Smart SILENO Life 1250m²

This works great in my garden which is on a hill. It takes longer to install than I anticipated and I recommend buying extra pegs so that the wires are firmly down. I haven't had to cut my grass except the edges (as the edges go to fences) for months now. My grass is also a lot greener!

Mower is great, does everything it’s supposed to, love the product, lawn is looking so much better within a few days, however this is a discontinued model, from 2020, does not have the features of a current one, it requires a firmware update, easy on WiFi and a software update from 2020 which needs an additional cable purchased and a pc windows 10 or Mac 10.1 not helpful if you have neither or take it to a Gardena service agent.

Honestly, don’t waste your money. The robot do whatever he wants, regardless you spend several hours balancing it. It doesn’t work, it will not cover all your area evenly.

Good enough product, but has been discontinued by Gardena and replaced with models that have better capability.

I disliked the small screen on the keypad, the figures are hard to see clearly in bright sunlight or if dirty. The machine is a good climber and goes up banks even with its wheels spinning. The wi fi is good better than any blue tooth.

Just moved house to a place with a much bigger lawn, even when I had a smaller garden I always used to let the grass grow too long between cuts and the thought of lugging the old corded lawnmower out every few days in summer for a few hours filled me with dread, so one of the very first things I bought when I moved in was this robotic greenkeeper, the Gardena 750. Priorities...It does take a fair while to setup properly, at least 3 hours I spent crawling around to lay the boundary and guide wires around and across the garden. A few weeks later and the grass has grown around the cable enough so it's almost invisible.Luckily, I had power right at the end of the garden in a shed so I was able to place the housing right at the far end of the garden and out of sight, its not particularly ugly, but also not something I would want all that visible if I had the choice.Once all the setup is done its been remarkably simple to use, I have the version with the WIFI hub, but still have not had internet installed in the house and it still works fine. Just turn it on and allow it to orientate itself along the guide wire once, it then returned to the charger to get to full charge before happily setting off to mow the garden for the rest of the day.Looking forward to laying back at the weekend with a beer and watching my new robot friend do all the hard lawn work. If only they sold one which could also do the weeding and keep the flower beds looking tidy too....

This is an initial review as a still need to install the lawnmower in my garden - which requires installing a wire just inside the lawn boundary to stop the mower going rogue!Initial inspection did not disappoint, first impressions of a well made product which seems robust. You get all the necessary installation equipment but will need an outdoor power supply - the unit is designed to be continuously plugged in - preferably nearby although you do get quite a long power lead.The instructions are simple to understand and easy to follow. though it does help if when laying the boundary wire it is done after rain when the ground is soft. Making the connections and installing the charging station needs care but presents few problems with a little advanced thought - at least what the instructions suggest! I’ll update this when installation is complete.Key factors which make this mower stand out a bit is Its very quiet operation, automatous operation, and associated app. I’ve played around with the app which is very basic but can, of course, be updated over time by Gardena.So for the moment this looks like a promising product. More to follow and an interim four stars.Update: I’ve now installed the mower in my garden. The lawn is relatively small and I decided to bury the wire under a centimetre of soil to avoid any risk of the mower cutting it - if that happens the mower simply stops until the wire is reconnected. This took a couple, of hours to do. You need to be careful to avoid.

I have had a robot mower before so knew what was likely to be involved in setting this up. The most time consuming part is laying the boundary wire around the perimeter of the area to be mown. The robot will stay within this area. For a garden of 750 sq metres which this mower can handle that is 30m x 25m x 2 so in total 110m of wire to lay. That's a good two/three hours work but only needs to be done once. The unusual thing in this case (unlike other robot mowers I have set up) is that there is a third wire called the guide wire which runs from the control base unit to another point of your choice on the perimeter wire and is connected to it. The mower uses this to get back to base for recharging and also can use it to get to trickier areas. Once all the wiring is in place and connected to the base unit I plugged in and got the solid green light to tell me all was working. Then put the mower on charge.The mower is controlled by a panel underneath a large flap on the top. You set up a security pin and you can then programme the mower from the panel. All very straightforward.It has mown the lawn for the last three days and done an excellent job. It criss crosses the lawn in an apparently random fashion but gets it all done. No stripes though. (The marketing bumph trumpets the absence of stripes as a big advantage.)The mower is really very quiet. Especially when compared to a petrol engined model.The final set up was the Smart Hub and App. Again no problems with installation - connected the hub to my router using an ethernet cable and it then connected automatically to the mower. I was a bit disappointed at the limited functionality in the app. I would have preferred to be able to adjust the schedule of mowing via the app rather having to do so on the mower. All the app seems to do is start the mower or send it home.It is an expensive piece of kit and there are less expensive models in the market place, but this appears to be very well made and I expect it to last well.