Changed my mind
Updated review – After several months of use (4 stars)
Having owned my Worx Landroid for several months now, I wanted to return and update my original review, which I’ve left below for reference.
As you’ll see, I was initially extremely frustrated by the difficulty of connecting the Landroid to my home Wi-Fi network. Despite numerous attempts, the only way I eventually managed to establish a connection was to disconnect all other devices from my network, leaving just my mobile phone connected to the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi band.
However, once I overcame that initial hurdle, my experience changed completely.
Since then, the app has worked flawlessly. It’s intuitive, straightforward to use and reliably sends the Landroid out to mow according to its schedule. In fact, compared with the apps for other smart devices I own, including robotic vacuum cleaners, I’ve found the Landroid app considerably easier to use.
The mower itself has also performed extremely well. So much so that I’m now seriously considering purchasing a second Landroid for my back garden. Having experienced how well the system works once configured, I would have absolutely no hesitation in buying another.
Having done some further reading, I appreciate that Wi-Fi connectivity problems during initial setup aren’t necessarily unique to Worx. Similar difficulties appear to affect robotic mowers from other manufacturers too.
For anyone experiencing the same connection problems, my advice would be to try temporarily disconnecting other devices and ensuring that only the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi network is operating during setup. This was the solution that worked for me.
Unfortunately, I’m currently using Sky Broadband, and its router settings aren’t particularly flexible or intuitive when it comes to making these sorts of adjustments. That certainly added to my initial frustration.
My conclusion: I can’t quite award five stars because the initial connection process was unnecessarily difficult. However, once connected, the Landroid and its app have been excellent. The mower does exactly what I want, the app is reliable and the whole system is remarkably straightforward to operate.
I’m therefore updating my rating to four stars, and I would happily recommend the Landroid to others. In fact, I’m considering buying another one myself, which is probably the strongest recommendation I can give.
My original review is below, so readers can see the difficulties I initially experienced.
Original review
The Landroid simply refuses to connect to Wi-Fi, which renders the app completely useless. It just keeps saying the mower is offline and gives no useful information about what’s actually wrong. I’ve now entered my router’s long, mixed upper- and lowercase password more than 20 times, tried disabling different parts of the Wi-Fi, checked it’s broadcasting on the correct frequencies, and still, over three hours later, I get the exact same offline message.
Extremely frustrating. At this point I’m ready to put the whole thing back in the box and send it back.
Having owned my Worx Landroid for several months now, I wanted to return and update my original review, which I’ve left below for reference.
As you’ll see, I was initially extremely frustrated by the difficulty of connecting the Landroid to my home Wi-Fi network. Despite numerous attempts, the only way I eventually managed to establish a connection was to disconnect all other devices from my network, leaving just my mobile phone connected to the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi band.
However, once I overcame that initial hurdle, my experience changed completely.
Since then, the app has worked flawlessly. It’s intuitive, straightforward to use and reliably sends the Landroid out to mow according to its schedule. In fact, compared with the apps for other smart devices I own, including robotic vacuum cleaners, I’ve found the Landroid app considerably easier to use.
The mower itself has also performed extremely well. So much so that I’m now seriously considering purchasing a second Landroid for my back garden. Having experienced how well the system works once configured, I would have absolutely no hesitation in buying another.
Having done some further reading, I appreciate that Wi-Fi connectivity problems during initial setup aren’t necessarily unique to Worx. Similar difficulties appear to affect robotic mowers from other manufacturers too.
For anyone experiencing the same connection problems, my advice would be to try temporarily disconnecting other devices and ensuring that only the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi network is operating during setup. This was the solution that worked for me.
Unfortunately, I’m currently using Sky Broadband, and its router settings aren’t particularly flexible or intuitive when it comes to making these sorts of adjustments. That certainly added to my initial frustration.
My conclusion: I can’t quite award five stars because the initial connection process was unnecessarily difficult. However, once connected, the Landroid and its app have been excellent. The mower does exactly what I want, the app is reliable and the whole system is remarkably straightforward to operate.
I’m therefore updating my rating to four stars, and I would happily recommend the Landroid to others. In fact, I’m considering buying another one myself, which is probably the strongest recommendation I can give.
My original review is below, so readers can see the difficulties I initially experienced.
Original review
The Landroid simply refuses to connect to Wi-Fi, which renders the app completely useless. It just keeps saying the mower is offline and gives no useful information about what’s actually wrong. I’ve now entered my router’s long, mixed upper- and lowercase password more than 20 times, tried disabling different parts of the Wi-Fi, checked it’s broadcasting on the correct frequencies, and still, over three hours later, I get the exact same offline message.
Extremely frustrating. At this point I’m ready to put the whole thing back in the box and send it back.
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Does not work
I Spent 2½ hours setting up my brand-new Worx Landroid in the garden, then download the app. The app itself looks fairly user-friendly at first glance, but access is limited and the whole experience falls apart almost immediately.
The Landroid simply refuses to connect to Wi-Fi, which renders the app completely useless. It just keeps saying the mower is offline and gives no useful information about what’s actually wrong. I’ve now entered my router’s long, mixed upper- and lowercase password more than 20 times, tried disabling different parts of the Wi-Fi, checked it’s broadcasting on the correct frequencies, and still, over three hours later, I get the exact same offline message.
