Hey I’m after some advice. I’m after a robotic mower for the lawn around out home. Around 1 acre of grass. Don’t want a wire so after a gps mower. I’ve been looking at the Lymow that on kickstarter at the moment but what other options do you guys think will be better and why you think they will be better. Yard is flat and I’m based in New Zealand if that makes any difference.

Mine LUBA 2 AWD , Honda race car sticker. I'm gonna name it Fernando.

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I see the Luba 2 is available on AliExpress for a good discount. Anyone order one from there yet?

And I recently was offered the "opportunity" to express interest in Toro's long-delayed robot mower. At $3499 for the smaller version it's a hard pass.

With winter around the corner, I thought it'd be a good idea to give my GOAT G1 a break and do some maintenance.I found an official video on Youtube with some useful tips, Here's what I learned, plus some of my own tips for anyone who's thinking about giving theirs a once-over.

Ps: Check out the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iq1RiprBWw

- Keep Those Parts FreshFirst things first, maintaining the G1 isn't as big a pain as I thought. Like swapping out the blade – just every couple of months, which is the sweet spot between not being a hassle and keeping things humming along smoothly.

- Stay Charged UpI'm totally loving the app's battery alert. It gives me a heads-up before the juice runs dry, so no awkward "Oh crap, it's dead!" moments. One time, I even put the battery in backwards, and the app was quick to call me out on it. For someone who often overlooks the small stuff, this feature is a total game-changer!

- A Quickie CleanI always pop on some gloves just for good measure, but beyond that, a quick swipe with a brush or towel and it's good as new. Its sleek design, with no fancy guts to worry about? I'm all about that simplicity!

- Winter Storage Tip: Keep Things in PlaceLast winter, I learned the hard way that when you unpack it, keeping the base and beacon in their original spots is key. Otherwise, you might run into some funky positioning or map loading issues. While the app can recalibrate in a jiffy, staying put saves a heap of time. Trust me, I learned the hard way!

All in all, the Goat G1 is a breeze to keep in shape – not nearly as much of a hassle as I thought. A little TLC goes a long way, and if you're planning to get some winter use out of it, consider these tips!

Dealer from MN here. Posting my personal CEORA here at dealer cost because I have held onto it for 2 years now for demos. 344 hours. No issues, I just dont want to have to pay for it before winter comes. I can personally deliver with my enclosed trailer if you are in the US. We can chat shipping as well I have all original packaging. 1000pk of blades included, can include ref station if desired.

Shoot me a PM to discuss options and pricing

Luke E.

Hi there Any suggersions for a robotic mower for small lawn (<100m2), that has intelligent Path planning (the chaos navigation triggers my inner monk.....) and local only app connectivitiy (for HA)?

Edit: should be as cheep as possible but reliable.:D blow 400€ would be grat

Thanks!

Hi everyone! I've seen several posts about the lack of real info/noise around the Orion X7 line, and as I recently received mine I thought I'd leave a little review for everyone, specifically for the Orion X7 Plus. This is going to get a bit lengthy, so if you want to skip the bulk of this, I’ve got a tl;dr at the end. Also, feel free to ask me any questions and I’ll do my best to answer them!

Before jumping in, 2 important disclaimers. First, I am NOT sponsored/affiliated/loyal/etc to/with Sunseeke/Orion. I paid full price for this, I'm not a content creator, and I don't intend to have any benefit from this whatsoever.

Second, I AM A ROBOT LAWNMOWER NOOB. We're a big smart home household (lights, locks, shades, computers, a Dreame X30 I couldn't more highly recommend, and more), but this is my first robot lawnmower. I'm not an expert, and I don't have prior experience, so any ease or difficulty is from the perspective of an active smart home user who considers himself relatively tech-savvy, but has no robot lawnmower experience whatsoever.

A bit of context about my setup, I have about an acre of lawn to mow, and it is shaped fairly funky. I'll attach a picture of the map in the comments for your reference. There are several slopes, but none too steep. That said, there are multiple areas where the edge of my lawn drops off a precipitous cliff that the mower certainly would not handle, and would likely fall off. I have a 2 story home with a 5' tall attic (this is important for later) and I have a lawn that is pretty open, but all edges are lines with very tall trees (we're in the middle of the woods). I also have 12 tripod sprinklers currently standing in the lawn because we are trying to establish grass. The house is surrounded by a couple feet of gravel on all sides.

Okay, far too much context there, but I want you to have the details. Let's jump in.

