Trifo Lucy Pet vacuum robot test – Even annoying pet hair is no problem!

Sitting comfortably on the couch and letting someone else do the job? In Germany, we know this from the one or other construction site and its workers. However, today this article is not about the construction site debris, but how best to get the construction site debris out of your own home without your own effort. Conventionally, one or the other reaches for a vacuum cleaner, but we are lazy and let the Lucy from Trifon do the work today. How well the vacuum cleaning robot does, you will find out in the next chapters.

Specifications

Scope of delivery

Black is classy – The Lucy in the Pet variant is shipped in a black and gold packaging with a classy look to the robot. Around the packaging and especially on the back, we find the most important features of the vacuum robot described briefly and with a clear picture. If you open the lid, you get to see a black envelope where you can find the user manual. Unpacking here already becomes an experience.

Under the first cardboard hood, the Lucy is then in a waterproof and dustproof foil. In front of it is the rest of the scope of delivery. This consists of the charging station, the power adapter for the charging station, three wiping cloths and a replaceable suction head, which you get in the Pet Edition. This is later particularly good to be able to suck up pet hair.

Design and finish

Quite unobtrusive from the outside, with an eye-catching gold circle on the hood, the Lucy is now unboxed and ready for a closer look on our end. Basically, we find the usual design of a robot vacuum cleaner here again. Lots of plastic with a shiny layer on the outer skin and filled with technology from the inside. Whereas plastic usually looks a bit “cheap”, it makes a valuable impression here. However, we have to draw attention to the flap when talking about cheap. If you open it to access the most important functions, you get the feeling that the triangular flap could break off at any moment. It wobbles and feels very unstable due to the two small plastic hinges.

Under this flap is a clear bin for dust, a power, home, and reset button, a Wi-Fi LED, and finally a USB charging port. The buttons have a clear feedback and can thus be operated well. How useful an extra USB charging port is can be doubted with the included charging station. However, the dust container in the center is big enough to take quite a few trips. If you remove it by pressing the “push button”, you can take a look at the underside. The installed filters are in an excellently manufactured condition and completely fulfill our expectations. On the outside of the front cap, there is a shock absorber with a built-in camera, as well as a few sensors.

Turning the Lucy upside down, we can now examine even more – First, let’s start on the rear side. There are two elongated contacts for charging at the charging station. A bit further underneath is a container with Velcro fasteners for mounting the wipers. In the center is the heart of the robot vacuum: the suction head, for which we have two variants. A brush is installed as standard, which has brushes equipped in serpentine lines. In practice, this should suck up any dirt from a carpet, for example. To the left and right of it are the large rollers for the robot’s movement. Finally, at the front edge is another roller that can turn in all directions. A little to the side is a rotating brush, for which unfortunately no replacement is included.

Setup via app

To set up the Lucy robot vacuum cleaner, you first need to download the manufacturer’s app. This can be found under the name “Trifo Home” in the Google as well as Apple app store. After a short waiting period for the download, the setup can begin. The first step is to register in the app. You are offered two options, either by cell phone number or by e-mail. If you fill this out and confirm it, you end up on the app’s home page.

To set up the robot vacuum now, you go to the conspicuous “+” in the middle of the display. After selecting the version of the robot vacuum cleaner, you have to follow five small steps. First, you have to press the “Recharge” button for five seconds so that the robot vacuum enters pairing mode. After that, you have to enter your WiFi details in the app. In the next step, you get an instruction for the fourth step – your own cell phone should be positioned at a distance of 20-40 cm in front of the robot vacuum’s camera. A QR code is then displayed on the smartphone, which is scanned and the pairing starts. After a short waiting time, everything is already done. Overall, the process took about 10 to 15 minutes and was easy to do.

Before we started the first run, we looked around a bit in the settings. Here you can manage some options, such as Alexa compatibility or firmware updates. We had the latter performed before a start. We especially want to highlight the maintenance function, where the exact time and use of the nozzle can be displayed without maintenance.

After a few minutes of further configuration, nothing stands in the way of the start. A map is recorded and a route is calculated in the background. This can finally be seen nicely mapped in the app – even other rooms are color-coded separately.

The suction and mopping performance

Enough appraising and chattering – it’s now more than time to make housework easier. After the first “mapping” and finally a first run, you still notice a few initial difficulties with the Lucy. In our case, the vacuum robot got stuck on a corner of the flat carpet in the living room. However, after a small bump, it continued to run without any problems. Later in the further rounds, such a problem did not occur again – according to this, the robot vacuum learns along! The missing laser room measurement system is probably to blame. Here, something new was tried with 3D room recognition and a built-in full HD camera with depth, collision and crash sensors, which still has room for improvement.

On the other hand, we have only positive things to report when it comes to suction performance. In our test, we tested the Lucy in the Pet variant, which can now have up to 4000 pa suction power instead of the standard 3000 pa. The only drawback to the high suction power is the noise, which can sometimes exceed 90 dB and is thus very loud.

With carpets, it is always known to be difficult to loosen pet hair from the carpet sovereignly at the first attempt. Here, the Lucy does an excellent job. If you don’t have any carpets in your home and only hard floors, the 3000 pa is more than enough. The reward is a much quieter apartment.

By changing the nozzle, to the pet variant nozzle, one has a small shaft with decent suction power, which recites the hair. However, you have to be aware of the missing brush, which means that the suction power of the vacuum robot has to be set a bit higher to achieve the same results. If you run the Lucy when you are not at home and have dogs as well as cats, it delivers a significant relief in everyday domestic life.

Lastly, we’ll take a look at the wipe function. Here we have to say that this one disappointed us a bit. You don’t have to worry about the wiping attachment falling off thanks to the adhesive Velcro fasteners, but there is no electric water delivery or other modern wiping technology built into the Lucy here. The cloth is permanently moistened, but basically just a wet cloth is dragged behind it. In addition, we had the problem with the tank draining a bit to one side. Sometimes the vacuum robot has so, by the resulting edge on the tank, stuck on the carpet.

Conclusion

We have come to the end of our test report and our results are positive as well as negative – a balanced mix of everything. We cannot find fault with the scope of delivery. The same applies to the workmanship of the vacuum robot. Unfortunately, we have to make small deductions for the workmanship of the flap. Configuring the Lucy via the app was particularly easy and fast. It is simple and color-coordinated, and all configuration options are easy to access.

The most important thing, the suction power, convinced us very well in our test. 3000 pa with brush are well suited for hard floors. If you set it to 4000 pa, even carpet is no problem. Another optional suction head in the pet version sovereignly removes pet hair from all surfaces. Regrettably, the wiping line can still be improved for this. Overall, the Lucy vacuum robot in the Pet version from Trifo is a good household helper.