Extremely frustrating. At this point I’m ready to put the whole thing back in the box and send it back.
The Landroid simply refuses to connect to Wi-Fi, which renders the app completely useless. It just keeps saying the mower is offline and gives no useful information about what’s actually wrong. I’ve now entered my router’s long, mixed upper- and lowercase password more than 20 times, tried disabling different parts of the Wi-Fi, checked it’s broadcasting on the correct frequencies, and still, over three hours later, I get the exact same offline message.
Extremely frustrating. At this point I’m ready to put the whole thing back in the box and send it back.
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Two much requested app changes
1. Please add a log of zone name and date mowed.
2. Enable user thorough app to restart mowing in a zone or send mower home after someone has picked-up or otherwise moved Landroid WR342 within the zone, such as when a neighbor helps move a stuck mower out of a trapped location while I’m out of town.
2. Enable user thorough app to restart mowing in a zone or send mower home after someone has picked-up or otherwise moved Landroid WR342 within the zone, such as when a neighbor helps move a stuck mower out of a trapped location while I’m out of town.
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Appli et tondeuse nuls
Je n’ai jamais vu un robot aussi idiot. J’ai le modèle avec fil, et j’ai ajouté les capteurs à 100€ pour améliorer un peu son comportement, mais même avec ça… Force comme un debile lorsqu’il rencontre de la résistance, donc creuse des trous partout. Se bloque pour rien. Parfois (rarement), il comprend qu’il est bloqué, alors il s’arrête, recule, tourne à droite. La logique voudrait qu’à ce moment là, il aille tout droit, mais non ! Il retourne à gauche, pour se remettre obstinément dans la direction du blocage. Ce manège peut durer indéfiniment. Et c’est de pire en pire puisqu’à chaque blocage, il creuse un peu plus profond, donc se bloque encore plus etc. Aucun moyen de régler cela dans l’appli. Depuis un certain temps, lorsqu’il a finit de couper la bordure ou lorsqu’il arrive à sa base après avoir finit la tonte, il s’arrête à la base, puis repart ! Il va parfois refaire le tour du jardin 2,3,4 fois, ou bien jusqu’à tomber en panne de batterie. Le moindre petit espace de blocage disponible (il ne lui faut pas grand chose pour se bloquer), il ira s’y coincer aussitôt soyez en sûr. Alerte fil manquant sans arrêt alors que tout est ok. Puis ça revient tout seul. Si l’alerte a duré trop longtemps, il se sera éteint bien sûr, comme ça vous ne savez pas où il est dans le terrain. Vous indique d’un seul coup « mode festif », ou « retard de pluviosité » n’importe quand. Réglages très limités. J’en passe, c’est de la daube intersidérale. J’ai payé ce robot 600€+100€ de capteur pour palier à son inefficacité. Une blinde vu son niveau de nullité. Je vous conseille vivement de mettre plus cher et d’acheter un robot d’une VRAIE marque.
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App is good for the most part
One thing that bothers me is not allowing the user to zoom in more on the map... especially while it's mowing.
Notifications Gone from watch after updating to latest iOS
I used to get a notification on my watch when finished, stuck etc. I have bought a new phone and updated my watch to latest os now watch app gone and no notifications. Now have no clue what’s happening if I don’t have my phone. No support anywhere for the app, just faqs. It would also be nice if I could remote control my landroid as it keeps missing bits
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Does not work
I Spent 2½ hours setting up my brand-new Worx Landroid in the garden, then download the app. The app itself looks fairly user-friendly at first glance, but access is limited and the whole experience falls apart almost immediately.
The Landroid simply refuses to connect to Wi-Fi, which renders the app completely useless. It just keeps saying the mower is offline and gives no useful information about what’s actually wrong. I’ve now entered my router’s long, mixed upper- and lowercase password more than 20 times, tried disabling different parts of the Wi-Fi, checked it’s broadcasting on the correct frequencies, and still, over three hours later, I get the exact same offline message.
Extremely frustrating. At this point I’m ready to put the whole thing back in the box and send it back.
The Landroid simply refuses to connect to Wi-Fi, which renders the app completely useless. It just keeps saying the mower is offline and gives no useful information about what’s actually wrong. I’ve now entered my router’s long, mixed upper- and lowercase password more than 20 times, tried disabling different parts of the Wi-Fi, checked it’s broadcasting on the correct frequencies, and still, over three hours later, I get the exact same offline message.
Extremely frustrating. At this point I’m ready to put the whole thing back in the box and send it back.
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Great, but room to improve.
I love my Landroid Vision Cloud 4WD and find the app good to use. However, it doesn’t seem to have an option to give feedback and I do not wish to contact support for every thing. Please add a feedback form.
