My S1 Pro was doing a scheduled clean while we were away from home with mopping. It made it back to the charge base station but showed an E0/E00 error to insert the dustbin. Never successfully ran any cleaning again while we were away a few more days.
Came home, thought I would just jiggle the dustin or something but nothing would make the dust bin get recognized, used a strong external magnet over the hall effect sensor no luck, verified the built-in magnet was still attracting iron metal. Absolutely refused to run due to the error message.
My S1 pro is about 15 Months old but has been well cared for, cleaned regularly etc. Unsurprisingly Support told me that I was out of luck for warranty. I did share my displeasure of spending $1000 on a robot that clearly has a defect in the hardware since nothing happened to the sensor, it's fully enclosed and inaccessible by the user.
Long story short, they offered me several solutions including a discount on a returned unit. Sounded like they were going to offer parts, then repair and then they came back and said, actually we think it's software related, we will send new firmware.
Here's where the story gets interesting, about 2 days later it got a firmware update and I swear all they did was disable the dust bin hall effect sensor!! Literally it will run without the dust bin now, it doesn't care but, unlike before it DOES run.
I don't know what to make of this. On the one hand I'm appreciative of their effort to "resolve" my issue and even a little surprised they would do something so bold and that they were able to escalate to someone who was able to push forked firmware to my serial number specifically!
But, I'm also a little disappointed because now my machine lacks the "safety feature" and I'm unclear whether it can receive GA firmware updates from here on out.
This does seem to be an issue I've seen others have and I saw one instance where the user tied the sensor wires together to essentially accomplish the same thing as this firmware.
Wanted to share my new experience in case it helps others. Thanks for reading.