[APP][Pro] Worx Landroid, Kress, LandXcape, Ferrex RoboMower integration, OpenMower added

Integration with Homey Pro of Landroid, Kress, Ferrex and LandXcape RoboMowers. Supports most newer Wifi enabled Worx manufactured mowers.

Trigger and condition cards for error and statuscodes, battery info, on/off, at home or not.
Actioncards to turn on/off, mow a specific zone only, set distribution across zones.

Have fun, and if any issue or request for functionality, PM me.

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Hopefully you donā€™t mind @Martin_Verbeek ā€¦

link to the app : Worx and Openmower Mowers App for Homey | Homey

link to the thread some other things were discussed in the past : Integration with Worx Landroid mowers

Iā€™m using flows which :

  • notifies me in case of battery low or high voltage
  • notifies me in case of battery low or high temperature
  • notifies me in case of error (eg. out of wire)
  • you can monitor in the insights voltage, temperature, battery % but even inclination and gradient
  • you can get notified in case your RoboMower is docking for too long (eg. via Countdown, if missed the station - happens sometimes)
  • you can send RoboMower home in case some of your sensor detects rain but RoboMower not yet - or in case you have garage and it was raining, if RoboMower starts mowing, you can send him home right away to prevent damages (eg. in case you have garage)
  • you can detect if the Robomower has been lifted and for example trigger alarm on your camera / security systems

Example of the device :

Thank you @Martin_Verbeek for continuously improving this app and making the device even smarter :wink:

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Hi @Martin_Verbeek apologies for another inquire / idea - I have quite frequent situation when Robomower gets out of wire in certain area (yes, moving wire is an option but I already did that and will be doing againā€¦) but - I was thinking about condition :

  • if inclination / gradient exceeds certain limit then to stop Mower and report this state
  • activate ā€œsafe homingā€ (havenā€™t tried that yet) to try to recover from the situation / or restart robot / stop robot etc. (itā€™s a pity we canā€™t tell mower to start going back :frowning: )

Iā€™m not sure if that will work, as in the Insights I see values get reported in 1min interval so not sure how fast the flow would be triggered (based on my experience it might get max 30sec to get mower trapped) + currently itā€™s not possible to make actions based on inclination nor gradient. What do you think, would that work, is it something worth to implement as well ? (possibly triggers based on inclination/gradient and / or configurable sync intervals)

I live in an almost flat country, so no experience with gradient and inclination. Can you elaborate a bit on these and how it is going to work in your situation?

Thanks Martin. I have been thinking to catch those situation just before when Worx got stuck (see pointed areas) because it went out of the wire on the area, which is on the edge of the area, which has about 25Ā° inclination, as rest of the garden is flat (and yes, I have wire installed in sufficient distance but sometimes it happensā€¦and usually it happens when nobody can recover it - so it gets powered off, which is also bad (because of ā€˜alarmā€™ off etc.). It doesnā€™t happen every day as you can see but even stopping Landroid just when it start getting stuck might help. In such situation I have been thinking to simply force return to home (or safe homing without blades), as this may trigger just another movement with primary intention to follow wire. I donā€™t know if it will work because I donā€™t know the frequency the level (inclination, gradient) gets updated.

So the minimum would be to be able to trigger actions on inclination/gradient above certain value, as this is not possible at this moment.

Naturally that might not be the only use case, when evaluating inclination/gradient - eg. for flat gardens it might indicate it hit something small (you know kidsā€¦), which wasnā€™t supposed to be there etcā€¦

Thanks martin for the amazing app! I have one question: Would it be possible to add the Party Mode action? (on/off)

The reason for asking is that I would like to run the lawnmower on automatic mode (via the landroid app). But because I have a garage, the rain sensor does not work when parked, so i want to use Homey to make him not start until at least 3 hours after the last rain (like the Landroid app functions).

I can use the home function, in combination with timer and boolean to start again after the 3 hours elapses, but toggling party mode would be even easier/nicer (and I dont know how the start signal would function in combination with the restricted working times I have set)

Thanks in advance!

Hi Roland, will check that out.

Martin Verbeek

I have added triggering for this. But doubt if it is going to help in time, the status update for gradient and inclination will trigger when a message arrives from the worx cloud, it might already be too late for preventive actions. But please have a go and see if it is going to work out for you.

I am planning to upload it late today or early tomorrow.

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Exactly but letā€™s seeā€¦thank you very much :wink:

you can check with 3.0.5

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3.0.6 in on store now. Has party mode actions enable/disable and conditional trigger for partymode. UI has Party mode as well for current status.

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Wow thatā€™s fast, thanks!

Ill check it out later today. Just tried installing the new version, but it showed that I updated from version 2.2.0 to 2.2.0 and when i open the app it shows v2.2.0 and the available actions have not changed for me.

The community store does show 3.0.6 though, so ill have to double check it later today (unfortunately dont have the time right at this moment)

In HCS click on the worx icon it will show all versions, select 3.0.6 to install. HCS sometimes shows this behavior.

Martin Verbeek

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Perfect! Thanks alot :slight_smile:

Hi Martin, another feature request :wink:

my mower follows a manual schedule from 8:00-15:00. After charging the battery sometimes it starts with the state ā€œMowingā€ directly. No state message ā€œStart sequenceā€ or ā€œLeaving houseā€ from the mower. I checked this with the activity log of the Deskapp.

I use a logic variable to store the previous ā€œHomeā€ status temporary for 1 sec. before it is overwritten by the actual state. This helps me to detect that the mower is leaving the dock even when the state says ā€œMowingā€.

Maybe it would be nice if your app would store the previous state as a tag temporary.

What do you think?

THX

Will check into it.

Martin Verbeek

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Hi Martin @Martin_Verbeek is it intended, that manual start doesnā€™t work when Worx detected rain ? Eg. even when I donā€™t have enabled ā€œMow when rainingā€, I can still start mowing from the original app via Play button. But when I tried that by pressing a title, it report ā€œCanā€™t start when mower is in error stateā€ - or something like this.
Btw it would be possible to force action regardless of error state, eg. as optional settings. Eg. for those specific cases I mentioned above but I think it will work only for rain stateā€¦

Yes, when alarm is on, the app prevents command execution.

Martin Verbeek

Thank you - thatā€™s behavior I observed :slightly_smiling_face: but - is there any reason for that please, if the original app allows to override it in case of rain?

Was a safeguard, will check for a solution

Martin Verbeek

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