Worx Landroid M500 robot mower after 6 months on. 

Very funny video, and it's true, when the landroid start working, you can stay watching for hours :)

I have a small 127m2 lawn - mostly weeds - in a garden that I am away from most of the time as my house is in France and I currently have to spend most of my time in England. 4 months ago I installed one of these to try to keep the weeds under control while I am away and I have to say that so far I am very impressed! I am aware that the manufacturers don't encourage using the landroid while unattended but life's not that simple as we all know and I think they would do well to maybe try to cater to remote users by adding a user override on the app to take control after it has gone into outside of wire lockdown, even after it has shut down, and directional controls to the app to try to get it back within the wire should it stray - assuming the user has visual CCTV contact as I do! My lawn is small but pretty uneven with a pronounced slope off around 2 sides and a fallen tree in one corner which is the main obstacle. I ran the guide wire on an isolated loop around this tree from the get go as I figured this would be prudent to keep the droid from getting stuck in the deep holes around the base and v-branch cul-de-sac at the other end. However, this has thrown up the only snag to my cunning plan in that if the droid goes into return to home mode automatically and hits the isolated circuit around the tree first it will just keep going around the tree in edge mode until it gets stuck. I don't know for sure if it will work out that it's on a separate loop and go looking for the outer wire circuit because it gets stuck in one of those holes I mentioned first. But that is the ONLY time it has got stuck so far and I now have 147 hours on the clock. I already had a CCTV system on my garden but I upgraded the existing static mute camera to PTZ with sound and added a second for full coverage. So now I can see and hear when the weather is good to set the droid off manually and keep an eye on it. I am now confident that there is no need to watch it while it's mowing but after 3 hours on a 4000mah battery it's time to call it home so I watch for when it's approaching the outer ring and hit the home button on the app. On the 4000mah battery sometimes it can go up to 4 hours and other times it will barely make 3 so it appears to vary the charge amount on a cycle which is why I need to keep an eye on it after 2 hours to make sure. Next spring I will re install the guide wire taking in more of the lawn now that I know what it can cope with and miss out the fallen tree. For that I guess I will need to get the OFF LIMITS kit. It does have the anti collision eyes so I might try that first to see how it goes. Hopefully then I will be able to leave it to run itself fully autonamously confident that it won't get stuck anywhere. Once on CCTV I watched it get caught up in overhanging brambles that had grown out since I last left the place. It was tugging back and forth and I thought for sure it would give up, but it just kept pulling, reversing, pulling one way, reversing pulling another over and over until eventually it was free. I have seen it get stuck in a couple of places on the lawn and work itself free, it's very tenacious! It also seems to learn as it hasn't got stuck in those places lately. So a lesson there is to make sure that anything likely to grow and overhang while you are away should be mercilessly cut back. Also, when it's really dry and the droid is in edge mode it will slide sideways on the one edge of the lawn a noticeable distance but it keeps going until it reacquires the wire and gets back on track. My garden is next to a road but has a high wall so not easily accessible for anybody with ill intent. In anycase the droid has built in security including a PIN - make sure to change it from default!! - to turn it on and an alarm which sounds and sends an app notification if picked up. This would make it not a lot of use as it stands to a would be theif but someone might decide to help themselves to the battery. One really good thing about the landroid from a security point of view is that it is so quiet it doesn't announce itself to the neighbourhood from an enclosed garden even when running. I hope to make a video about it on my channel probably early next year but in the meantime I can thoroughly recommend!

great video, john 👍. I wanna buy the 2022 model of the M 500 plus next days 😀

Nice job!

Cool toy John and great to see you back. 😊 Unfortunately our lawn is more like a field so it wouldn't be much use for me and I have a similar love of cutting grass to you. Some day I'll build an electric lawnmower suitable for my garden, maybe when the car is done. 😉

I find it weird how my roombas will map the house, and systematically clean it, doing over 160sqm in about 40mins to an hour. But most mowers seem to be random, and take hours and hours and hours to do a same kind of area.

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How are you finding the mower now? going for surgery soon and want to invest in an automower as won’t be fit to manually cut it.

How do you know when its full .does it beep or somthing

Is it still going strong?

Hire a gardner brother

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