My autonomous lawn mower thread/blog

Replaced by main dealer, even rang husquavarna Ireland. They weren’t much help. Advised that it wasn’t technical fault but needs air so it’s possible for something to get in.

This might be funny, but I've changed my board twice in 6 years. I think it might be the same charge station as yours. First was 70 euro second was I think 85. Board is breeze to replace BTW.

I've now sat the unit on bed of stones to prevent moisture and slugs and I did tape up the large holes underneath.

My units in a little mower house I built so no direct sun anymore for heat.

I wouldn't bring it to a dealer. That's daylight robbery for pcb and 5 minute job

Has anyone had issues with worx landroid in last few weeks?

Mine in last 6wks is out of action every second day. Outside boundary wire when clearly inside, trapped, wire missing. Stopped in middle of lawn and went off line, Stopped in charging station twice and shut down. Absolutely terrible machine. I got it this year and it worked fine for first 2mths then problems started, was emailing worx and they downgraded firmware on it and it was fine for about 2wks again and then non stop problems. Firmware is still as what they downgraded it to

I'm not quite at the level of full agreement here but I've definitely become more frustrated with my landroid.

I bought mine at the start of summer last year and issues then were certainly less frequent than now but I also put the down to teething problems.

This year has been frustrating. The firmware updates have made it incompetent all too often (mine has driven several metres in my drive, beyond the boundary wire; at other times it's stopped entirely at what seems like inside or maybe just on the wire with no evidence of trying to correct itself).

I've not been able to keep it out long enough and successfully enough to trim the lawn beyond the 2nd highest height.

And more recently it's gotten itself stuck and completely discharged the battery. This has taken the bones of a day to recharge and now it won't recharge at all.

Worx have apparently got a Cork based service provider. While I'm hoping they can fix it, I'm not optimistic - they haven't even succeeded in collecting it in 2 weeks.

So I'm ok for now, it was a lot more affordable than a Husqvarna but frustrating nonetheless.

I don't have a Stihl but my Husky showed similar symptoms after 4 seasons, 4-5 years seems to be the expected lifetime of these batteries.

Husky batteries are pretty easy to change, not sure about Stihl.

Has anyone changed a lift sensor circuit board on their Husq/Gardena mower? Just wondering if this is a straight swap, parts wise, or does it need to be reprogrammed?

This is a straight swap.

I've just had the same recently, battery fully dead, swapped it for a smaller battery from Worx drill and it did the same thing, I think it's the latest firmware leaving too little in the battery to get home or not switching off properly when stuck.

Would agree the first two years were a dream compared to this summer, I put a lot of it down to the wet weather but they've messed up the firmware too much somewhere.

Fwiw the battery gave a red light on the internal charger too but if you leave it on for a while then switch off it should charge the next time you switch it on, I think it just needs a tiny amount of charge to get it going. That or the recovery charge method (put landroid in base status and turn it on, if not too dead it will start a trickle charge process)

If you contact Worx, they can guild on how to revert to old firmware. Ive found the support to be good. I had a few problems on an earlier version but the new one dated 31/7/2023 seems to have fixed the bugs.

In the app there is also an option to turn off auto updates.

Im talking about the firmware on the mower.

Only because I'd mine off for 2 weeks :)

Kids got a new football goal and she would make a mess of it.

Had to ramp it right to the top !

Has anyone come across an issue with not being able to pair a phone with a husqvarna automower?

My mother in law has a Husqvarna 315X and is having issues with pairing her phone with it. She broke her phone and had to get a new phone. The mower now seems to be in an endless loop of searching for a signal and then timing out. The phone doesnt seem to be able to pick up the automower either. My wife and I tried with our phones to and made no difference.

She called into the dealer and they muttered something about a very poor signal out "your way" and "sur drop it in and we will look at it".

Any suggestions on may be issue and possible solutions?

Make sure phone has latest OS updates and latest app. Restart phone & mower before pairing.

If you factory reset do you need the original pin code?

Definitely, weathers warm bright and moist. I think growing season will be pushed further into the year. As a new normal. Tbh I run mine into November most years anyway.