Scuba S1 climbing the wall but skipping the floor seam

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Anyone else fight this. Mine does great on the walls and steps but there's a seam where two panels meet on the floor of my fiberglass and it just glides right over it every single pass instead of scrubbing along it. Same spot every time, not random. Firmware's whatever the current app push is, updated it last week and no change. Tried rotating the whole unit 90 degrees when I drop it in, no difference. It's not a huge deal since I brush that seam maybe once a week anyway but it bugs me that the nav pattern has such a consistent blind spot. Dolphin E10 I also run doesn't have this problem but it's on a cord and takes forever to cover the same ground. Curious if this is a known nav quirk with the cordless bots or if my seam is just deep enough to throw the mapping off.

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Cant speak to the S1 since mine is the Nautilus, but same deal on my fiberglass, it has one spot by the deep end steps it always skips and I just brush it myself, not worth stressing over honestly.
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Dana's right not to stress it, but I'd add, that's probably just the nav pattern doing its systematic rows and missing a groove that's a little recessed, same reason my Seagull won't chase down where the wall foam meets the floor track on my above ground, it's a seam not a stain so the sensors don't flag it as dirty. Mine's been fine for four seasons otherwise, I just hit that one spot with the brush on Sundays and call it even.