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The summer and its rabid heat is here and i still have a lot of lawn that hasnt been replaced by gardens yet (work in progress) and grows super fast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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[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago

It depends on what you mean by robotic mowers. If you mean motors that drive the wheels and you don't have to walk behind them (or sit on them), yes, these exist without any cloud service. However, if you mean autonomous, then I don't think those are here yet. The non-cloud robot mowers use human held remote controls.

I can think of one that is autonomous and doesn't require the cloud for operation, but does require the cloud for the inital setup and mapping. Once it has the map loaded in, it doesn't need an internet connection.

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