Any self hosted robotic lawn mowers?

2026-07-07 20:46 UTC

The summer and its rabid heat is here and i still have a lot of lawn that hasnt been replaced by gardens yet (work in progress) and grows super fast Im trying to get better and decouple myself from cloud services, but my searches for what robotic lawn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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@sorghum@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-07 20:54

openmower.de Here is the github: 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

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@ryokimball@infosec.pub 2026-07-07 20:53

… I have no idea but I would imagine there’s a large overlap with the vacuums

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@BOFH666@lemmy.world 2026-07-08 05:08

A lot of the Husqvarna/Gardena brand can be improved with a daughter board by Robonect. www.robonect24.de

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@Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-07-07 23:29

there are a couple of projects I’ve seen, and surely people will fork off one of the open robo-vac projects to spin knives. Robot mowers are in this grey area where if you have a big enough area to mow that you cant walk it in 15-30 minutes with a push mower, you could get a small riding mower for the same price, and now you also have a handy tractor too. I like them, but that’s because i’m a lazy tech head, but just like high end robot vacuums they seem like one of those things that you spend good money on, they work reasonably well for a while, then break and are unfixable and the company behind them doesn’t help. that said… there is a decent crossover in the region of “lazy tech head” and “enough disposable income” that would use a robot mower on a small lawn.

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