The Orion X7 Plus has been AMAZING!!! I took my sweet time doing the setup. After unboxing and installing a few pieces (like the cellular anti-theft device it came with), I placed the charging station just under my deck at the back of the house. This put it on the gravel around my house, but with the front edge on the lawn itself. The holding stakes went through the gravel just fine, and the station sat an inch off the ground but sat flush once I put the stakes in. The mower has had no trouble getting onto its station.

I experimented with a few locations for the RTK station (the pole with the satellite dish on it, dish is about 6" in diameter). I had read online that placement for this guy could be frustrating. Some people said they put it inside their attic and it worked well. I was hoping to do that, but my attic is more of a crawl space, we don't have easy access to it, and there is blown insulation everywhere, so it wasn't worth the hassle. Instead, I set it up in the gravel surrounding the deck. It's about 30 feet to the left of the charging station and is just starting to get to the corner of the house.

The important information here is that the charging station and the RTK antenna aren’t very far apart and are both located in the backyard. This was Sunseeker’s least optimal arrangement of all the options they suggested. And it still works flawlessly! We haven’t had any issues with satellite connectivity, and the robot has never lost its location. We did try moving the RTK station to the front yard (because Sunseeker seemed to recommend it), but then the base station had trouble connecting to the RTK station. We moved it back to the backyard and everything was flawless.

The X7 Plus does a great job mowing. It hasn’t torn up our lawn, even on wet days, and we’ve got plenty of slopes where I thought this would be an issue. No issues so far! The mow lines look great, and you can set a custom direction if you want (but then the entire lawn is that direction — it’s not like you can draw mow patterns on your lawn or anything).

Set at normal settings, I have the X7 Plus run from 7:30pm-3:30am. It takes about 2 nights of this to mow the entire acre of lawn. The night mowing seems to work great, and we haven’t had any issues with the mower getting stuck. We did have to create a small “no-go zone” at the front end of our lawn, because the terrain here is extremely uneven. New construction, huge tire tracks from heavy machinery, so there’s are 5” deep ruts in the dirt that the mower got caught on at one point. All the other areas of the lawn have typical undulation, roots, and rocks, and the mower handles all of it like a champ.

We mow at night because we are running sprinklers throughout the day and don’t want to mow wet grass. The mower is silent enough we can’t hear it in the house even if we try. Mowing day or night shouldn’t pose any issue for you or your neighbors, and I’ve got the blade speed on high!

One word of warning: the app is not great. If you’re familiar with smart devices, you’ll know there are some apps that are extremely well-designed, and some that… aren’t. The “aren’t” category is where this app definitely falls. It’s certainly usable, it doesn’t have any major bugs or annoyances I could find, but it’s just not intuitive or robust. I haven’t found that to be a bother, but as someone who daily uses the Dreame app for my vacuum/mop and the Tesla app for my car, I was hoping the mower app would have a bit more functionality.

A couple of quick notes about mapping. There is an AI mapping feature that I did not use, but I wish I had. Mapping the lawn took me about 45 minutes of slowly walking behind the mower while using the joystick in the app to drive the mower. It was fun for a few minutes and then became tedious. I also had to drive him to each obstacle (all the sprinklers) and circle him around it to create the obstacle in the map. Now, to be clear, the map is perfect and the mower follows it perfectly, which is great, but it took a lot of setup. Candidly, I’m not sure if the AI mapping would have done as good of a job as doing it manually, but it would’ve been nice to try it to save the time.

One other data point: my grass area being mowed is about 31,400 square feet, and the app says it takes the mower 741 minutes to mow this (on normal settings, but you can choose faster or slower drive speeds and skinnier or wider spacing of paths). This comes out to roughly 42 square feet per minute, so in my experience you’re looking at around 17 hours to mow an acre. That feels like a lot to me, but running it at night for several hours takes care of it. My 3/4 acre lawn is fully mowed in 2 nights.

tl;dr — I am absolutely loving my Orion X7 Plus! I bought it on Amazon so I could return it, but I am definitely keeping it. It mows great, it’s very quiet (can’t hear it if I’m inside the house), and runs great at night. I’ve had zero issues with satellite or connectivity, despite putting the base under the deck and the RTK station on the same side of the house, and despite very tall trees surrounding the lawn (but not in the actual lawn area). The robot hasn’t gotten stuck or lost, and it goes right up to the edge that I mapped. The app isn’t inhibiting, but it certainly isn’t a positive either. It’s really the only part of the entire process I wasn’t thoroughly impressed with. The app gets the job done, but leaves something to be desired. Besides the app, everything about the Orion X7 Plus has been fantastic! It mows my 3/4 acre lawn in about 17 hours on normal settings. I run it at night and it does my whole lawn in about 2 nights.

