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Homeowners, is the idea of never mowing your lawn again enticing? If so, stay tuned because I’m testing out the Husqvarna Automower 415X, the Roomba for your yard. In this hands-on review I’ll look at what it’s like to install since I did it myself, what it’s like to set up and use and how effective the overall mowing is, plus some of the special features that make it more than just a barber for your lawn. Plus I’ll talk about how you keep it from getting stolen.

Husqvarna Automower review

The Husqvarna Automower isn’t just a lawn mower and it doesn’t cut grass in the way you think it might. It’s a battery powered grass trimmer and mulcher that snips small bits off your grass daily, and continuously alternates between mowing and charging.

It moves across your yard randomly, not in nice neat rows, which Husqvarna says better manages wear on your lawn.

The 415X model navigates your yard using a hybrid system; you need to lay boundary wires to contain it, but it also get support from satellite localization. More on this is coming up.
In particular, Husqvarna Automower 415X is a model suited for small to medium sized lawns up to 0.4 acres, and it can cut about 678 square feet per hour.

There’s also some installation considerations that might not make this roving lawn bot ideal for all situations, so let’s dig in.

Create Work Areas and custom schedules

With the Automower technology you’re able to use the app to create work areas with different cuttings heights and schedules, or stay-out zones for more case-specific zone control.

Only after your Virtual Map has been created you can create different work zones in your yard. You will add these when you are in the map on Husqvarna App under “Map Objects” which is a pull-up tab at the bottom of the screen.

Choose the plus symbol to add a "object" and you'll essentially draw a boundary around that part of your lawn, using the app. You'll name it, and then you can schedule mowing for whenever you want. I was able to create two different work areas for my home; the front lawn and the back lawn. I opted to schedule the back lawn to be cut overnight when we weren't using it, and the front lawn during the daytime when we could keep an eye on the mower.

Send mower to a specific spot in the yard

If you want to send the mower to a specific spot in your lawn, on the home screen you can press the “Play” button, “Select Work Area”, and send the mower to this area of your yard.

In short, the mapping and direction features worked extraordinarily well and it was easy to program and use.

Cutting ability

The Automower ideally needs to run for several hours each day to keep your lawn short. The good news is it’s absolutely silent, so it’s actually optimal to run it all night.

Because the Automower is cutting tiny bits of your lawn daily and essentially mulching it into the lawn, there’s no raking or cleanup needed. It uses three small blades underneath the bot attached to a flywheel.

I cut the lawn right before the install and found it was adept at keeping the lawn at that trim level right from the get-go.

Your overall cutting height can also be adjusted in the app.

Sensors in the Automower 415X flag when it is approaching the boundary wire to keep it in your yard at all times. The front of the bot always passes the boundary wire by a small distance before it turns around.

Dealing with obstructions

When the product hits an obstacle or approaches the boundary wire the 415X selects a new direction.

The mower doesn’t really have obstacle sensors and it will bump itself off everything from trees to fence posts and then redirect itself. It’s actually kind of dumb or blind that way, but while it may seem bumbling, it’s surprisingly efficient at getting the overall job done.

Edging needed

You will need to keep maintaining the edges of your lawn; the mower can only get so close to the edges of your yard, so trimming and edging is always going to be needed. I can say however that the few minutes each week of trimming the yard is still a lot less laborious than cutting everything with our gas-powered push mower.

Charging & runtime

Once drained of most of its battery the Automower 415X will automatically head back to base to recharge. A full charge of its’ 2 amp hour battery takes about 60 minutes. It will then resume its job. When it was cutting my lawn it would cut for about 45 minutes to an hour or so, then recharge, doing this on and off all day.

It takes about an hour or so to get back enough juice to resume its work.