1. It's headless and brainless and aimless and blind and just randomly wanders around so do not expect it covers the whole pool and pick up all the leaves in a single run. I usually let it go two or three cycles until achieves a satisfied outcome if I'm at home.
2. Factory filter does not pick up fine dust but I'm ok with that. Let it stirs up and the pool filter will do the job.
3. Finer filter may decrease the wall climbing ability.
4. It climbs the wall and steps but it doesn't like to stay in the shallow water for too long.
5. I doubt it'll...Read more

On 1st run after purchase, it worked quite well. However pool was pretty clean only with a few leaves that the captura managed to pick up and it cleaned the waterline quite well.

However on 3rd run, it does not clean the waterline anymore. Sent an email through baracuda website before xmas and got no response.

After xmas, ran the captura once again and its performance just keep going downhill. Not only does it not clean the waterline anymore, it now requires 3 cycles to pick up everything on the pool floor. Sent them another email recently ...Read more

If you've read through these reviews, then you'll know what the main focus points are, so these are them;

1. It doesn't climb walls.....tries hard ....and keeps trying and trying and trying.....until it stops. I know there are videos with it climbing walls .....but it wont....and with full suction on (& no it's not a tile pool)
2. No smarts at all - would work its way into a corner and then just stay in that area. No machine learning or scanning etc.
3. Once its cycle finishes, it just stays wherever it's finished & you cant maneuver it out....Read more

I used to have another robotic pool cleaner (Hy-Clor Pro) which did a good job but sadly it died after about 5 years of faithful service. I didn't realise how much I missed it, until I started manually vacuuming my 10 x 5 m fibreglass pool each weekend. It wasn't just the waste of time; I then had to backwash my sand filter as so much of the finer debris didn't get caught in the filter sock/basket. That wasted a lot of water, which is a precious commodity here now.

So I started hunting for a replacement and was surprised how much the price had...Read more