Product Description

The Virtual Wall Lighthouse uses an invisible infrared signal to help Roomba 500 Series robots achieve the most efficient and thorough room-to-room cleaning possible. Contain Roomba in one room until the room is completely vacuumed before moving on to the next or block off-limit areas in your home. For use with Roomba 500 Series robot models 535 and up.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27948 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: iRobot
• Model: 80201

Features

• Virtual Wall Lighthouse for Roomba 500 Series (models 535 and up)
• Documentation

Customer Reviews

Works as advertised, which is very well!
The Virtual Wall Lighthouse is amazing, turning on and off with the Roomba 500 series via RF. I use a network of 5 of these to keep my Roomba out of the bathroom and to let it know which rooms are which.

Definitely get these over the plain old manually-activated virtual walls. You'll forget to turn them off and they eat batteries. Also, the lighthouse works with rechargeable batteries and the manual ones don't.

Works well to keep roomba contained

This item works in keeping your roomba in a contained space/rooom, just remember roomba will only work with 3 of these at a time. I did not know that until after I had purchased a total of 4 lighthouses.

Return item because Roomba broke down
I have used two of these that came with my Roomba 500 series for slightly over a year. Both the virtual wall and lighthouse features worked well. I agree that it should plug into AC power. I think C sized batteries would be better than the D cells that it uses.

If I were only rating this item alone I would give it 4-5 stars. Unfortunately, I had to return the item because my 500 series Roomba failed just after the 1-year warranty. I had a 400 series that failed just after warranty due to the "circle dance". My 500 series failed because the two main brushes stopped turning with light use and thus it stopped cleaning. From what I have read this was due to a problem of an unsealed gear box with plastic gears. It seems hair would get in and cause the gear box to fail. It seems that the gear box has been re-designed but I do not think that there is any way to know which gear box one is getting when buying the product.

I find that iRobot makes a poorly designed product with very poor customer support. I do not see how they are staying in business. I think the only option to use this product would be with a lifetime warranty.