Husqvarna Automower® 115H Robotic Lawn Mower, Small – Medium Yards (0.4 Acres)

The media could not be loaded. I bought it about 1 1/2 years ago. I think it is the most satisfied merchandise I bought so far!I have a fenced backyard about 0.25 acres and the front yard with walkway. The version I bought is free installation so after appointment, the installer took about 2 hours to install it.The product works well. especially on my back yard, it mows diligently on its scheduled time and back for charge until getting the job done. For the front yard, even it is complicated several pieces, to my surprise it works too. But I have to move the mower to the front, put it to work then back to charge. But anyway, I don't need to mow by myself.I did get a problem earlier this year when I tried to put the mower to work, but found it did not start, the light on the charge station flashed. I called the installer to take a look, was told the cable in the ground was broken. He took 1 hour to find it and told me it was eroded. But I thought it might be the squirrels who hided their winter food such as black walnuts destroyed it.Anyway, the product itself is very solid, it is made in England. I did not have any problem with it so far.

Robo mowers are not easy to get going.I live in an area with thin rocky soil, this made using the included cheap plastic stakes super hard. The stakes would bend or break everyone you start hammering them down into our thin soil.After a few hours of attempting to install my self I decided to reach out to husqvarana to get a professional installation. This introduced another problem. According to husqvarana There were 2 “dealers” that did installation within a 100 mile radius from our large texas city with a population of over 1 million people. I called and emailed both “dealers” nether did installations or worked with husqvarana any longer.So now I’m back at doing my own install, not a huge deal, it would take me some time to do this right. I did the micro trenching my entire yard perimeter , took me 3 weekends to finish paying the boundary wire and another 2-3 hours to lay the guide wire.Now I’m thinking, great all done! Time to turn this thing on! I click the button nothing happens , it just stays on “charging”. Turn it off turn it on, click start… mowing…. But it moved 6 inches then spun and then returned to base. Called husqvarana and Amazon support , no luck. So after spending a great amount of time setting this thing up the mower just did not work.Amazon did great in allowing us tk return the item, they are always customer focused. However not the same can be said about husqvarana.This is just my experience, a lot of it could be user error in my end, however after troubleshooting with husqvarana and Amazon we could not identify the problem.Also if you have a green thumb, are motivated and enjoy playing in the yard, then this experience might be fun for you. This is not the case for me. I hate yard work lol.This review is solely on my experience attempting to get the mower working. I was unable to do so , so I can’t comment on how good the unit is once everything works. However I can comment that the initial investment in time to get this thing set up and working is immense if you have un ideal soil and a yard of about .25 acres.I might try a new unit to see if it’s just a bad device issue, I will update the rating if anything changes.Good luck!

My application: Fenced in backyard, ~4000 sq ft of flat yard, no obstacles.Prior to installation, I made sure to mow the lawn myself to a short length that I would like the automower to maintain the lawn at.Deciding the location for the charging unit station, I found a relatively flat, partially shaded spot up against the house to provide some protection from the elements (I also later purchased a garage to cover the automower while parked). I did get a 12ft extension cable to connect to a nearby outdoor outlet by our A/C unit.The directions for the automower say there should be a clear direct path 6ft out from the charging unit (this is important for the automower returning to the charging station after mowing). I have witnessed the automower unable to connect itself back to the charger unit, or unable to place itself back into the charger because of this requirement. Choose this place carefully. No detail is too small. The flatter the surface, the easier it will be for the automower to enter the charging station.After finding a place for the charging base station, I laid out the boundary wire, essentially following my backyard fence line and rear of our home. The instructions do say you can lay the boundary wire above ground, secured with the hard plastic stakes that are included (there are a lot of them, so don't feel that you need to get extra). This is one part I skimped out on, and it's important that all boundary wire is secured close to the ground so that the automower's wheels do not get caught on them, or end up getting caught in the mower's cutting blades (both have happened to me, and I have made several more walkthroughs of the boundary wire to ensure nothing is sticking far above ground so as to get caught or cut).Properly laying your boundary wire and securing it with the stakes is the most essential part of this purchase. Put as much time and effort into this process as you can so as to avoid additional troubleshooting time and off-time of the mower in the future. Take your time with this, do not rush it like I did.After laying the boundary wire, laying the guide wire (using the same wire as you did for the boundary wire) required a lot less ground to cover, but still involved some additional work after the first time laying it down. I'd come out to the yard after several weeks of it running, to discover some of the wire had come up off the ground enough to get snagged by the automower. I think using a plastic stake every 8-12 inches of boundary and guide wire would be sufficient. Use your best judgement, but don't take any chances of any wire being exposed. If I had to do this part again, I would do a walkthrough of both the boundary and guide wire to ensure no wire was resting off the ground. I can't stress enough how important this part is.Once the wires were laid and secured, you simply attach both ends of the boundary wire as well as the guide wire to the back of the charging station after crimping them to a connector. Once this is complete, your ready to sit back and watch it mow.The troubleshooting I encountered in the first few weeks of ownership were the mower getting caught on boundary/guide wire, the dreaded no loop signal, and the automower not fully attaching itself to the charging station. Don't rush your installation. Take several days if you need to, but once you're 100% confident that the wire is laid securely, you can start it up and take great fun in watching it mow. This will save you a lot of time troubleshooting and worrying that your automower is not going to work out. It's saving me from mowing in this Texas heat, and I am quite certain doing this has saved some years of my life.Overall, I am happy with this investment.

The mower it self has worked great. The issue is with the app, it appears that the app will no longer connect via Bluetooth, which makes the app useless and makes the mower more inconvenient to operate. Fortunately the mower will run without the app, it’s just harder to setup and if you decide to stop the mover or to change the mowing schedule you have to go out to the mower and use the keypad on the mower. Not a big deal, unless it’s raining hard and you out in the rain trying to get the unit to go and park. Yes, it will operate in the rain, but it does not like mud. Did it once, now I always leave it parked if it’s going to rain.