Any self hosted robotic lawn mowers?

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

The summer and its rabid heat is here and i still have a lot of lawn that hasnt been replaced by gardens yet (work in progress) and grows super fast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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CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
Not a direct answer to your question but the first step in replacing a lawn with a garden the nodig way is to cover the grass with something like cardboard and then cover the cardboard with as much as 12 inches of woodchips.

You can get the woodchips for free most of the time as arborists need places to dump. Try to be careful of the type of tree however as some trees have a higher activity than others.

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sorghum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
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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- irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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.
  
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  - sorghum@sh.itjust.works ⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    My problem with them was they never seemed to be able to handle a yard large enough in order to justify their price.
    
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mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com ⁨34⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
It’s important to me to use devices and services that are local only, but I could only find such robot mowers that are beyond my skillset to build. I have no interest in building and 3d printing and flashing firmware, etc. I just want to buy a device and use it, without my privacy being sold. I’m willing to pay, but I guess there’s not enough market for anyone to build/sell that.

Same with vacuums, by the way. I have a dreametech model that’s supported by Valetudo, but the instructions to flash it sounded difficult and risky enough that I just use it as is, with my home map (and whatever other data it gleans) going through Dreametech’s servers and being sold to whomever.

Sad.

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ryokimball@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
… I have no idea but I would imagine there’s a large overlap with the vacuums

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A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Not sure “selfhosted” is the right term here, but a Quick Search™️ for “opensource lawnmower” returns this:

https://github.com/ClemensElflein/OpenMower

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irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

I might just deal with the heat and get a push mower

You’re a better man than I Gunga Din. I got up at 5:00 AM the other day and cut grass. I’ve got a lot of lawn, so I’ve got a 54" Toro ZTR and a bush hog for the tractor. It’s 109 F in the shade, and the ‘feels like’ temp is probably hotter than Beelzebub’s ball sack. There’s be no way I’d push it.

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curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
https://openmower.de/

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AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
I wish openmower supported more HW.

There’s also Vitilus at lacina.dev that seems like it has potential, but I haven’t looked too deeply at what state it’s in.

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