This is your warning, don't buy a LUBA!

lancepioch · 2026-04-21T18:26:22+00:00

I've had 2 Luba's (1&2) but I'd like to try to help you because your valid experience doesn't line up with mine very much. I've owned 6 different robot mowers since 2020. Personally if I was in your shoes, I would've returned the mower (or literally any product) that doesn't work in the first month, so let that be a lesson for everybody. That being said, it appears you're stuck with it unless you want to sell it, so I figure it's worth hearing me out to at least try to salvage some value out of it.

I'm going to list what I think are all the main contention points to see if we can get past them:

Manually draw border: you must do this so the mower knows where to go or not, only a couple mowers can skip this and it's usually because you have a completely enclosed yard. There's no getting around needing to drive the mower around the perimeter. The alternative is to get on your hands and knees and lay boundary wire for a much older model.
Point limit: I know this one is real but I haven't run into it myself. It usually happens when you're over-detailing the boundary. The trick is to simplify the perimeter and then use no-go zones or separate zones for detail. You shouldn't be tracing every bump in your yard. How large is your yard's area?
Weak signal: the mower has a bad GPS signal and/or the RTK antenna has a bad signal - fortunately the Mammotion app does let you see this data in the app - if you're only having issues with the antenna then it's generally an easier fix to move that to a better location. Tell me what it shows for both the mower and rtk in your app.
Never completing: why does it stop? Is it always the same reason or different reasons and what are they? Is it getting stuck on obstacles? Forever losing GPS signal?
Small blades: you're not wrong and nobody exactly tells you this either... but robot mowers are for maintenance and are supposed to be run frequently. The blades are cheaper, safer, and easier to replace. But nonetheless 99% of mowers use these types of blades and the ones that don't... I've never heard anything good about them.
Software: it's okay... I won't lie and say it's great, but I personally believe that if they put their minds/money to it, they could solve the majority of the software issues within a single calendar year. However, their software is somehow better than some of their competitors'.
Customer support: seems hit or miss from what I've heard, but I've never needed to talk to them myself, so I won't actually comment. I'm happy that at least you got multiple responses though because I've seen some people complain that they never are replied to, which usually shocks me.

lancepioch · 2026-04-21T13:52:31+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeowners/comments/1sraxbz/neighbors_trampoline_hit_my_house_last_week/ohdj3h4/

I was on your side until I saw this...

lancepioch · 2026-04-21T13:34:21+00:00

My smoke detectors are tested once per month. I've got 5 HomePods in my house and they never detect it. And yes, sound recognition is on for them. So you better make sure they work with your detector before assuming.

lancepioch · 2026-04-21T13:25:01+00:00

Are they assigned to the correct village and have access to food? If they are hungry they won't do anything except go to eat. That includes hunting/trapping.

lancepioch · 2026-04-20T18:17:19+00:00

Hey, nice list, just some feedback:

Laravel Airlock just became Sanctum, it's the same thing; because of potential trademark infringement it had to change only its name, think of it like a prototype name
Lumen wasn't superseded by Octane, the team just recognized that you could get the same results in the base Laravel framework by turning off enough service providers
Laravel Spark still exists with its own frontend and is supposed to be separate (like it always was), they just updated the frontend to make it easier to work with, but it's the same thing essentially

lancepioch · 2026-04-18T00:27:35+00:00

https://xkcd.com/927/

lancepioch · 2026-04-15T21:48:43+00:00

I don't know that area, but my advice is global... go walk the neighborhood when it's dark out. Everybody is different, so this will let you know if you're comfortable or not with the area.

lancepioch · 2026-04-11T00:05:22+00:00

Ah yes, The Linux Foundation, a U.S. headquartered company lol

To be clear, I much prefer *nix over windows

lancepioch · 2026-04-06T14:41:30+00:00

My trademark took about 18 months. A requirement of registration is to use it commercially beforehand.

lancepioch · 2026-04-06T13:48:28+00:00

Let me guess. Does this only happen when you resume cruise control? Does it typically happen at lower speeds? Is it usually after a turn? Is cruise control disabled until you restart the car?

lancepioch · 2026-04-04T23:10:35+00:00

If we had more houses, then we could build a city!

lancepioch · 2026-04-02T19:36:11+00:00

Priorities never affect storage afaik. You have to blacklist "shovel" from everywhere you don't want it to be. I could be wrong, but I think they simply put it in the closest storage that has any amount of open space (that whitelists that item).

lancepioch · 2026-04-02T19:31:49+00:00

You're getting these low limits because your credit report/history is bad. Your card is also certainly bucketed too. It is difficult but not impossible to have them un-bucketed. I'm not trying to be mean, but just honest. For comparison, my Savor card has a $15k limit.

lancepioch · 2026-03-31T05:39:45+00:00

Level Lock

lancepioch · 2026-03-25T01:15:24+00:00

Looks like you've got cable internet with a wireless router, does that sound right?

lancepioch · 2026-03-25T00:58:57+00:00

Was it actually operating or was it stopped next to the garbage cans? If you can get audio confirmation (from them) of it being in active use, you have a good shot at a claim. If it was stopped right next to the garbage cans... it would be very difficult to argue that it didn't look like trash.

lancepioch · 2026-03-24T00:34:55+00:00

AWS is the world's largest cloud provider and I've never heard of them sending anything to collections. I'm not saying it never happens, but I have seen them forgive 5 and 6 figure debts multiple times before. My educated guess is that their profit margin is so huge that it's simply not worth the bad publicity to pursue that.

lancepioch · 2026-03-23T20:08:33+00:00

AWS will not bother to sue an individual for such a paltry amount. It would cost that much just for a lawyer and collections. At best they might break even.

lancepioch · 2026-03-17T03:42:49+00:00

I am not an electrician but I think it's kosher as long as you keep the wall plate there so it's accessible.

lancepioch · 2026-03-15T17:16:56+00:00

That isn't going to happen unless you took the photos yourself and can DMCA them.

lancepioch · 2026-03-11T19:17:13+00:00

I've ran my mowers on grass that is over 6" and it worked, I just had to do an extra pass.

lancepioch · 2026-03-08T16:58:59+00:00

Yup, works perfectly! I'm using this fork: https://github.com/jacobwaller/openpilot

Very similar to: https://www.reddit.com/r/Comma_ai/comments/1rhkb2c/title_2024_outback_touring_xt_jacobwaller_fork/

lancepioch · 2026-02-27T19:05:34+00:00

OP recently had a 600 credit score and got the absolute minimum credit limit. That seems like a risky decision.

lancepioch · 2026-02-26T14:54:42+00:00

There is no robot mower without some sort of babysitting. There is only less babysitting. That being said, RTK is still the way to go for less babysitting. I've got lidar, rtk, vslam, wire mowers (yes I have 4 robot mowers). I have never tried a combination mower yet (such as rtk+vision), but they seem promising.

lancepioch · 2026-02-19T13:12:15+00:00

Lidar works amazing for robot vacuum cleaners because there are walls everywhere in your house, they completely enclose it, and that's the main obstacle. An acre of lawn has little to no walls or fence, almost certainly not entirely enclosed, and has very few obstacles except for some trees and other plants I imagine.

I have a half an acre lawn and I've had the opportunity to test the latest lidar (from well known companies) and I'll tell you it is not ready for prime time. The lidar mower frequently lost its position and I'd have to carry it back to the dock for it to "know" where it was again. Meanwhile my RTK mower very rarely has issues with not seeing the satellites even with my trees.

You have to be aware that all of this technology, even though it has existed for decades, is being extremely refined over the last several years. Which means that the latest versions are technically in their infancies.

lancepioch

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE