My autonomous lawn mower thread/blog

I've been watching the Landroid M700+ WR167E on amazon.de for a while. It's been hovering around €790-795 for a few weeks, but today it's down to €672.75 before shipping (via a third party to Ireland).

It sounds like the Amazon UK spring sale deals run until tomorrow Wednesday but I'm not sure about Amazon Germany.

I'm following all the Navimow talk with interest. Does anyone know what the story is with 4G? Are we going to be stuck paying e20/30 per month for a Vodafone data package once the free year runs out?

Think it's something like €29 for the year. The 2023 models come with both 4G and WiFi built in, so there may be no need to renew the 4G after it expires as long as the mowing area has WiFi signal. Best to double check that with the sellers though. One thing to note is that it might be safer to keep the 4G active for the anti-theft location feature.

I've been researching the navimow and unless they haven't updated their website, only the H500E uses wifi, the others are all using 4G connectivity only.

Thanks! I went with mailboxde in the end. Getting the Landroid WR153E for 1500m2. Seems to be similar to the 2000m2 model but with different battery ampage and longer boundary wire in box. (Area its needed for is only about 1200m2)

With the money I'm saving, going to invest in a Worx grass trimmer also to do the fiddly bits. Anyone have any feedback on their performance?

I have the strimmer. It's only a single string job so it's literally only good enough for grass. However the charger will work for the landroid battery too so that's handy.

I used shipgerman.com this time, after seeing a few positive mentions here on Boards, but it's my first time using a forward shipper from Germany.

It should almost certainly be the new stock being sold as everything sold out last year.

You can ask the seller to check the serial number on the boxes they have in stock. This should indicate the week. Also there's a month/year on the box, e.g. 12/22.

How long is the power cable on the navimow? Doing some prep work

Yeah based in cork the first 6 months broke my heart with my ambrogio. Between google this thread (some very helpful people her) and mower magic uk. I managed to iron out the problems that and buying parts direct from Doyle’s in Kilkenny. Time back I’d have got a high spec mulching walk behind. I’d have had 2 hrs to myself every week away from the family.

You can't place the base station in the garage but you could place it 2 metres away from it. Not sure what type of surface you intend to mount the base and antenna on, but you can definitely have them outside the lawn boundary. According to the manual:

"The charging station and the GNSS antenna can be installed inside or outside the work area. If the charging station is outside the work area, a channel towards the nearest boundary will be automatically set once the map is completed. The mower will return to the charging station using this channel. This channel cannot be edited or deleted."

If that works for you then the rest should be fine as you can draw channels to the other lawns. You may have to draw those channels from one lawn section to another rather than directly to the base though.

All going fine so far with the vision fence. I do need to do a small bit of adjustment to my map as I should now be able to go a little closer to the kerb since it can now see that it's near the edge. In one spot directly under a big tree where the signal isn't great I was a bit more cautious with going too close up till now.

I bought mine from Robocleaners and had no issues with them but might be better if you can buy locally in case you've any warranty issues to deal with.

Ah ok that's fair enough. Delivery was around a week from Robocleaners for me.

I see on the Navimow Facebook group today they've given a preview of some new features they're releasing shortly where you can create schedules for separate sections of lawn, set it to mow one specific section as a once off, and set different mowing heights for each section also.

I am just dealing the same issue myself. Can't use an adaptor as it won't fit inside the waterproof outdoor socket, so I'll just have to cut off the EU 2-pin plug and wire up a standard 3-pin plug.