on the smartphone screen.
Possibilities? All that come to mind when we are out and need to take a look at our house. For example, will Teddy have dropped me in some room? Will my son have returned from high school? Have they remembered to take out the garbage? Are everyone already in bed? Although it is clear that children cannot be left alone, we know that the Hombot can cover us and be our eyes if we want to realize that everything is going well.
To move the robot which remote control car and direct it to the room that interests us, the Hombot must be in stand by and we must access the Home Joy option of the Smart ThinQ app.
Go quiet on vacation, I'm in charge
The last of the three video surveillance options is Home guard. And attention, because allows you to configure the device in an alert position to send us images if it detects movement at a point in the house that we specify.
Thus, if we are going to visit the family for the next Christmas holidays and we want to make sure that nobody enters the house, what we can do is place the Hombot in front of the main door and determine this as the “starting point” of so, if it opens, The robot vacuum will detect movement and immediately send five consecutive images to the smartphone, which will allow us to check whether or not the person is our trust.
It can also help us if in summer we go for several weeks and we want to verify that the neighbor irrigates the plants as we are; or if our teenage son arrives at the time we have agreed.
You know, you better see four eyes than two, although two of them are from the same robot vacuum cleaner LG Hombot Square Turbo that helps us to have dirt under the line.
