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: #9522 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.

Effective at controlling Roomba's operations
These are worth having if your Roomba did not come with then or not with enough of them.

When set as a virtual wall, it will not allow Roomba to enter certain areas such as the bathroom.

When in Lighthouse mode, Roomba will pass through into another room and, after done with cleaning there, it will guide it back to the charging station.

Depending on how wide the passages you need to protect/signal, it can be set to 0-3ft., 4-7ft. or 8+ft.

It requires 2 C-cell batteries.

It seems to be 100% effective as a virtual wall when placed properly and close to 100% effective as a lighthouse.