I’d love if the app could show photos of obstacles it avoided. Perhaps we could classify them. You have to swipe in order to see the rest of the screen. I find I often have paused the mower or returned it home from those finger presses, so try to prevent that. In-app videos, such as how to use the mower’s physical buttons (what to press when, and in what order) would be useful. I’d like to prioritize the order of zones when mowing since it may not all be done that day. Thanks for putting out a fantastic mower. I’m so glad I do t have to rescue this mower like I did frequently with my prior Husqvarna automower.
I’d love if the app could show photos of obstacles it avoided. Perhaps we could classify them. You have to swipe in order to see the rest of the screen. I find I often have paused the mower or returned it home from those finger presses, so try to prevent that. In-app videos, such as how to use the mower’s physical buttons (what to press when, and in what order) would be useful. I’d like to prioritize the order of zones when mowing since it may not all be done that day. Thanks for putting out a fantastic mower. I’m so glad I do t have to rescue this mower like I did frequently with my prior Husqvarna automower.
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Worx WR342 grundsätzlich zufrieden, aber …
Ich bin grundsätzlich zufrieden mit dem Mähroboter, auch wenn es Ecken in meinem Garten gibt, mit denen der Worx irgendwie nicht klar kommt. Mit der App bin ich allerdings nicht sehr zufrieden. Wenn ich den Worx in den Partymodus versetze und nach z.B. einer oder zwei Stunden weitermachen möchte, muss ich das direkt über den play button tun, da er andernfalls erst wieder zum regulären nächsten Start weitermähen würde. Aber wenn ich den play button drücke, verschwindet die Anzeige der noch zu mähenden qm, benötigte Zeit und Prozentanzeige und die Anzeige wird auf Anfang zurückgestellt, als ob der Mäher gerade erst angehängt zu mähen und nicht bereits die Hälfte oder mehr gemäht hat. Hier sollte noch etwas an der App gefeilt werden.
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Machine is fine, but it’s brain is dumb
This thing needs to be reprogrammed. The sensors are too sensitive and the process for clearing errors is so bizarre. Most errors are false positives or the result of the machine being extremely too sensitive. Many times you have to clear the error by going to the mower instead of clearing the bogus error code from the app. Or an error code will be legit but the machine and app won’t clear the error even after the issue is resolved (for example if it gets stuck on the way to the charger and then you put it on the charger your self it’ll say it’s still stuck and won’t start charging because it thinks it’s still stuck). This is so inefficient. Also, the controls in the app don’t make any sense. Programming a session is clear but then it is unclear if it’s actually following what you programmed it to do. And there is no clear option to stop a session in the middle and reprogram. It keeps mowing the back when it’s supposed to be in the front and it’s impossible to redirect.
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Machine is fine, but it’s brain is dumb
This thing needs to be reprogrammed. The erratic way it aimlessly roams to cut instead of following a consistent, logical route is infuriating. It looks awful. Also, it constantly gets stuck. And the reason it gets stuck is that it roams aimlessly instead of following a set route so it wanders into trouble that would have been avoided if it weren’t randomly cutting jagged patches. Set up and mapping was fine but actual mowing is a mess. The programmers need to upload a patch to give the option for me to set a route for it to follow so it’ll actually do what it’s supposed to do instead of just making an erratic mess and getting stuck.
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Finally almost Flawless
After almost two years my little orange wonder is nearly flawless in operation. It just took a lot of perseverance.
Bonne application, mais !!!
L’application et très bien mais pour la carte il serait judicieux de mettre une vue satellite, en plus pour créer des chemins on devrait pouvoir le faire grâce aux dessins comme les zones interdites, d’ailleurs , pour les zones interdites il faudrait avoir plusieurs possibilités de dessin, genre carré, cercle ou triangle, ou main libre
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Unable to remove zones
Since update, I am unable to remove zones from one time cutting option
Worx wr155
I love how it cuts
4WD Bought 2
Really love these and I don’t see how anyone wouldn’t, seems to be the best robot mower available.
One thing that would be awesome is if you could select from the APP which zone to mow and press go. My front yard has 4 zones and I never know which one it’s going to do, I just pause it at its searching zones and then press mow. The app user experience could use some work….. but the Landroids are AWESOME overall.
One thing that would be awesome is if you could select from the APP which zone to mow and press go. My front yard has 4 zones and I never know which one it’s going to do, I just pause it at its searching zones and then press mow. The app user experience could use some work….. but the Landroids are AWESOME overall.
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Bien mais …
Je possède un Landroid depuis quelques mois et en suis plutôt satisfait. L’appli est globalement instinctive et facile d’utilisation. Plusieurs défauts cependant : il faut une wifi dans le jardin de bonne qualité, ce qui est compliqué pour les maisons anciennes. De plus, le robot se plante assez régulièrement, sans possibilité de le redémarrer à distance. C’est dommage car la plupart du temps ce n’est pas un vrai plantage. Par ailleurs le robot bippe beaucoup, en particulier en mode bordures. On devrait pouvoir changer ça.
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Great product
Easy set up following the Quickstart guide up and running in less than an hour
Worth it if you stick with it.
Took two seasons but now it works 99% flawlessly on terrain no-one else can match.
Bad updates
App update turned off party made, came home to my freshly sprouted over seeded lawn destroyed.
Thanks a bunch. 😡
Thanks a bunch. 😡
