Hey guys it's Warren here and today we're going to be taking a look at the Worx Landroid.
Specifically how you set it up, how the mower runs and importantly, some of the security features to
make sure no once can steal your new robot lawn mower. Now here's a look at my lawn and as you can
see it's not huge so for that reason, I've got the Landroid s300 for up to 300 metre squared. Plus
I've also put down some additional turf to make a home especially for the Landroid charging station.
With a smaller garden as space is more at a premium, I'm using the bare minimum requirements
for the space required for the charging station. Therefore I do feel it was going to be hit and
miss as to weather the mower was going to be able to dock and dismount the charging
station successfully in such a confined space but we will find out if it can do it later.
For reference the docking station needs a minimum 30cm clearance on the left and 80cm on the right.
In addition I also have an irrigation system and in the manual it's recommended to keep
the Landroid away from it. So I've wrapped some self-amalgamating tape around the dripping holes
that are near the docking station. And now I'm happy with the placement I can
secure the docking station to the grass using the included screws and allen key.
And now it's time for the next part of the setup - Powering everything on. Initially the LED light
should go from green to red. The red light means the boundary wire currently isn't connected.
So what we can do whilst we're laying our boundary wire is charge the Landroid mower up.
Insert the 20v battery into the back then place the mower onto the charging station
so the charging points make contact. Now, the boundary wire is an essential part of
the setup because this is what tells the Landroid where the edges of your lawn are.
Specifically this will the Landroid when it needs to turn around because it's reached the edge of
your lawn plus the Landroid will also follow the boundary wire when it's doing an edge cut.
Laying your boundary wire is actually really simple and doesn't actually take that long.
How you do it is you connect one end of the boundary wire to the red contact point of the
charging station, feed it through the base then start pegging it down to the lawn. My flowerbeds
run flush with the lawn which means I only need to leave a 10cm gab between the boundary wire and the
flowerbeds. If you want your Landroid to make a perfect right-hand turn on an outside corner use
the cardboard triangle you get with the mower and lay the boundary wire around it as shown.
If you don't have a flush border, for example if you have decking, you then need to leave a 26cm
gap between the boundary wire and the decking. I also recommend leaving some excess pieces of
boundary wire like shown in case your borders change. When you have two pieces of boundary
wire next to each other like this, each wire cancels each other out and therefore the mower
will ignore them - So it's great for planning ahead. Once you've laid your boundary wire all the
way around your lawn, returning to the charging station, simply trim the wire and connect it to
the remaining connector on the dock. And within a short period of time, the grass should have grown
over your boundary wire so you can no longer see it. And now for the next step,
let's setup the Landroid mower itself. This can be done easily using the Landroid app by scanning the
QR code on the back of the mower. This allows you to easily connect your mower to your WIFI network.
Now to setup the security features. Firstly you can only manually turn on the Landroid
mower by inputting a PIN number only you have set. Secondly you can enable an alarm
so if someone tries to steal your mower, it will sound when it's lifted. And for peach of mind,
your mower will stop working if it disconnected from your WIFI network after a period of time. All
in all you have very little to worry about when leaving your Landroid in your garden on it's own.
Now it's time to leave me Landroid to perform it's maiden mow of my lawn.
Firstly what's great is the Landroid seems to reverse slightly at an angle before coming off
the charging station. Which means I left plenty of space for when it's disembarking. I also set the
Landroid app to auto-schedule which meant whilst it was still initially learning about the lawn, it
took about 45 minutes to mow each session. After a week, auto-schedule has now set itself to now mow
7 days a week at about 15 minutes per session with two edge cuts. And the edge cut feature
is genuinely brilliant. It does a really good job of going all the way up to the edge of the lawn,
making sure the edges are kept nice and trim. It does a great job of this both on the flowerbed
and also on a patio area I have that's flush with the lawn. And now that bit I was worried
about - Will it be able to squeeze back into that space to recharge? And thankfully it did!
And now we're going to look at the anti collision system (ACS) you can also get for your Landroid.
This is basically a device that detects obstacles in front of the mower so it can then slalom around
them. It's an add-on you can purchase and it's super simple to install simply by connecting
the wires and screwing it into place. But how well does it work? Bring on the testing ground!
If like me you have a small child, and that usually means your garden is quite messy then this
is something definitely worth considering. The ACS device genuinely does a great job at slaloming
around objects before it hits them. What's also great is it also does them with minimal clearance
no matter what size the obstacle is - For example if it's a thin washing line or a big
round space hopper! So there you have it, there are my first impressions of the Worx Landroid.
I think it's great because it takes one less thing off my jobs list in the Summer
plus it is actually really easy to set up. I was genuinely worried about the security implications
and what if someone wanted to steal the Landroid but I've since learned because of the security
features we mentioned earlier, it's built so it can only be used within the perimeter of the lawn
in which it was setup. In addition you can genuinely leave the Landroid to just do it's
thing and just not worry about it at all. The auto-schedule feature means it will just figure
out what it needs to do and when and you can just leave it to it. All in all I think it's
the perfect robotic addition to my home and also be sure to look out for forthcoming videos on how
to maintain your Landroid mower and a review of my lawn after the Summer all on my Youtube channel.