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the EasiLife Go 150. With cutting heights of 20-50mm, it’s operated with a user-friendly ‘Push & Go’ interface and can be controlled via a fully featured and very clever smartphone app that communicates with the mower via Bluetooth. The compact charging station, only 60cm in width, can be placed anywhere in the garden including corners. Mowing lawns is now said to be


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faster, more efficient, and quieter than ever before thanks to Flymo’s latest EasiLife Go 150 robotic lawnmower. Flymo’s ‘PassageSense’ feature navigates the autonomous lawnmower’s route around the garden with a controlled frequency to ensure it mows every corner, even on lawns with up to 25% slopes. A guide wire system and remote start points guide navigation in a random path around the lawn to give a neat and tidy finish that leaves no trace marks.


Initial setup In order to set up the EasiLife Go 150 and get it ready for mowing you have to place the guide wire around the perimeter of the lawn. There’s plenty of wire supplied, so going around the edge and isolating any obstacles that may be in the mower’s way is no problem. Plastic pegs are also supplied in order to secure the wire and the setup instructions are quite clear about how to successfully locate the wire for best performance and results. The mower has collision sensors built in, but you really need


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compact and straightforward


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use, the smallest robotic lawnmower in Flymo’s range is


ON TEST


FLYMO EASILIFE GO 150


Last year Flymo introduced its smallest ever battery powered robotic lawnmower, the EasiLife Go 150, perfect for smaller lawns of up to 150m2 in size. The new fully automatic robotic lawnmower promises a tidy lawn with zero effort, so the DIY Week team decided to give it a try.


to try and avoid it bumping into too many things in order to minimise potential damage. Another guide wire is also laid from the farthest part of the lawn back to the charging station, so that the EasiLife Go can find its way home when running low on power. The charging station can be located anywhere in the garden that’s flat and accessible by the mower. The instructions suggest placing it somewhere sheltered, but this can be difficult, as it also needs to be near the lawn and mains power at the same time. We put ours right in the corner of the lawn under a tree which provides some protection from the worst of the elements. Once the mower is charged and powered up, you need to


set a


security pin code using the keypad on top of the mower. This is also quite straightforward and then it’s just a matter of connecting your smartphone


to the mower via


Bluetooth in order to set a cutting schedule. There are plenty of options available and they are very easy to create, edit and delete as required. Then it’s just a case of sitting back, relaxing and letting the EasiLife Go robot lawnmower go to work.


In operation


The cutting height of the mower can be adjusted, but we just left it as supplied and the three small rotating blades were able to keep our lawn at a reasonably short length. The Easlife Go is not designed to cut through long grass, but it is very good at maintaining a preferred length of between 20 and 50mm. We cut the grass with a


traditional mower fine cuttings


before installing the EasiLife Go and then set a schedule for it to trim the lawn three times a week, for an hour each time, which was just enough to cover the lawn a couple of times and maintain a healthy length. You can hear the small sharp blades nibbling at the grass as it moves around the lawn and the it produces


mulch down into the lawn easily, which helps to keep it fed and moist, a great idea in the summer. We never really noticed the cuttings at all, which is a far cry from traditional mowing when the grass box needs emptying a couple of times each cut.


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Other features As already mentioned, the accompanying smartphone app allows users to schedule mowing times for their EasiLife Go robotic lawnmower. It gives


users full


access to settings and communicates mower status, next start time, date and time, and battery life. The app also provides helpful on-screen guidance, a blade change reminder and can be used to troubleshoot and access product support.


Equipped with Flymo’s LawnSense


and FrostSense functions, the EasiLife Go 150 will automatically adapt to weather conditions to prevent lawn damage and make it more usable throughout the year.


Adding to Flymo’s growing EasiLife Go range of robotic lawnmowers are new size variations. Gardeners with larger lawns can now opt for the EasiLife Go 200 for lawns up to 200m2, through to the 250, 400 and all the way up to the EasiLife Go 500 for lawns up to 500m2 in size.


The verdict… Robot lawnmowers have improved a lot since they first appeared a few years ago and Flymo has been at the forefront of their development, as you’d expect from one of the leading lawnmower manufacturers. Their latest range of EasiLife Go models are more compact, easy to use and better performing than ever, to the point that they really do offer a set and forget option for keeping your lawn in great condition. The ease of setup and control via the smartphone app will appeal to a wide audience and in our experience having the robot handle the mundane task of keeping the lawn trimmed certainly does make for an easier life.


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