With its 3.2 inch height low-profile design, Ecovacs Deebot 711 robot vacuum cleaner with Smart Navi 2.0 can easily clean dirt from under furniture and hard-to-reach places. You can start, stop, or charge your DEEBOT with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, the remote control, or from your mobile device with ECOVACS Home app. Your robot cleans at a non-intrusive and low noise level, leaving a quiet space for your family and activities.
Key Specifications
- Review Price: £270
- Up to 110 minutes run-time
- Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant compatibility
- 0.52-litre bin
- Integrated filter
- Standard and Max modes
- Wi-Fi and app connectivity
Comparison – Ecovacs Deebot 711 robot vacuum cleaner with Smart Navi 2.0
| DEEBOT 711 | DEEBOT 661 | DEEBOT OZMO 920 | |
| Navigation Technology | Smart Navi 2.0 (Optical) | Hard Floor + Random | Smart Navi 3.0 (Laser) |
| Automatic Charging | Recharge | Recharge | Recharge & Resume |
| Run Time | Up to 110 Min | Up to 110 Min | Up to 110 Min |
| App Control & Scheduling | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Alexa & Google Assistant | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Obstacle Detection & Anti-Drop | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Cleaning Report with Full Map | ✔ | – | ✔ |
| Full Cleaning & Path Planning | ✔ | – | ✔ |
| Virtual Boundaries & Area Mode | – | – | ✔ |
| Mopping | – | ✔ | ✔ |
| Carpet Detection | – | – | ✔ |
Ecovacs Deebot 711 robot vacuum cleaner with Smart Navi 2.0 review
Design
We’re way past the point now that you can tell the quality of a robot vacuum cleaner simply by looking at it. Despite costing around £300, the Deebot 711 looks every bit as good as one of the more expensive models, such as the Ecovacs Deebot Ozmo 930.
As with Ecovacs’ other robots, the Deebot 711 has a round body. It’s short and squat, so ideal for getting under sofas – but not so good at getting between chair legs and the like.✕
The 711 sticks close to the specs of other Deebots, with a sleek circular shape that’s 13.9 inches across and 3.3 inches high. An Auto-mode button and the vacuum’s vSLAM camera are embedded in the top. Underneath, it’s equipped with a single roller brush and two spinning side brushes
On top, you’ll find a single button that starts the vacuum cleaner in auto mode and gets it cleaning. If you want a little more control, then there’s also a remote in the box, which lets you start a general clean, edge clean only or spot clean (the robot cleans up a small area after you’ve carried it where you want it).
The Deebot 711 has its bin at the rear. It unclips, slides out and then folds open for emptying. The bin is fairly easy to empty once you get the hang of it and, at 0.52-litres, is a decent size too.
Flip the robot over and on the underside, you’ll see dual side brushes for sweeping dirt into the main suction path and the rotating brush bar. You can lift out the brush bar and clean it, and use the provided razor to cut away any hair wrapped around it. The side brushes need replacing every 150 hours, the main filer every 120 hours, and the main brush every 300 hours. The app keeps track of replacement times so you don’t have to.
Dustbin Capacity
The 711’s dust bin capacity is 520 ml, which is on the smaller end of the spectrum. To give some perspective, the Roomba 980 has a 600 ml dustbin and the Neato Botvac D7 has an 700 ml dustbin.
We had to empty the dust bin after every vacuum cycle with the 711. With other robot vacuums, like the Neato Botvac, we could get away with two vacuum cycles before having to empty the bin.
Suction & battery
The suction power on auto-mode is very good (500 pa). Auto-mode works exceptionally well on hardwood floors, picking up dust, pet hair, and even small leaves. On max mode, the 711 has strong enough suction (1000 pa) to get carpets clean and virtually free of pet hair. There’s also a spot cleaning mode for small, concentrated messes.
The battery life is pretty good (110 minutes) too, and the vac will auto return to the dock when the battery is low. It takes four hours for the battery to reach a full charge.
Cleaning modes – Ecovacs Deebot 711 robot vacuum cleaner with Smart Navi 2.0
Connecting the Deebot 711 to the Ecovacs Home app gives you more control over it. From the main menu, you can start the Auto, Edge or Spot cleans. You can also schedule a clean to take place on a regular basis, if you don’t want to have to start the cleaner automatically.
There’s an option to override the power setting of the vacuum, placing it on maximum power for greater suction using less battery life. Ecovacs says that the robot takes around 4.5 hours to charge and should last 110 minutes on standard power.
When the vacuum starts cleaning it generates a cleaning map, which you can view at the end through the app. You can’t do anything with the map, though, since the cleaner doesn’t support virtual walls.
Noise
Running on standard power, I measured the Deebot 711 at 64.6dB. That’s only half the story – the robot is really quite loud, with a clunky, mechanical sound coming from the rotating brush bar. Whacking up the power to Max, and the vacuum reaches 66dB. It definitely isn’t the quietest cleaner I’ve tested, and certainly one of the most annoying to listen to.
Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant
It’s good to see that the Ecovacs Deebot 711 has support for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Once the skill is connected, you can get the cleaner to start or pause a clean, or return to dock using your voice. The commands are the same on both systems, and they work well – it’s surprisingly useful to be able to start or stop a clean with a simple spoken command.
On carpet, the Deebot 711 left a good chunk of the powder left and you can clearly see the outline of the “X” left in the middle of the carpet in the shots below. That’s a shame, as I’ve seen cheaper cleaners do better.
Smart Navigation – Ecovacs Deebot 711 robot vacuum cleaner with Smart Navi 2.0
Ecovacs claims the 711’s Smart Navi Mapping Technology “creates the perfect systematic S-cleaning path” and that bore out it my tests. Whereas many robot vacuums ping-pong around the room at the whim of their various sensors, the 711 moved purposefully, not unlike a person would with a standup vacuum. Its front bumper sensor rarely came into contact with any walls or furniture; rather, it seemed to “see” obstacles and change direction before impact.
The 711 maneuvered easily around chair and table legs, electrical cords, pet-food dishes and other obstacles. Thanks to its low height, it was also able to get under my couch and out again without requiring my assistance.
It generally did a great job of sucking up the pet hair, food crumbs, dust, and dirt littering the carpet and hardwood on my downstairs floor. After one cleaning, there was still some stubborn debris on the carpet, so I sent the vacuum out again with Max suction, which doubles the power to 1000pa.
In addition to Auto mode’s S-shaped cleaning pattern, there is an Edge mode that sends the vacuum around the perimeter of the room, and a Spot mode that performs concentrated cleaning in a swirl pattern on a specific area. These can only be initiated from the remote control or the app.
The Ecovacs Home app offers a few other features besides real-time control. You can schedule cleanings by setting a time, and then selecting the days of the week you want to run the vacuum. You can also view detailed cleaning logs with floor maps, put the vacuum in do-not-disturb mode, and keep track of the lifespan of its brushes and filter.
Cleaning performance
To test the vacuum cleaner’s ability to pick up dust, I spread a mixture of flour and carpet freshening powder on the floor. Starting out, I put “X” marks of the powder on a hard floor, positioning one by the side of the room and one in the middle. I then set off the Deebot 711 to clean.
Performance was sub-par. In the middle of the room, the vacuum cleaner spread some of the dirt around and missed those caught in scratches in the floor, showing that it either can’t agitate the dirt enough or its suction isn’t powerful enough.
At the side of the room, the Deebot 711 managed to pick up most of the spill, although it wasn’t powerful enough to suck up powder caught in the cracks in the old floorboards. It was a passable approach here.