Experience with an Ecovacs Goat O1200 LIDAR Pro
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Have recently gifted myself a somewhat nice robot lawnmower thinking it would buy me time on weekends(wrong).
It was also not as expensive as others on the market (got it for 750€ on the official app with the Garage).
It started well, pairing was easy, all the setup was done under 10min.
Mapping the first 650m² mostly flat Garden was done manually, going really close to the edge thinking it would do a better job this way (wrong).
I wanted to add the second part, which he cannot access by himself, and wasn't able to (my bad I should have searched if it was possible first).
Anyway, the first mow starts and everything goes well.
Until he found himself close to the fence.
Way to close for my comfort.
I stopped it and started adding NO GO Zone.
I restarted it and he went on is merry way.
Then I got a notification that he was stuck.
He wanted to u-turn in the No Go Zone, lost traction, dig himself a nice nest.
I contacted the support, which told me to remap and move the RTK station (it's a LiDAR version not the rtk one....).
Doing as I'm told, I also remap leaving extra spaces between borders and sensitive areas he shouldn't mow.
And it U turned again outside of the designated area.
The trimmer is useless for me. I have to leave huge gaps so it doesn't get stuck or hurt itself ( wich he did anyway).
Otherwise the cut is nice and well done.
Support is useless, the software isn't there.
I cannot recommend it.
(I apologize for any mistakes I made, well no, I don't. I'm French.)