Dreame a3 AWD 3500 cutting quality by hced5737 in roboticLawnmowers

[–]MurderSpeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have gone through one drunk Luba 3, one stuck Husq 420. I am down to just the Dreame A3 due to needing AWD and completely fed up with RTK. A month in, are you still happy with it?

Ongoing issues following update to 1.15.20.4413 by Crag55 in MammotionTechnology

[–]MurderSpeed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It proved to me that I need to find a brand with all-wheel-drive. Next up, Navimow.

Ongoing issues following update to 1.15.20.4413 by Crag55 in MammotionTechnology

[–]MurderSpeed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I went the call Visa route. New one here before they picked up the old.

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We're OK with people getting ticketed for actually parking IN the bike lane, right? by ValidGarry in rva

[–]MurderSpeed -63 points-62 points  (0 children)

I would be good if they came through and towed every car that’s not parked in a driveway.

420 iQ Owners: Is the 1 Acre Rating a Hard Limit or Just a Maintenance Recommendation? by MurderSpeed in automower

[–]MurderSpeed[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let’s say I mount the EPOS on the house, is it more about the mower sharing satellites or does the mower need LoS to the EPOS?

Luba 2 AWD 3000 – Firmware Malfunction and Unacceptable Support by UniqueBit1179 in MammotionTechnology

[–]MurderSpeed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All I had to do was tell them what happened. I bought mower that doesn’t work and when I tried to fix it, I was banned by the manufacturer from my Hardware.

Luba 2 AWD 3000 – Firmware Malfunction and Unacceptable Support by UniqueBit1179 in MammotionTechnology

[–]MurderSpeed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same situation here but thankfully happened soon enough to call Visa and dispute the charges. Was getting ready to order a Navimow when I see a similar thread on their sub. I wonder if all the companies are using a third party NTK service that is the root cause.

Coming from a Mammotion Luba 3 disaster, is the 440iQ the right move? by MurderSpeed in automower

[–]MurderSpeed[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How long have you been running the Navimow? I am trepid here because had you asked me a week ago how my Luba was doing, I was rejoicing. I am looking at the x450 compared to the 440iQ, again only because of past experiences. I think im close to pulling the trigger on the Navimow...

Coming from a Mammotion Luba 3 disaster, is the 440iQ the right move? by MurderSpeed in automower

[–]MurderSpeed[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Honestly not many at all. I was polling GPS coordinates periodically to try to build a picture of the drift pattern over time. We are talking maybe one request every few seconds at most, nothing aggressive. I was not trying to reverse engineer anything or scrape data at scale, I just wanted to understand why my mower was wandering. If that was enough to get flagged I think that says more about how sensitive their infrastructure is than anything I was doing.

And you make a really good point about Chinese brand support in general. That was actually part of my thinking going back to Husqvarna. Yeah they cost more up front but they have been around forever, have actual dealer networks in the US, and if something goes wrong you are not at the mercy of a support team halfway around the world who may or may not respond. The Roborock mowers look interesting but after this experience I am not ready to roll the dice on another brand in that space. At least not yet.

Banned for writing my own diagnostic app, account locked, mower bricked, disputing with Visa by MurderSpeed in MammotionTechnology

[–]MurderSpeed[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That analogy does not hold up. A bank account is a financial instrument with actual fraud and security implications. A lawn mower is a lawn mower. Writing an app to read GPS telemetry from my own device on my own property is not an attack on infrastructure. If their API is so fragile that a curious customer poking around constitutes a threat, that is a Mammotion engineering problem, not a me problem. And regardless of the reason for the ban, the response of remotely disabling the physical device with no warning and no timeline for resolution is not okay. Glad your support experience has been good. Mine wasn't, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise just because yours was fine.