Roomba error codes

A Roomba tells you what is wrong the same way on every Wi-Fi model. The light ring around the CLEAN button (around the bin lid on the s9) turns solid red and the robot narrates a message. Most messages carry a number, "Error 14" or "Charging Error 8", and that number is what you search for. Press CLEAN to hear the message again, or press the bumper while the robot is on; the iRobot HOME app shows the same text.

iRobot publishes one error chart per series. The numbers mean the same thing across the 600, e, i, j and s families with a few series-specific extras, which is why every page here lists the affected series at the top. Charging errors use their own numbering (1, 3, 5, 8) and have their own pages. Faults with no number at all, a robot that will not dock, will not charge or keeps stopping, live in the symptom section.

One thing to know before you troubleshoot: iRobot went through Chapter 11 in December 2025 and was taken over by Picea in January 2026. The cloud and the app kept running, so most models sit at "limited" rather than orphaned in our support status table, and the release-notes pages iRobot left behind still anchor our firmware timelines.