Hi there! Anyone has experience with robotic lawnmowers where it has to mow close to the pool? My lawn connects with pool and would want to find it sinking lol dont want to install any fences or etc as kids are always running and of course for the aesthetic view. So most probably GPS mowers would not work as they tend to loose signals and etc, any suggestion on one with boundary wires that would move systematic and not random?

Hi, every robot mower user, How long does your robot mower take to conquer your entire yard? Are you happy with its efficiency? Share with me, please~

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Hi, every robot mower user, How long does your robot mower take to conquer your entire yard? Are you happy with its efficiency? Share with me, please~

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Hi folks.

I am seeking an robotic lawn mower and have seen some serious value in the RoboUp T1200Pro... Does anyone in here, own this machine, and can you give some info regarding how it has performed for you?

Thanks in advance 👍🏼

Im from Northern Europe where robotic mowers are found in most household yards. However I question why Ive never encountered a robotic mower living in Florida. If anyone could recommend a brand/model unit for a Florida mix grass of St Augustine and Bahia. Fenced in yard size in 0,5 acres

All of these fenced in areas have to be push mowed 3x a week to keep them looking up to scratch, would a robot lawn mower be usable here? If so, any recommendations?

I am new to robotic lawnmowers. I am considering the YUKA. I have a lot of tall trees in the yard. There is no where on ground level that gets a 360 of the sky. About the only place that might get that is on top of the roof. Does the cord between the antenna and the docking station long enough to do that? What is the ramifcations if I don't have the full 360 view, maybe only 270 or so? I am thinking it will be more difficult to get the YUKA to connect, but not sure. Is there a resource in the US that can evaluate the yard and provide an opinion as to whether a RTK will work?

I have a fairly standard yard. Almost completely flat, with a fence dividing the front yard from the back. My question is, do I have to get 2 mowers, 1 to cover the front and 1 for the back, or is there a way to allow the mower to pass the fence, like cut a small path through the fence? And help/advice?

Are robot lawnmowers even worth it?

The eeve Willow Pro gets stuck and wanting to replace wheels, like the spiked ones from seen with file searches of “spiked husqvarna robotic mower wheels” - a lot cheaper than less evolved wheels offered from eeve.com. Has anyone done this?

Also, there’s a narrow area - 10’ between a hedge and my house where the charging station is. It seemed to get confused with narrow spaces. In the web app, there’s a feature for narrow and wondering if anyone used?

Any Willow owners here?

Willow doesn’t use wires and uses video driven, gps AI to recognize- nice idea and eeve gives augmented reality that shows how it is identifying in near real time.

Is there a particular sensor in Husqvarna mowers that will throw this alert? I have two 310 models and one of them has started having this alert almost daily. A few times it has been because of an obstacle, but usually I find it parked in the middle of the lawn stopped on this error. I’m wondering if something needs to be replaced. The lawn isn’t very bumpy, it’s less bumpy than last year and this issue only happened a few times last mowing season.

Any under $1,500?

(Updated the post from $1,000).

Im considering getting one. I have a fenced area that's pretty overgrown. Filled with leaves,big weeds & poison ivy (why I don't want to mow it). Curious if there is a robot mower that can handle that kind of stuff. If so, is that one available or in development stage?

Hi, I bought the Flymo easilife Go 500 and have used all the wire that came with the spool for my primary area and guide wire. I have another area Id like to make into an unconnected manual secondary area and have bought an extra 50m of wire which I think should do the job... The manual agrees this is possible, but some pages (e.g. the below link) talk about the need to "Observe the maximum length of the perimeter wire".

Does anyone know the maximum length of the extension for this model? Thanks!

https://www.robomow.com/blog/detail/is-it-possible-to-extend-the-perimeter-wire-or-change-it-later

Last time I cleaned my lawnmower (Gardena Sileno Minimo 500) I reattached the washer on the wrong side of the wheels (stupid). I then proceeded to over tighten the nuts (stupid). Now I can’t loosen the nuts (predictable). I end up rotating the shaft of the motor and it doesn’t appear to be anywhere to hold the shaft in place while rotating the nut. The hollow end of the shaft in the picture is rounded, so doesn’t work using an allan key or similar to keep it in place.

Any tips would be appreciated.

I'm having trouble with my Robomow RS615u. It mows for 5-10 seconds, then the mowing motors stop. It drives a bit and then starts mowing again. This pattern keeps repeating.

It seems like it thinks the motors are overloaded, but the mowing height is set to maximum, and the knives don't look damaged. Interestingly, if I remove the knives, it drives around pretending to mow without any issues.

I tested the mowing motors in the service menu, which reported different failure codes. That, combined with the above error, made me change both mowing motors which fixed the test issues, but the mowing pattern persists.

Any ideas on what might be causing this?