Au revoir Landroid
This is a post to say thanks to all who post useful information, encouraging comments, hints, and workarounds in this sub. It's helped me work through numerous issues.
After a 5 year long experiment, I'm saying farewell to my Landroid WR155E. To be fair, I should have gone with an AWD model from the start, but didn't want to commit the budget at the time. I went in with eyes open, with an hilly, tree rooty, and otherwise difficult garden at our country house, and wanted to see whether a robot could take care of it. The answer was yes and no.
As long as I was around to babysit and save it from a tree root, lift error, out of boundary, damaged wire, dead batteries that required jump starts, or any number of other non recoverable errors, everything was fine and the grass looked great. Leaving on Sunday evenings I knew that I'd get an error notification during the week and that on my Friday arrival I'd find it in some random spot.
After a week with the Luba 3, I have no regrets so far. Much newer tech of course, so that's to be expected. But the kicker for my garden is the AWD, an absolute must in my case. It's done 8 full cuts (multiple recharges per full cut) without a single intervention from me, which was unheard-of with the WR155E. and the WAF is high with the stripes mode...
Ripping out the boundary wire with my son, I counted over 20 repairs on my half, probably about the same on his half. And it still it would run fine until the next incident. I will not miss searching for and repairing breaks/cuts.
My Landroid will begin its second life soon at a neighbor's house with a much simpler yard.