GARDENA 15202-20 SILENO Minimo - Automatic Robotic Lawn Mower, with Bluetooth app and Boundary Wire, one of The quietest in its Class, for lawns up to 5400 Sq Ft, Made in Europe, Grey

I have a bad knee, anything that saves me from the weekly chore's gets extra bonus point from me. That being said this thing does do a great job. Install is a bit annoying (again bad knee) bending over and hammering in the wire. but once its setup i just loved to sit on the porch and watch the thing. Ran it for 2 hours 3x per week and the lawn always looked perfect. Got stuck maybe 4x the whole summer, had to go out and jostle it loose from a little divot in the lawn or something but for the time and sweat it saved me its well worth it. Blades are easy to change, seem to last plenty long. order a set of like 30 for 10$ and i bet a set would last me a whole season if i pushed it. 5 minutes to change them no reason not to every couple months. I do wish it used wifi so i could control it from anywhere, seems to only be bluetooth in the proximity of it. Also wish it would try and restart itself after a time when getting stuck, few times it did get stuck it was seemingly nothing just a slight bump in the lawn. if it would have tried to go again no doubt it would have been fine. Will see how it holds up. Will report back when it has any issue.

Not Reliable if you travel. You will have to pick up and bring back your it’s home often. It’s cuts really well and have had no issues w the battery. The boundary wire placement is an effort. If you can spend the extra dollars never get anything with a boundary wire again. My biggest regret. It runs well for a few days and I’m in love. Then I have to go out and bring it back. Either a boundary wire issue or can’t detect the wire or buggy software on app or it’s mows past an hour I scheduled and runs out of battery or it can’t find its way back often or on and on.

I live in Waimea on the Big Island of Hawaii and have a Kikuiyu yard. This thing is surprisingly really good. It’s definitely worth the money but you’ll have to put in some work to get it setup properly so that it doesn’t require too much maintenance. I’d recommend burying the boundary wire and the guide wire after a few weeks. I just used an edger to make a cut in the grass then push the wire into the kerf. You might want to lay it on the ground at first to find out how the mower cuts before burying it. I found that you don’t need a boundary wire around most obstacles like a kids play set and swings. The mower will just bump into walls and obstacles then just change direction and keep cutting. I found it cuts closer to walls if the wire is right up against them. You might want to stay about 3 inches away from concrete slabs and driveways so it cuts closer to the edge but not right on the edge in case you want to use an edger. Also when I got the mower it had a security pass code on it already and I almost returned the thing because resetting the code requires an old style usb and a computer. But I luckily guessed the code and it started working. The code I guessed was up, left, down, right, then hit the check mark in the middle. Just counter clockwise from the top. Usually during setup you set the code but for some reason it already had one.

I'm definitely happy with this purchase. I know, left to my own devices, my lawn would soon be a jungle. I am a fabulous unicorn. Fabulous unicorns do not do ... "Mowing". So enters "Bob Villa" my robot friend. The video is his inaugural run in my yard. It's a little overgrown because we've had sunshine and rain like our town is gunning to be the next rainforest (listen to the birds lol). So Bob has his work cut out for him. He can handle up to a 25% slope, so things like the rock he encountered in my yard the he can go over, but drags belly on, need to be marked off. Pros: little guy had decent movement power and obstacle solving abilities. There's also the ability to have the little dude start at a point and spiral out if the jagged pattern doesn't work for you. Charged fairly quickly. He does handle uneven ground fairly well as long as it's not too uneven. Then he will eventually try from another angle Cons: you REALLY Have to put the pins on the boundary cord every 2.5 or so feet to keep little guy from getting tangled. He's fairly low to the ground, so this is VERY important. Also, super important, look about halfway on my video, there's a big rock. It's low enough for him to not consider an obstacle, so he sparked out and got stuck on it. So there's a learning curve If you have a lawn area with a lot of roots, you may want to exclude that from his mowing area. He tries, but his clearance leaves a little to be desired unless you already have a perfect lawn and just want it maintained. I will probably update as he gets to more of the lawn and we work out all of the things that he has trouble with.

So wow. I have a roborock and the LiDAR and video processing sold me. It does great. The house is more dynamic and flexible. But roborock saves me time. This robot is equally good. Not as sophisticated but does not need to be. Putting the boundry wire down was easy. The guide wire was also clean. My lawn is small and not sloped. The first time it almost fell off my retaining wall so I moved it to 12 inches away from boundary instead of 13. All good. Runs every other night. Saved me at least a hundred bucks a month with my mow and blow guys as they don’t have to drag their mower in. So far so good. It’s simple but the job is simple.

I was very happy to buy it used almost new but there is a PIN from the 1st owner and it was impossible to get it. I called Amazon, I called Gardena to recover it, I stayed hours on the phone, they sent me an email to confirm what I was asking and nothing! I called again talk with someone else but they were not able to help me, Gardena has a bad customer service. I returned the robot, too complicated and too long! Be aware if it’s used you might not have the PIN…..

I have wanted a robot mower forever as I have two Roomba's in the house and I thought the engineering would be similar. They are not perfect but rarely fail. I've had this mower about 6 months and it is a daily chore to keep it running. The boundary wire is a big part of the problem. It's a huge pain to set it up, unlike when you watch the videos. You have to stake it about every foot or so to avoid line cuts. If your yard is irregular or bumpy, get ready to repair lots of line cuts. It comes set on the highest cut setting, which is very low even for Bermuda grass. There is no way this would mower would work for St Augustine or any grass which cannot be cut very low. You have no way of knowing the mower has stopped as it only has bluetooth and doesn't notify you. You will find it in random places where it decides to stop or has cut its own wire. (I bought two boxes of extra stakes to stake the wire down). It often will not find it's docking station despite painstaking troubleshooting on my part. Recently, the guide wire degraded but did not break and it stopped. I bought a line signal device and tried to locate the internal wire break. No luck. Replaced several section, no luck. Finally ripped up the wire and replaced it with another wire I ordered on Amazon. No luck. It didn't like that wire, which was a generic for robot mowers. Had to pay $100 bucks for the companies wire. Take my advice and spend the money to get a robot mower with wifi and one that does not require a boundary wire. Or buy an Ego push mower, which I also have, that has never malfunctioned. Update 03-24 I finally gave up on it and trashed it. It kept saying "No boundary wire" and I tried every internet solve. Bought a wire break tester and it showed no breakage. Replaced with a totally new boundary wire off Amazon and got the same message. Then purchased the boundary wire from the manufacturer or the mower (which is expensive) and relayed the whole thing again and still got the same error. I spend so many hours and a lot of cash trying to resolve the issue with no luck. Updated the software, reset the app, reset the base. I would not recommend anyone to buy a robot mower that will not run without a boundary wire.

Have had it for years. Debuted in pouring rain. The best man toy