My neighbor has a leafy tree above my fairly-large pool, and it becomes a nightmare in the fall. Therefore I'd like to acquire a pool robot that has a large capacity and can run multiple times a day.
I feel fine with setting up my own smart timer (it's not hard nowadays to find an outdoor one configurable by smartphones), but seemingly the robot power supplies are nowadays too "smart" that they don't allow for the simplest mode of operation: robot runs if the external timer turns it on (and stops when turned off). Even those that claim to support "external timer" seems (as described by the manuals) to only support the latter part, and still requires manually turning the robot on _after_ the external timer turned power on, which makes the external timer feature essentially pointless.
Of course, I also prefer the robot cleaner to be atheistic, easy to clean, power efficient, etc., but I know I am asking too much.
Have I misunderstood anything? Is there really no market for a robot that runs more frequently than usual or completely obey an external timer schedule?
I feel fine with setting up my own smart timer (it's not hard nowadays to find an outdoor one configurable by smartphones), but seemingly the robot power supplies are nowadays too "smart" that they don't allow for the simplest mode of operation: robot runs if the external timer turns it on (and stops when turned off). Even those that claim to support "external timer" seems (as described by the manuals) to only support the latter part, and still requires manually turning the robot on _after_ the external timer turned power on, which makes the external timer feature essentially pointless.
Of course, I also prefer the robot cleaner to be atheistic, easy to clean, power efficient, etc., but I know I am asking too much.
Have I misunderstood anything? Is there really no market for a robot that runs more frequently than usual or completely obey an external timer schedule?