The lawn is about 8500m2.
You can still have the authentic driving the mower manually if you really want it with the robomower we have - it is slow, backbreaking (cocktail back - all that standing around following it at 5m with dodgy Bluetooth signal), keeps cutting out at the slightest obstacle, cuts out after 5s of inactivity, and boring as …!
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I’ve been using a robotic lawn mower - https://moebot.com.au (specifically the MoeBot S10) for a little over 8 months now, and overall it’s been a great experience. Once you get past the setup — especially if it uses boundary wires — the rest is pretty hands-off.
It’s an automatic lawn mower, so it sticks to a schedule and trims the grass a little every day, which keeps the lawn looking tidy all the time. What I really like is how quiet it is — I can run it early in the morning without disturbing anyone.
I also tested the MoeBot Acre Eater, which uses GPS instead of wires, and it’s much easier to set up, especially for larger or uneven lawns.
Only thing to keep in mind: these mowers are great for maintenance, but not for tackling overgrown or wet grass. Also, regular blade cleaning/sharpening helps keep performance consistent.
Using or promoting? - Given the obvious similarity of your chosen user name and the name of the product, I’d assume the latter.
Linking sites simply to drive clicks their way is not allowed per the forum T&C.
Perhaps you could explain your relationship to France as that is what we are all about here?
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Our patience with Eric, our boundary wire mower, has finally snapped, after weeks of illogical, and quite incomprehensible connection faults in its wires.We need to spend time apart. We have “seconded” him, permanently (!) to a friend’s easy-to-mow town garden in Sussex.
I’d really like to thank @Mik_Bennett and @SuePJ in particular for their very helpful questions/answers on both the choice of GPS enabled mowers, and set up/operating issues. Based on their feedback, we have now bought and installed a Mammotion Luba mini 800. It has already mowed our 600m2 (fairly irregularly shaped) lawn on its first full day. We’re impressed at its thoroughness, and methodical mowing approach. Assembly and installation was less painful than I feared..
Specifically, the tip from Mik on renaming the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz WiFi frequencies in the router was absolutely invaluable, and has no doubt saved lots of incomprehension and stress that would definitely have occurred otherwise. Prompted by Mik’s tip, I looked up how to actually do this (on AI) - as this process would otherwise have been completely beyond me to understand.I have never previously dared, needed, or wished to delve into the ‘plumbing’ of a router. In case there are others out there, nervous like me, of performing the same step, I attach below the generic guidance I followed from an AI chat bot. Our router is an SFR box, for completeness.
"To connect your robot mower to your WiFi via the 2.4 GHz band on your [name of router] you’ll need to separate the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz networks. By default, they may be “mutualised” under one name, which makes it hard for devices that only support 2.4 GHz to connect properly. Here’s how to fix that:
1. Access the Box Configuration Interface
- Open a web browser on a device connected to your [name of router] .
- Type 192.168.1.1 into the address bar and press Enter.
- Log in using your credentials. If you haven’t changed them, the default is often:
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Username: admin
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Password: admin or the one printed on the router label.
2. Navigate to WiFi Settings
- Go to the WiFi settings section.
- Look for options labeled “Band Steering”, “Dual Band”, or similar.
3. Separate the Networks
- You’ll see both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz listed.
- Rename the 5 GHz network to something like ‘Home-5G’
- Rename the 2.4 GHz network to ‘Home-2.4G’ or similar.
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This separation allows you to manually choose which band your devices connect to.
4. Save and Restart
- Save the changes.
- Restart your box if prompted (or manually if needed).
5. Connect Your Robot Mower- On your mower’s app or WiFi setup screen, select the 2.4 GHz network.
- Enter the WiFi password and complete the setup."
The rather stylish rain canopy over the (so far unnamed) Luba was originally Eric’s..
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Most impressive @George1 ! I take it your lawn is predominantly flat?
Poor, poor Eric.
Banished to the UK for the winter, with an interloper now sleeping in his bed.
Thanks for spontaneously posting about the existence of this 2.5 / 5 gHz problem, and the solution. One never knows when such stuff may be useful.
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It is definitely flat, though J shaped, with most of the ‘vertical’ of the J being out of sight of the RTK satellite receiver, behind our house. It doesn’t seem to concern the Luba, fortunately.
That’s interesting! Given that our land is rather more precipitous, I wonder whether it would work for that 
Ours certainly works with slopes - our garden is anything but flat. And it works with really rough ground - old mole hills and the like.
What is more of a challenge is the edges. The most recent lawn I programmed is alongside our neighbour’s field and the “boundary” is just a “cliff” where our lawn ends and his ploughed field begins. I discovered that I’d mapped a route for our luba too close to the edge, so one of the back wheels tipped over the edge as it was turning and there the mower stuck until I rescued it. It means that I need to strim the edges (which is a bit tedious) but for the rest, our mower is great. I already have bricks roughly laid alongside the borders which our mower mows over, so the border edges are okish.
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Love the cover. I baulked at the cost of one (silly of me) and just drape over a plastic tablecloth.
My robot cover is more Heath Robinson than George1. A disused water but cut in half with a drawer handle attached for lifting
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You could keep your F-16 in that. 
(as long as it was a small one)
I like how you’ve provided it with a strip of runway as well.
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From the Times News in Pictures today.
‘A robotic mower has chewed up the football pitch at SG Egels-Popens club in Aurich, Germany. The damage means home games will have to be cancelled until the spring.’
Apologies, I can’t manage to copy the image. The ground just looks like mud with ridges in it.
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Robotic mowers do what their owners ask of them. Don’t blame the mower. 
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A screenshot of the image
Thank you, Peter. It looks worse than I remember from earlier.
You’re very tolerant. George1’s Eric might be an exception though.
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