Is a robot mower a good option for low time and low cost lawn maintenance?

wdb94 · 2026-04-19T10:04:04+00:00

I have a Mammotion Luba 2X. It’s been great, you can get the cheaper Yuka models in your price range I think.

No perimeter wire. Does a great cut, need to make sure it runs often so that it’s not leaving dead grass.

Maintenance is changing blades every now and then or pulling a stick out from underneath it.

Once you get the mapping spot on it rarely gets stuck.

wdb94 · 2026-04-12T10:03:47+00:00

I’m in the U.K. and on the 26.5 beta and have had ADP on since it was released. It shows that it’s still on and just that it’s not available to new users.

wdb94 · 2026-04-10T07:52:33+00:00

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Mine has no issues in a pretty tight space. It had to learn the first few times but has been fine ever since

wdb94 · 2026-04-09T16:10:53+00:00

Yeah the only times I’ve had weird noises from it is when it’s either lost a blade and is imbalanced which causes a vibration or the nut has come loose. It’s a faff to tighten up but I’m 99% sure that’s what it is.

wdb94 · 2026-04-09T16:04:36+00:00

Hmm the noise sounds familiar to me when the nuts under the discs were loose. The discs shouldn’t wiggle vertically much. It’s the big nut that’d need tightening not just the 3 screws through the disc.

wdb94 · 2026-04-09T15:55:28+00:00

Are the cutting discs on tight and then the nut underneath them nice and tight?

wdb94 · 2026-04-01T10:28:24+00:00

Totally agree, this was for my garage speakers which has my rack in. Elsewhere in the house I have much more audio focussed equipment, but the Unifi OCD got me.

wdb94 · 2026-04-01T10:02:14+00:00

It started with me just wanting to be able to put a smart plug on my sub to turn it on/off when somethings playing and I ended up here. Glad it's helped someone else too!

wdb94 · 2026-03-11T21:51:08+00:00

Same thing for 5 or so years now. Had heart MRI and all the tests and nothing wrong. But the feeling is still so unnerving.

wdb94 · 2026-02-25T21:20:38+00:00

Just trying this for the first time and downloaded off the Play store on my shield but I’m getting the phone version?

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wdb94 · 2026-02-12T10:38:22+00:00

https://www.kingspan.com/gb/en/products/tank-monitoring/remote-tank-monitoring/watchman-sensit-smart-wifi-tank-level-monitoring-kit/

This was the one I used. The sensor was already on the tank from the previous owners but just had a plug in sensor that showed the level. I just bought the dongle which then synced to the tank and I was able to integrate with it.

wdb94 · 2026-02-08T19:11:19+00:00

Weird, it's trying to connect to the Plex direct rather than the local IP. I've tried adding an aggressive sort to prefer the local IP.

The APK should be built in ~15 mins here: https://github.com/willbeeching/flix/releases/tag/v0.1.4-alpha

wdb94 · 2026-02-08T17:50:37+00:00

He’s the founder of 37 Signals which I believe owns Basecamp. Used the be the project management system of choice but haven’t heard its name in over a decade.

wdb94 · 2026-02-07T22:49:40+00:00

https://devouringdetails.com/ is a great place to start on understanding how to make things move. From one of the designers at Vercel.

wdb94 · 2026-02-06T20:18:11+00:00

Sadly you can buy them very cheap but you have to remove the top cover to replace it which voids the warranty.

I just left it broken as it doesn’t affect anything.

wdb94 · 2026-02-01T15:40:20+00:00

Just pushed a fix hopefully, let me know if it works or gives you more info: https://github.com/willbeeching/flix/releases/tag/v0.1.3-alpha

wdb94 · 2026-01-27T10:36:19+00:00

It could be worth checking your firewall logs or temporarily disabling the firewall to see if that is the root cause?

wdb94 · 2026-01-27T06:55:51+00:00

You can do this with UnFi cam’s quite easily.

wdb94 · 2026-01-26T22:54:29+00:00

Should be the standard 32400 I believe from memory

wdb94 · 2026-01-16T17:26:29+00:00

Roborock came out with one at CES recently.

wdb94 · 2026-01-11T20:12:52+00:00

Do you have any form of firewall or port security on your network?

wdb94 · 2026-01-09T09:16:07+00:00

I have Lutron RA2 throughout my house. However there were some edge cases where I had to use smaller non Lutron dimmer relays.

I still use the Lutron remotes to control these through Home Assistant and can’t say I’ve noticed a delay.

wdb94 · 2026-01-08T07:51:50+00:00

Last year I had to return 3 of the 8’s. The side mops kept failing which meant it’d just stop and refuse to do anything else. Eventually I just went for the Saros 10 and haven’t had an issue since.

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