r/worxlandroid

Hey, been setting up the mower for my parents. I got things mostly done, but it seems to completely ignore the spot highlighted in the picture, even though it should be part of zone 2 (the left skinny part of the map). There are no obstacles there.

It used to be just one large zone for the whole property, but I've since split it up into 2 zones, and it seems that split has messed something up.

So if anyone has any ideas, please let me know! That zone is using the "natural" cut pattern, while the larger zone is using paralell cutting (if that matters).

Perhaps I should start over completely and map the zones separate to begin with

4wd will make wonderful stripes.

Height 4.5cm, mowing schedule every day, constant accurate stripe coverage. Crass in growing season (up to 2cm a day).

If you have a blank lawn, its the best pattern maker.

Today I saw that my Worx had made these circle patterns in my lawn for some reason. Must have been spinning in a circle for some time for this to happen. I use natural mowing without any pattern.

I am trying to figure out what the red indicator with the line through in means in the app. Does anyone have an idea?

The problem is that a 4Ah battery mows basically ame as a 8Ah smart original battery.

There was a recommendation that if you change your 8Ah battery in Worx dedicated charger, then it mows longer. TESTED AND THIS IS TRUE !

So the 4wd base doesn't charge correctly. This causes the situation that a 8 Ah battery mows basically same as a 4Ah battery.

And remember, the 4wd does return back to dock when the 8Ah is 30-40% full, but the app tells you it has 10% power.

All this is causing the problem where users with 4Ah battery are getting 1:30 mowing times and users with 8Ah are getting 1:50 mowing time.

There is a claim that its supressed by software.

The test result where you let 4wd base charge the 8Ah battery to full (app says 100% and stops charging), you take then the battery out of mower, place it to Worx dedicated charger and you get extra 40 minutes of charge time in it and return the 8Ah battaer (freshly charged in Worx charger up to solid green light) and the mower will mow significantly longer. THIS IS TRUE!

At the end I got record mowing time in all those months it was 2:39 minutes. Yes 2 hours, 39 minutes, 59 second! (and it did return with two lights green on battery, 30-40%, but the 4wd app stated 10%). 💩

Meantime after a hour of mowing app showed 100% battery(unreal), it means it doesn't read its own original smart batterys correctly, thats a fact to !

So Worx is a piece of 💩 and is supressing mowing times of their own original smart battery's!

TL;DR: Zone 1 auto-maps fine. The moment I try to add a 2nd zone via a connecting path over my pavement, mapping "finishes," the mower locks with -E09, and the ONLY way out is the USB unlock file + deleting the entire map. ~10 times now. How is anyone adding zones without a complete meltdown?? 😅

Setup:

- Landroid Vision Cloud 4WD (WR340E)

- Firmware 2.5.4+1 / 3.46.0+22

- Wi-Fi and RTK both solid, so it's NOT the offline "mower locked" flavour of E9

What happens:

Zone 1 = perfect. To add zone 2 I lay a connecting path across a paved bit, drive the mower over, map the new zone. Looks like it's mapping fine, gets to the end… then sticks and throws -E09. After that it's fully locked. USB unlock brings it back, but then literally ANY action (manual move, start mowing, anything) instantly re-triggers E09 and locks it again. So the only way forward is nuke the map and start over.

I dug into the mower logs and the failure is weirdly specific:

- The connector path keeps getting flagged: "P2PTracking check path is narrow channel!!!"

- While crossing it, SLAM throws repeated "pose_jump_detect" alarms (localisation jumping around)

- There's a ~28s depth-camera dropout in the same window

- And it ends with SLAM: "Save base position failed" — so the new map never actually saves

Working theory: the paved connector is too narrow (or too low-texture for the vision SLAM), the mower loses localisation crossing it, the map save fails, and it faults to E09. Feels like a software robustness issue, not hardware.

Questions for the hive mind:

1. Anyone with a Vision (esp. the 4WD) actually running multiple zones connected over pavement? What does your connector look like — how wide, any tricks?

2. Did widening the path / adding visual features / changing the lighting fix the pose jumps for you?

3. Is there ANY way to recover from E09 without deleting the whole map?

4. Anyone know the minimum path width the Vision needs before it calls it a "narrow channel"?

The problem is ... that under the bushes or hedges or tree branches where the mower can go under with ease, it doesn't. Software reads objects on his visual top wrong and mower doesn't mow under branches.

It doesn't simply Worx!

The problem is a fact that with original 8ah battery upgrade you have unreasonable low mowing times 1:30-1:50). 4ah last me 1:30-1:40.

It comes from that piece of 💩 software, it doesn't read original battery data correctly .

Battery has 40+% power, but the piece of worx reads it as 10%.

Going home takes up to two minutes maximum.

This is my third year with the same WR147 Landroid (M) after 3 years with a WR140.

A lot of people on here have complaints about their mower, but mine have been really solid - especially the WR147 with two front wheels. When I upgraded, I installed the Worx ToughTerrain wheels that added the right amount of weight to the unit which really reduced the amount of traction issues I experienced previously. I also ran new boundary wire (solid copper 18-gauge) that has eliminated wire missing errors for the past 3 years.

This year I made some minor modifications to our flower beds by adding metal edging which keeps the mower inbound.

I am keeping a close eye on the new AWD model, but so far I am very happy with my 3 year old unit. I have almost 400km on my WR147.

A week passed, I was requested to take of the heigh protective flowerbed borders that surounded my rose's and manually create no go zones around each flowerbed separately. I did that.

This piece of 💩, leaves at least 40-50 cm uncut. The no go zone is brutally smaller, and there is plenty of room to cut around it closer, but it doesn't!

For me it means 2 times in the week trimming manually for an hour on my yard. Never had that issue with my old cable worx with the censor on top of it....never.

This piece of 💩 is worse then old models with the sensor on them! And that's a fact!!!

It may cut an empty rectangular lawn, but it's not for those who have normal private yards with trees, flowerbeds or bushes and hedges!