r/automower

After owning the Lymow One Plus for about 6 weeks now, ontop of the Eufy E18 I've owned since last April...I wanted to provide a detailed look at each mower, side-by-side.

Given I'm no longer a novice in this world and know what you should expect from a robotic mower, I cover all the must-haves, pros, cons, and which one is worth the investment ($1,500 vs $3,000).

I've gotten more savvy with screen recording, so you can see the app user interface while I demonstrate the mower cutting my backyard. Spent a great deal of time diving into all the features, which ones you should pay attention to...and best practices for ideal results with each mower.

Lastly, I've got some cool drone footage from my backyard demonstrating the cut patterns and quality for each mower, which may be the ultimate deciding factor for those of you on the fence.

Yes, I do believe you need a backup mower if you travel a bunch, since the Lymow One Plus is unreliable if it gets stuck or out of bounds somewhere...you won't be able to navigate home and will be screwed with an overgrown lawn by the time you get home...hence my reason for keeping the E18 for now.

I think i'll do a video filming the Lymow One Plus cutting some tall weeds/grass next time. Let me know what other content you guys want to see, and thanks for the support as always!

I just ordered a Goat A1600 LiDAR Pro and am waiting for its arrival, and I'm already overthinking about having a pet constantly running around messing with the mower's workflow. I know the A1600 claims its obstacle avoidance is great things like basketballs or toys are no problem. But dogs move unpredictably. So i want to know how mowers usually react to pets moving around the yard?

I'm in the market for robot mower and deciding betweern RTK and LiDAR.

My yard has a mix of open areas and sections with trees and partial sky obstruction. I’ve read that RTK depends on GNSS signal quality and sky visibility, while LiDAR relies more on local mapping.

For those who’ve used both, which system feels more consistent in real-world yards with obstacles and partial coverage? Is LiDAR actually more stable in practice, or is RTK reliable enough even in less ideal layouts?

So we got into automowrs with husky and have a 415 that is a champ. No issues. No problems. Going on a few years now. However the backyard is huge and full of steep hills. So I found the 430 on marketplace for a steal. A repair company going out of business.

The dang thing has never ran a season once. It can’t cut the full yard (at least 415 could over the course of days), then the board needed upgrades because it just decided to not sync to the app or bay, not it’s having charge issues.

At this point I’m in this mower for more on repairs and diagnostics that I paid for it originally.

I want to upgrade, but with new hip models coming out in other brands and price tags in the thousands I don’t want just get in bed with a new lemon.

So I’d love some advice and support. One I found I thought could work well was the lymow, or even the yarbo?

But anything that can handle about an acre of hills and slopes of about 38 degrees.

I'm still using an older robot mower from a few years back, and overall it still does a solid job. The main thing it struggles with is the edges though. Around flower beds, along the fence line, and where the driveway meets the lawn, the boundary lines still end up looking uneven after a few mowing cycles, so I usually have to walk around with a trimmer on the weekends to clean everything up and make the yard look a bit more finished.

Recently I notices some newer models with built-in trimmers and better edge recognition, and some of them look like they can get much closer to the edges without constantly bumping into things. It sounds pretty useful if it actually works reliably long term.

Has anyone here used one of these for a while? Any models with good edge trimming or boundary detection you'd recommend? Appreciate any real feedback.

Hi.

I made this post about a year ago. Since then, the market have a changed a bit and I have still not made the leap, and a quite a few new entries has made its way onto the scene. Especially roborocks linup looks tempting to me. What would you suggest in terms of mower to be able to cover most of this area? This is a farm in Norway, so keep in mind that cutting is only done from april (ish) to october.

Measurements in feet due to tool used. There is traffic on this road, albeit not much.

Recently cut a wire while spring planting. Fixed break along with several others, changed layout of wire slightly, changed where an island was connected to main boundary.

I'm pretty sure my wire is solid at this point and have a solid green light at the doc - no issues.

My 315X mower will leave the dock, run a bit then stop and I get a 'no loop signal'.

It seems to have stopped in the same area but there are no wires in the area is stops. I'll try a few more times and see if it stops in the same location.

Anyone troubleshoot this before?

Maybe I need to have it identify my loop/boundary since I've changed some things?

Hi,

I'm currently checking different mowers for bigger areas.

For me the most important part is reliability. Thats why I kicked Goko & Rokibot off the list.

Currently remaining:

• Sunseeker X9
• Terramow X
• Navimow Terranox

How reliable are these companies? The Terranox seems to be the only one with fleet management? Anybody used the fleet management before? I really hate that they seem to be just the normal model with another software limit (and orange casing color).

On paper they all look great. But how they perform in the real world?
What would you pick?

(Will not buy them on kickstarter anyway as I need a proper invoice and warranties.)

Currently we use FR4000 robots. They are not bad but the service is very mixed, spare parts take quite long and they still feel like in late beta (got a lot better in the last year but still not perfect). And they get stuck a lot or miss the charger.

Hello, help and advice much appreciated.

Husquavara 105 Robo mower has stopped returning to base. 2 years old.

It stops cutting when the battery is low, but just roams around until it dies somewhere.

I have put new guide wire and perimeter wire in, and when I swap the guide wire with external perimeter wire on the back of the base station - the mower stays in that half (and vice versa). - I.e. it picks up the guide wire as perimeter. Green light is on base station.

Guide wire runs 3m in straight line from the base. Perimeter wires are out the back of the base station - directly right and left, in a straight line.

Not sure what else to do, but it’s not old so really disappointing if broken already, after I purchased premium brand.

Looking at the Husqvarna 420 iQ and trying to understand how the mapped area limits actually work in the real world.

I know the mower is rated for around 1 acre of maintained mowing, but does the software actually stop you from mapping more than that total?

For example:
- Can you map multiple areas totaling more than 1 acre?
- Keep only part of it actively maintained?
- Then occasionally enable or manually mow the other sections?

Basically trying to understand whether the acreage rating is a true software cap or just a realistic maintenance recommendation.

Would love input from actual 420 iQ owners.

The industry clearly isn't there yet. Lymow appears the most versatile for now. How long do you think till versions/brands similar to the lymow come along. I think I'm going to sit on the sidelines for now. This appears like junk tech over the past 20 yrs where the next version or update keeps getting made leading to another pain point. I'd hate to get a lymow then they go belly up in 12 mths. It looks like there are already copy-cat lymows on Alibaba... For all I know, they may simply be the companies reject-units.