Guarded Enthusiasm
This review is about the Lymow One Plus. My mower has been out of the box for 3 weeks at time of review, and so far, it's what I expected, considering the smaller size of the company and it's Kickstarter origin. It's not a perfect little machine. Almost every day it gives me a minor error, either being overly sensitive to throw a "slipping detected" error while on the charging dock, even though it's perfectly level and clean, or phantom "emergency stop button pressed" errors, but both are easily cleared remotely. And the active development of its software shows a lot of promise in them standing behind the product, making these errors less common with each update. This is the only auto mower design I like on the market, so my patience with the little errors is likely higher than most people's, and I knew what to expect going in. Expect some errors, expect to babysit it a bit. Report issues to help with further development. Remember, this product is just taking its first shakey steps out of Beta development. That being said, a lot of attention has been paid to making the app easy to use and understand. Bluetooth controls are very responsive, recording maps is extremely easy, and the mower seems to go out of its way to never go an inch beyond a boundary edge (if you have a boundary at the bottom of a slope, your results may vary). One oddity I've seen a few times, is when it's trying to turn, if the tread seems to just be spinning, it will turn the blades off, then make the turn with ease. Not sure why, but the blades being on seems to reduce its turning power? Not a big deal, just a strange observation. May be sorted out in a future model. For a little background, I usually avoid products from China, as they tend to be cheaply constructed or break easily. Because of the design, I wanted to give this company a chance to impress me. While I haven't been blown away, I AM mildly impressed, and looking forward to see how they can improve in the future. (A simple start would be, on future models, don't use such a cheap screen on the unit, the current screen is only 1 step above a Tiger Electronics handheld game from the 90s) - a random voice from rural New York