Chasing Hydro 4 Inground Pool Vacuum Cleaner | 50ft Corded Pool Robot for Floor, Wall & Waterline Cleaning | Smart App Control | 5070 GPH Suction Perfect for Pool Opening Season

The Poolmate Hydro 4 does a great job cleaning the pool floor, walls, and waterline, and the suction power is impressive. The app is easy to use, and setup only took a few minutes. The only downside is that the cord can sometimes get tangled, but overall it is worth the price. It cleans the bottom and walls well, but it does not float on the surface to pick up leaves. Large leaves and debris on top of the water still need to be removed manually or with a skimmer. If you mainly need something for surface leaves, this may not be the best choice.

This order arrived to my house on Monday, June 23. I unpacked it and installed it into the waterproof electrical box I used for my previous cleaner in pretty short order. Downloaded the app, and configured the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth with no issues as other people have previously mentioned; I guess they are just idiots. It took me 10 minutes, tops. This included a firmware upgrade. Everything worked as it’s supposed to. My pool is 20 x 40 with an 8 foot deep end. Two jets, two ladders, two sets of steps in the shallow corners. my biggest issue with the pool is tree debris from neighboring trees. Bark, twigs, leaves. After it sits in the pool, it decomposes and breaks down and turns into fine particulate matter. I played around with the manual setting on the floor for a while. Very cool to be able to go exactly where you want to go and get large piles of debris, dirt, leaves, pool, funk. I then created a custom setting. My parameters were floor only, S-shaped pattern, four hours. This video shows that it loves to hit the walls. In spite of the fact I selected floor only. The walls on my pool stay fairly clean. If this thing would stick to the program, it would probably do a pretty good job. However, if this first run is any indicator, I’m going to be returning this unit to Amazon in very short order. In the five minutes, it took for me to draft this review, it has climbed the walls and additional five times. In fact, I dare say it has spent more time on the walls than on the floor, even though it is supposedly on floor only mode. I will give it a few more days and see if it possibly needs to map my pool in order to perform better. If not, thank goodness it’s on prime, and I will just send it back and try another unit. If the situation improves, I will update my review and my stars. June 24 update: So, I will say it did a superb job of cleaning. I had a very heavy amount of debris since my old cleaner has been dead a month. It does not follow an S-pattern even when using one of the canned floor only formats. It just randomly scoots along, covering a solid 95% of my total floor space. I got the remaining 5% with the manual setting. It did not scrub the walls with this format either. As it approached the vertical surface, it would stop, pivot, and proceed. I think this is where the lack of S-pattern comes in. It does not do a precise 180 degree turn every time, causing it to go off in angles all over the place. My initial review was a 3, I will bump it up to 4, with considerations to a 5. I was skeptical with its initial performance out of the box. I have a large pool and would like the ability to manually program it to do what I want, as advertised. As long as it is durable and maintains this level of cleaning performance, I might forego the advertised features and give it 5 stars. July 17 update. Unit has lost connection and says it is not in the water. Neither is the case. I still have a 6 day window to send it back to Amazon for a full refund, so off it goes. Shame because it has potential. Cleaned well but programming bugs could not be overcome.

This robotic pool cleaner does an excellent job keeping the pool spotless. Even though it’s a corded version, it’s very easy to use and the cable doesn’t get in the way. It has strong suction and picks up dirt, leaves, and debris efficiently. Setup was quick, and it runs smoothly without any issues. I also appreciate how reliable and consistent it is compared to some wireless models. Overall, a great value and highly effective—definitely recommend!

