@Wayne-TP 

Hi folks

I just found that my Tapo RV30 was unable to charge because...

....

Because one of the 3 arms of the lateral brush covered entirely one charging plate!

My compliments to the genius that put one charging plate in a position that can be covered by the brush

That said, my RV30 is charged again now, but it refuses to work, and both the soft and the hard reset workflow fail

The more expensive paperweight ever bought YUK

  @Wayne-TP 

the robot is apparently charged, but the pairing is impossible, both using the wi-fi or bluetooth

the soft and the hard reset don't work

when I click on the 2 buttons to try the reset, the only thing that may happen, sometimes and not always, is that it rotates 360°, and then it goes on the base

  @Wayne-TP 

Do you mean you receive the error "Pairing Failed" during the configuration in the Tapo app? 

No, I mean that I cannot contact the robot with my app because clicking the 2 buttons to activate the pairing does nothing

So I have a charged robot that doesn't listen the app

About the router, it is an Archer MR505 with a SIM, and the router is in the same room, a few meters away from the robot

This router has the 2.4GHz WiFi option active only; so no 5GHz activated

BTW, I have a Tapo C100 cam as well, and pairing it was a matter of seconds

  @Wayne-TP 

None of the buttons flash white after you long-press these two buttons?

Not exactly

The Combination button on the right (4 dots) flashes for a while; then nothing happens apart a vocal message; unfortunately, I set the language as German as a joke because my wife studied German, but she is still unable to understand the speech, so both me and my wife are unable to understand the message completely
We only got that the robot speaks about "5 minutes etc."

And, because the 2 Combination buttons never flash, the app is unable to see the robot

I tried just now:

the Home button flashes green

when I hit the Combination buttons, after about 5 seconds the robot says Good - Ready (in German clearly), then the Home button becomes white...

Strange behavior to me

  @Wayne-TP 

t seems your device is in child lock mode. Long-press the child lock button (the 4 dots) for 5s to exit child lock mode. 

It worked, thanks a lot!

I set the language to English, and I just completed the first test in my rumpus and the robot delivered

Tomorrow I'll do a more complex test I never did before, that is cleaning a room with an aperture to the rumpus stairs

I'll let you know how it will work

In the meanwhile, I noticed a thing: the robot stops itself sometimes without any apparent reason

a little "push" and it goes on: any suggestion about the reason?