u/mrblc

This is driving me nuts. For the past 6 months the robot has become progressively worse and worse. I've tried so many things, no difference.

So.. The behavior is that if i try to start a vacuuming run, it drops the mop pads in the docking, moves out of the docking and complains that the mop pads are not there. (even though they are not supposed to join in on the ride.) It used to be that i could turn the robot over, re-seat the pads, put it back down and press resume. This would initiate a positioning process, then it would just resume from where it was. With the latest version of Valetudo, it now no longer does that. Instead, after the positioning, it goes back to the docking, drops the pads, leaves the docking and starts complaining again. Regardless of what i try, this is as far as i can get. in other words, it's become completely useless.

Is anyone familiar with this problem, and have found a solution?

I have tried the following things:
- Rebooting, of course. that is the first thing i tried. It's the fallback between all the various test scenarios below.
- Downgrading Valetudo to an older version where it used to work. - made no difference
- Going through all settings and quirks related to mop pads and set them to all the possible variants of settings. Naturally, the quirk "Detach Mops" is set to "off", but it seems to totally ignore that setting. - made no difference in behavior, at all, and on any of the firmware editions.
- buying new pad holders (because gf found a thread on Facebook where someone had successfully fixed it that way) - no difference.
- Cleaning the mop holders, the mop receptacles, water nozzles and anything related to them accessible from the outside. - made no difference.

If it could at least be able to vacuum, i could get _some_ use out of it, but as it stands it's just taking up space and using power.. (+ annoying me for not working)