I waited to write a review because I wanted to relate how well this pool robot performs over time. Opening our pool this Spring was a disaster. Unlike other years when the pool was crystal clear to the bottom when we removed the winter cover, this year we couldn't see more than a few inches below the surface. After running hundreds of dollars of chemicals through the filtration system constantly for two weeks (my electricity bills prove it) little had changed. Being able to see the bottom of the pool was a distant memory. In desperation, we bought the Poolmate Hydro 4 Pool Robot Cleaner - primarily because it does not use the pool's filtration system to clean the pool. Dirt and debris are collected in the Robot's filter bin. We chose the hybrid version of the Poolmate 4 with both corded and cordless components because we were in such a bad situation. We began with the corded version of the robot along with the ultra fine filter (additional cost but well worth it for our extremely dirty pool). The corded version meant we didn't have to keep charging the battery buoy (which lasts for about two hours before needing a recharge). Within a few hours we could see the bottom of the pool. A day later and the water was clear. Now we run the cordless robot with the standard filter to collect leaves and other large debris and it does an amazing job. If pollen or sand accumulate, we clean with the ultra fine filter and it's gone. Totally gone. But the best feature of this setup is the Customer Service. They are responsive to a fault. Any issues or questions we have had have been quickly resolved. The folks we have dealt with have all been thoughtful and helpful and generous with their time and expertise. I am so glad we bought this brand. The robot climbs the walls and cleans the waterline as advertised. The pool floor is spotless when it's done. And I can't say enough good things about the company behind it! If I had to buy another, I would buy the Poolmate in a minute!

Initial findings - just unboxed and got it running... 1. Positive - fairly lightweight 2. Positive - nicely packaged with foam holding parts and plastic wrap holding coils. 3.Negative - the manual you download from the website and the QR code to download the program is in that download... for my phone I needed to send the link to someone else so I could scan it from their phone into mine. 4. Positive - the program was fairly easy to connect and use but I had to agree to AI and I am not seeing what benefit that may have been, maybe later? 5. Positive - clean basket, nice suction 6. Negative - it appears that to turn around it has to jog forward then backwards then forwards, etc a number of times... I think that all the treads and scrubbers are run by one motor and one of the rear foam pieces is larger so it rotates the unit to turn - maybe not a negative as one less motor to fail? 7. Positive - it cleans the wall well as it climbs and looks to do a nice job on them 8. Random Comments in no particular order - there appears to be no logic for a cleaning pattern but after a while it gets it clean - the cable does not have a swivel so you will need to untwist it every so often - there are lights on the front of the unit that can do some interesting patters - No clear way to register the device online (although they do provide a card where you can write the info that the app gives you for the model and serial number. If this thing lasts a while it may be worth the price... I will update as things happen. If I dont add anything then its probably ok...

I use to use a Polaris pool vacuum that aimlessly roamed around the pool. Having this robot took some pressure off my pool pump so I don’t have to divert so much water flow to pool cleaning. This robot cleans up leaves pretty good after a storm after a couple hours but may get clogged. It also seems to really mix the water as it moves along. Lots of ripples on the surface of the water. I mounted the control box inside a storage container. I wish I paid what the going price is now though. I have concerns about longevity. The treads and other rubber parts are getting pretty worn.

Poor performance. Not what I was hoping for. The cord tangles and twists, dangerously pulling the power box nearly into the pool on our second fry of using it. This happened when we set it in Custom settings to vacuum the floor of a round pool for 4 hours. The vacuum itself is good but the app is really bad. We couldn't get past the email prompt to set up WiFi. After correctly entering our email address several times, we never received an email so that we could get the code in order to access WiFi . Seriously, value for money? You pay a hefty sum for something that should have been fixed before it was put up for sale.

I decided to give 5 star even though I had problem with the cable. Why? Cause I was able to find somewhat solution to that where you stretch the cable a bit and keep it on the sun so the cable will build memory and stay straight for few days. It’s not ideal but it’s better than with no cable where you have to take it out every day and charge it. However I liked that the seller was very responsive and worked with me on the issue. Therefore I don’t mind fixing cable every few days and I’m happy with the product it’s self. Cleans very well and even very small particles which my previous robot didn’t. The only improvement I would add if they would offer warranty to “purchase” for like 5 years so I don’t have to worry about going bad in few years.

Unfortunately the cable kept getting tangled in the brushes in a weird way! The brushes would have eventually been damaged from it.

Funciona bien pero se descompuso muy rapido uno de los motores, solo me duro 8 meses y no he pidido conseguir el repuesto.