Hide Roomba Dock . I keep mine underneath our bed. Using roomba for multiple floors. Roomba attempting to dock after cleaning. therewasanattempt from www.reddit.com Put your robot on the home base or directly contact the charger to the robotic cleaner. As for the older roombas, the dock emits two infrared beams of light in a v shape. When something is wrong with the irobot roomba, the first thing you should do is to give it a hard reset.