The summer and its rabid heat is here and i still have a lot of lawn that hasnt been replaced by gardens yet (work in progress) and grows super fast
Im trying to get better and decouple myself from cloud services, but my searches for what robotic lawn mowers are self hostable/dont require wan isnt giving me confidence
I might just deal with the heat and get a push mower and deal with it, but if anyone has experience with a good local-only robotic lawn mower, or which ones to avoid - id love to hear it
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Here is the github: https://github.com/ClemensElflein/OpenMower
Been following them for a bit, was going to build one a few years back, but instead bought a riding mower to pull double duty on teaching my daughter driving skiils
That’s pretty interesting. I remember when ‘robotic mowers’ became a buzz word way back when. They just never seemed to really take off on a mass consumer level or maybe I just haven’t noticed. Now something like a DeepKron would interest me.
My problem with them was they never seemed to be able to handle a yard large enough in order to justify their price.
A lot of the Husqvarna/Gardena brand can be improved with a daughter board by Robonect.
I wish openmower supported more HW.
There’s also Vitulus at https://lacina.dev/ that seems like it has potential, but I haven’t looked too deeply at what state it’s in.
It depends on what you mean by robotic mowers. If you mean motors that drive the wheels and you don’t have to walk behind them (or sit on them), yes, these exist without any cloud service. However, if you mean autonomous, then I don’t think those are here yet. The non-cloud robot mowers use human held remote controls.
I can think of one that is autonomous and doesn’t require the cloud for operation, but does require the cloud for the inital setup and mapping. Once it has the map loaded in, it doesn’t need an internet connection.
I might just deal with the heat and get a push mower
You’re a better man than I Gunga Din. I got up at 5:00 AM the other day and cut grass. I’ve got a lot of lawn, so I’ve got a 54" Toro ZTR and a bush hog for the tractor. It’s 109 F in the shade, and the ‘feels like’ temp is probably hotter than Beelzebub’s ball sack. There’s be no way I’d push it.
