The summer and its rabid heat is here and i still have a lot of lawn that hasnt been replaced by gardens yet (work in progress) and grows super fast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

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      That’s pretty interesting. I remember when ‘robotic mowers’ became a buzz word way back when. They just never seemed to really take off on a mass consumer level or maybe I just haven’t noticed. Now something like a DeepKron would interest me.

      • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
        4·
        18 hours ago

        I have own, it’s been running for like 5 years now and I have never mowed my lawn manually more than one per year.

        Overall it’s not zero work and maintenance, you still need to do stuff. But like 1/10th of how much time and effort it took before

      • sorghum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        My problem with them was they never seemed to be able to handle a yard large enough in order to justify their price.

          • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 hours ago

            Sometimes, I envy you guys with your smaller lawns. I’ve got about 4 acres of ‘lawn’ which is partially taken up with a large set of raised vegetable gardens, goat and chicken pens, A couple acres to raise a few head of cattle on, then scrub brush and woods, and then 15 acres of farmland.

              • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                9 hours ago

                No, no…sorry. I didn’t mean to imply that I need a robotic lawnmower. Well, it’d be super cool, but it would have to be scaled considerably and hooked up to GPS. More so that I am at times envious because it takes me a good week+ to groom it all. The livestock tend their own plots, and the manure goes in a compost bin and then to my personal gardens.