GARDENA 15201-20 SILENO Minimo - Automatic Robotic Lawn Mower with Bluetooth app, Boundary Wire - for lawns up to 2700 Sq Ft, Made in Europe, Grey

This thing has really been great for my life. I live in a town house so cutting the grass in the backyard has always been such a project. Either lugging a lawnmower through the house or having an eye-soar in the backyard, but this robot is discrete and effective and my grass is thick and healthy now (not in the pic). If your space is enclosed like mine, you will need something for the edges, a weedwacker, because this won’t be able to get the very edges… Installation involves burying a wire around the perimeter of your home, but it was easy enough for me to do by myself (40 year-old female). Two years later, no regrets.

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.

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.

We purchased this in April of 2024. Installation was decent. But instructions are vague. Overall it does a good job maintaining our yard. Recently we got the dreaded loop error. Which took a couple days, and few hours after work each day to fix. I frankly have no idea why it needs a wire. It doesn’t seem to acknowledge it of anything. And if has never once “returned home” as the app says it’s doing on occasion. Like another review said, it just kinda poops out somewhere. So it’s like where’s Waldo. But overall, minus all the weird things about it, we enjoy not having to mow our yard in the Florida summer and rain.

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.

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.

It gets stuck sometimes but it's great. Definitely something I love. Doesn't have access to the app away from home though. You have to be on the home wifi to use it or activate it or check status

Service client assez pourri. Le montage est facile mais il faut quand même surveiller que le robot rentre à la base assez régulièrement. Parfois, il ne rentre pas, soi-disant parce que le robot est retourné (alors qu'il ne l'est pas). Parfois, la connexion à l'autre bout du jardin grille et il faut la remplacer. Il y a encore tout un tas de raison pour lesquelles le robot s'arrête. Je ne les ai pas toutes retenue. Là, pour l'instant, le robot ne tourne pas et je n'ai pas encore compris quel était le problème, mais j'ai reporté ça à plus tard vu qu'on est en hiver. Bref, je cherchais une solution magique pour ne pas devoir tondre ma pelouse mais je me retrouve à devoir trouver toutes les deux semaines pourquoi mon robot s'est bloqué (et j'ai même acheté l'abri station, que je trouve hyper cher pour un bout de plastique, de la marque pour protéger le robot)

Der Rasenmähroboter ist sehr zu empfehlen, er macht seine Arbeit ohne Probleme. Er ist klein und unscheinbar und auch sehr leise. Regen und und Wasser stören ihn nicht. Er arbeitet zuverlässig weiter! Die Installation ist recht simpel, die Programmierung per App ist anfangs etwas gewöhnungsbedürftig, aber wenn man sich damit eingespielt und angefreundet hat, läuft es gut. Er mäht sehr gründlich und kommt wirklich in die kleinsten Ecken des Gartens. Die Sensorik funktioniert sehr gut! Allerdings ist nach ca. 2,5 Stunden Arbeitszeit der Accu leer und der Mäher muss zurück in die Station. Bei einem kleinen Garten, z.B.100m³ allerdings kein Problem. Bei 250m² muss er allerdings zweimal rausfahren um die komplette Fläche zu bearbeiten.

Robot nunca funcionó. Probablemente la batería esta mal. Al momento de iniciar su trayecto se apaga y no se deja encender hasta meterlo a carga nuevamente. El paquete llegó completamente distruido y abierta. Pienso que fueron los inútiles de la aduana.

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A montagem é um pouco morosa. Tudo funciona bem. Testei todas as funcionalidades. Tudo de acordo com as especificações. Muito bom.