My autonomous lawn mower thread/blog

Welcome to the club! Glad to hear it's been mostly positive for you so far.

The bug with it losing the memory of its mowing progress was only recently introduced with one of the updates but it's sorted again for me after another update. I also started seeing issues with it going outside the boundary, which never happened before either, but I think that's working better after the update too.

Definitely agree it would have made sense to make the antenna cable a bit longer to have that bit more flexibility over its placement, but at least you can get an extension if needed, albeit at a cost.

That's very true about the initial mapping stage. If you're any bit iffy about the antenna location, i.e. if it doesn't have a decent wide view of the sky, then either find a more suitable spot or temporarily map out a smaller test area to see how it gets on. Would be very frustrating to have to do the whole map again if the antenna had to be moved.

Happy mowing!

Navimow Mower can be outside the boundary.

however at moment, pending a possible change, the mower will construct a channel to the nearest boundary entry point, and unlike other channels between lawns you can't edit this one, so it may pick an unsuitable route, so careful thought required prior to placement and mapping

Depends on the mower. But most no. You can't have it recessed. The instruction book you got with it will tell you exactly the gap required either side of the charging station

Hi everyone,

Only joined the Club very recently and while for the most part my Husqvarna 305 works okay , I do have recurring problems, not unlike lots of others.

I actually came across my very problem on this forum - it was dated back a few years - and the same issue I now have. Dissapointingly there was no solution/answer that I'm aware of - so hopefully this time there will be. Here i'm going to paste the problem and would welcome opinions on how to sort. (Its not the going to the Zone, it's the coming back across the driveway is the problem - in my case both Lawns are equal - so I have them down as 50%.

Query for Automower owners with two areas separated by a driveway.

The lawn after the driveway represents 20% of the area. I program this as Area 1 and entered the appropriate distance in meters to the end of that area.

What I find is that the mower finds and cuts the area no problem. It returns to the base station no problem for charging at the end of day. However if there is any charge remaining it proceeds to try to cut the invisible grass on the driveway for 5mins then makes it way back to the first area.

Have I programmed it wrong - how do you make it discount/ignore the driveway? I see plenty of videos on YouTube with narrow passages with with no problems.

Thanks only spotted that this morning :-).

Replacement PCB for charging station arrived today. Swapped out and reset the loop connection on the mower to the new pcb signal. Back in business. Also added duct tape to holes inside the charger and put sandpaper on the floor inside the pcb housing hopefully keeps any stray slugs out.

Cheers. I found a trouble shooting thing online, moving the guide line into the L and R slots. That gave me a green light, so at least it has narrowed down my fault finding by 50%.

Where did you get the battery & how much ?

I suspect I'll need one this year.

As an FYI, I bought a landroid with 2 pin plug. I sent them an email and they sent me a new 3 pin lead free of charge. Haven't used it yet as I am waiting for the install of a few more outdoor sockets and for the last year used an extension lead from garage plus an EU to UK adapter, no issues.

Do you mind me asking who you emailed or what the email address was??

Mine just arrived yesterday with a European plug.

Thanks

Why do people feel the need to do that? Is it that you dont like the look of it?

Its designed to be out in the weather so it doesn't need to be covered, but if you have time on your hands I suppose crack on! 🙂

My base gets covered in leaves so needed a roof.

As I said, they covered it.

Do you want me to remove it or something ? 😂

I am getting a garage/cover.

We live in Ireland. The rain comes sideways. I can't think of a single thing made of plastic and moving parts that survives being battered by wind and rain, and then faded/blasted with sun, often all in the same day. At 3-4000 for the big mowers, 100 euro to give it some shelter can't be a bad idea.

I had the same issue on the trampoline. I ended up buying the legs. Was much easier than I expected. Now the robot mows over the legs and under the trampoline fairly easily.

Still gets occasionally stuck on the pegs/ropes I have to anchor it but will sort them with off limits/creating islands.

One thing I wanted to ask of others with landroids - have yours become more stupid & prone to get stuck/drive out of the mowing area?

Last year mine was ok but it keeps getting stuck outside the perimeter wire, even in the mode innocuous of places