u/santaklon

I have an m500 tending to our lawn at a holiday house abroad. It is the simplest lawn on earth: Completely flat, driveable stone border, no obstacles, one 90 degree corner, all other corners are about 120 degrees. It even has the spiky wheel attachmens for better traction (installed by the previous owner). All in all an easy enough one would think?

However the landroid keeps getting stuck in the one 90-degree corner there is and keeps driving over the wire. We have to call the gardener at least once a week to go and carry it back to base and start it up again.

All of that could easily be avoided if the Droid would just back up 1 meter and make a turn when encountering a problem.

Like if you sense that you drove out of boundary - well guess what? It means you can back up to get back into the boundary wire! How hard could that possibly be?

If you find a corner you cant figure out - well guess what? Just back out of it and go mow somewhere else instead of digging up the lawn!

Are these Devices really just meant for people who basically are home 24/7 to babysit their idiotic robot? Is there anything one can do to make these devices actually autonomous for months at a time? I have fine-tuned the boundary wire for weeks, but the Droid seems to find new ways to get himself stuck ever again, it is mind-boggling!

I have been pretty heavily invested into the Garmin ecosystem in the last couple of years: Garmin InReach, Fenix 6, Index Scale, HRM-pro strap. Didn't use them for cycling but everything from Ski touring, Mountaineering, offroading, swimming, etc. While the hardware is top-notch i could just never get over how absolutely cluttered, incoherent and problem-ridden their software and online-services were. Rout planning an navigation is just unusable in my opinion. I actively started disliking Garmin after they fu*cked everybody over with the new InReach pricing model (instantly sold the InReach).

Now I bought a Road bike and since i already had the Fenix and HRM strap, I slapped some Garmin Speed & Cadence sensors on it and bought an adapter to use the Fenix as a head unit.

After a few outings with the bike I also installed a Quadlock Phone mount, so I could use "real" navigation apps, control my music and see if i get an important call. I have a 10k powerbank in my top tube bag, lasts about 6 hours alltogether - longer than me and longer than the by now pretty bad, non-replaceable battery in my Fenix 6.

Now all I wish is that i could just ditch the stupid Fenix watch and do it all from my phone. For all other sports I do, I don't care about the metrics anymore, and for navigation I us the phone anyway. So It's really just about cycling now.

I can connect the sensors directly to the phone - but what app to use? Gramin connect won't allow recoding directly to de phone (obviously they want you to buy a device from them).

Apart from that, I'm seeing Komoot, Ride with GPS, Strava being used a lot. But I'm confused as to what these apps actually can do in-app vs. just importing to a garmin device.

Has anyone found a way to navigate, see live metrics and record on the phone alone and in the end have a conclusive performance report? (Does not need to be as detailed as garmin also i don't care about all the social features of strava / komoot)

Any input would be most welcome!