{"id":1488,"date":"2026-10-31T12:50:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T18:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2026-10-31T13:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T19:24:33","slug":"mova-app-carpet-cleaning-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"Mova app: Carpet Cleaning Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I bought a Mova robot vacuum+mop in October 2026.  Specifically the <a href=\"https:\/\/us.mova.tech\/products\/mova-p10-pro-ultra-gen2-robot-vacuum\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/us.mova.tech\/products\/mova-p10-pro-ultra-gen2-robot-vacuum\">Mova P10 Pro Ultra Gen2<\/a>, which is both vacuum <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> mop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You must use their MovaHome app to control the robot (<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.dreame.movahome\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/movahome\/id6499421624\">Apple<\/a>).  The app has <em>lots<\/em> of customization.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are <strong>better descriptions<\/strong> for the choices in \"<strong>Carpet Cleaning Settings<\/strong>\", compared to the descriptions shown in the app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vacuum<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Always vacuum<\/strong> and <strong>never mop<\/strong>: the robot will lift the mop heads while vacuuming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you tap this \"Vacuum\" choice, these additional choices appear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Carpet boost<\/span>: increase vacuum suction power on this carpet<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Clean carpets first<\/span>: Before doing any mopping anywhere, always vacuum this carpet before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Note<\/span>: Elsewhere in app are choices to \"mop only\".  When chosen, this carpet will not be vacuumed, and the robot will probably not even drive onto this carpet at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Avoid<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Never drive onto<\/strong> this carpet: no vacuum and no mopping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Note<\/span>: If a room\/area can be reached <em>only<\/em> by driving over this carpet, robot will never reach reach that room\/area.  See \"Crossing Carpets\" below as alternative<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ignore<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Treat this area <strong>as hard floor<\/strong>, including <strong>vacuum <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> mop<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My recommendation is to simply delete the carpet in the app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crossing Carpets<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Never vacuum <\/strong>and<strong> never mop<\/strong>, but it's ok for the robot to <strong>drive onto<\/strong> the carpet.  This allows the robot to be more efficient during cleaning, and allows the robot to reach rooms\/areas that can be reached only by driving over this carpet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a Mova robot vacuum+mop in October 2026. Specifically the Mova P10 Pro Ultra Gen2, which is both vacuum and mop. You must use their MovaHome app to control the robot (Google, Apple). The app has lots of customization. Here are better descriptions for <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=1488\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}