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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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Full local/open source lawnmower? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Anyone have any current recommendations for an open source (or one that works without internet) robot lawnmower?

I've got 1,300m3 of grass around my house and it's been a pain to cut with a push mower.

So far I've only seen:

My issue with the openmower one is that I don't know how to solder and I'm too afraid I'll break some very expensive components, so it would be nice if I could buy something mostly pre-built.

As for repalmaker, I worry not having GPS won't work since my garden is quite large and a robot bouncing around randomly would probably never finish, I also have a separate front and back (there's a path between them) and I'd like the robot to finish one area then, go to the other area by itself.

Anyone seen any other options available?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just because the software is open source doesn't means a product running it is going to be free. Heck, even some FOSS projects have financial contributors who get perks like software support, access to pre-released software, and input into feature development.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

So are there open source lawn mowers then?