r/worxlandroid

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.

UPDATE: I bought the WR344. It arrives in two days. It is supposed to rain all week but will post my experience when the weather cooperates.

The WR341 is enough coverage for my yard (.17 acre). But the WR344 has free 4G for extended range access which I really like.

Is 4G over-rated? Get it or skip it?

Enjoying the community and am relatively new to Landroid and a Vision Cloud WR344.

Just wondering if anyone has seen this problem.

Mower would go to a status of "Enhancing Visual Features" and then turn off and error with no code after some time just stating "Action Required at Mower". During Enhancing Visual Features, mower would just wander seemingly randomly.

After a couple of unsuccessful attempts to pull battery and reboot, I took mower for cleaning and checks. Had the Cut to Edge cutting disc bound up and never got errors unrelated to E03. Just the odd wandering around Enhancing Visual Features for 20 minutes or so before powering itself down.

Not sure if freeing up the small cutting disc had anything to do with the other errors, but it seems suspect. Mower is back out and cutting now and has completed one battery cycle, so maybe that was it.

Hello,

I just bought a Vision Cloud 4WD and I think it’s amazing, but I can’t get it to mow another area. It follows the path just fine, but once it reaches the area, it heads back to its base. I’ve redrawn the path twice and the area twice, but the problem remains the same. Any ideas? Thanks

Should I do it? I don't have many issues. It likes to chew the grass in the turns. Doesn't bounce off edge obstacles well.

Does anybody know if the Worx Beta Tester Program for the Vision Cloud Mowers is still running? I was able to sign up via the official homepage but have not received any notification that my application was received.

Will the Charging Station for WR140, WR141, WR143 work fine with a WR155 Landroid? I called today Worx today and they are sending me a replacement base station & charging unit.

I noticed the model # in the order confirmation was for a different unit.

Thank you!

I recently got my hands on an M700 / WR142E and set about setting up a temporary zone while I finish creating the actual area that I got it for.

I pegged out a 120m^2 area, made sure the run-in to the charging station was straight and level enough to make the average NASA engineer nod with quiet approval, and painstakingly teased the grass out from under the perimeter wire while the mower sat and charged.

And I set it going.

Like all new automower owners, I followed it around like a lovesick puppy for half an hour, eventually tired of it's lack of pace, and decided to tell it to find the charger.

It followed the line like a tipsy bloodhound, and looked on happily as it followed the run-in to the dock with superb accuracy... and then it drove AROUND the dock - skirting around it like a politician dancing around a difficult question, and carrying on along the wire in its eternal search for home.

It took me a while to realise the mistake. It's a temporary zone. I didn't want to cut the wire, and I'd left the spool of wire *still in the circuit* and sat neatly against the back of the dock. Obviously I'd made a neatly coiled antenna that broadcast a signal that overpowered the single wire's signal.

I turned the spool around to confirm my theory, and it had the opposite effect: causing the mower to attack the base like horny tortoise.

Lesson learned. 😄

I'm now wondering if a neatly made coil above the ground, and around the base of a tree or plant could act as a no-go-zone by repelling the mower, but that's probably more effort than its worth.