X7: AWD Terrain Flagship

This is the most incredible machine. Our lawn always looks amazing. It creates a beautiful pattern, makes almost no noise, and keeps the lawn always at a standard level. It saves us several hours of mowing each week. I strongly recommend this product.

I’m just about to bail on this mower. The mower does not seem to cut the grass as much as it beats it into submission, which is ultimately what I want, is a low grass yard. The tassles that stick up on some different grasses just get stuck around the back/idle wheels, not the powered wheels. Which is good, because it’s not sticking up. My latest issue is its “plan path failed.” This happened only after I discovered that the mower was contacting China and Hong Kong over a hundred times a day. I blocked those connections on my network system, and ever since the plan path has failed multiple times daily. It has not one time since mowed the yard in its entirety. I’m not turning the connections back on. I’m most likely going to sell this very expensive yard matting device on FB marketplace, because it’s too long out for me to return it. If you don’t mind those connections, the machine does just fine keeping the grass low, it mows approximately 0.1 acre of my yard and does fine when it actually mows. Installation was easy enough. Traction in the yard is fine, and it identifies areas where it gets stuck so you can remedy the issue at your convenience.

I will say the mower itself is fantastic. It is worth trying. It climbs slopes like a champ! The little grooves on the back combs the grass as it mows. I found that really neat and unexpected. I did have some challenges with getting a signal. It seems that it depends on the time of day for it to get a clear signal or not. I'm assuming this is due to me not mounting this on my roof. I reached out to customer service because of this and they were amazing! Best customer service I've run into in awhile and you can tell they truly care about their customers and their product. They even offered to send someone out to help get me going! Who does that these days? The app/software is a bit of a challenge. However, once you set it up, it's done. :) The good: - Super quiet - Cool looking - Makes a nice lawn tracks - Eats slopes for breakfast - Navigates obstacles well. - Amazing Customer Service. The not-so-good: -Signal drops. I didn't mount it on the roof, so perhaps that is why? I live in an HOA, so this wasn't an option for me. -The setup isn't as intuitive as I hoped. - You have to move your sprinklers daily. Not a flaw in the product, just a fact I had not considered. I have new sod and have to water daily. Again, the machine itself is nice and worth trying. I ended up returning it because of the connection & issue before Amazon's return policy ran out. I will purchase again from this company in the future based on their amazing customer service and such a promising product. I will likely need to go for their wired one due to my location and HOA and I wouldn't hesitate based on how cool this machine is.

I don’t normally replace big yard equipment often, so buying a robot mower was already a big decision. The first one I purchased — a mid-range model from another brand — was such a disappointment that I ended up returning it. It got stuck constantly, struggled on my slopes, and lost signal in the same spots every week. After that experience, I honestly didn’t want to go through another setup. But the X7 has been a completely different story. What convinced me to keep it is simply that it works where the previous mower failed. My yard has two sloped sections and a few tight passages, and the X7 climbs them without hesitation. I watched it handle an off-angle slope that my last mower wouldn’t even attempt without slipping. Its ability to recover from tricky spots is also much better — no more daily rescue walks for me. The satellite navigation has been surprisingly stable too. I expected the same GPS dropouts I dealt with before, but the X7 stays locked in and maintains a consistent mowing pattern. Considering robot mowers aren’t something you buy often, I’m relieved this one actually lives up to what it promises. For the first time, I feel like I can just let it run and not think about it.

I'm a bit mixed on this mower. Using a landroid for the last 2 years on a hilly, shady 1/2 acre lot. The biggest issue is a curb at the bottom of a hill. This mower does handle the curb better than the landdroid, but I still can't let it just run when I'm away as it occasionally ends up in the road. Unlike the landroid, the plastic is taking a beating every time it falls off of the curb. This mower also seems to pick certain places in the yard and refuse to cut them. It just avoids these areas no matter what settings I make on the app. 4 months in and I'm having to send the unit in for service as it has an error that will not clear. Support has been very responsive on this issue and I do expect a full resolution, unfortunately I'll have to have my yard cut during this. Support seems to be very helpful

The tiny mowing blades look deceptively inadequate, but after letting this little workhorse loose on my yard for the past week, my lawn looks as if I mowed it with my regular push mower. Setup was quite simple, but I had to find a good spot to place the antenna array so it had clear line of sight to the GPS satellite. Once you map out your yard, the mower stays within the area without needing to setup boundary strips, unlike some of the cheaper robot mowers.

unable to navigate my grass. It gets stuck in the deep grass and reports a navigation failure. Unable to complete any mowing job in my yard. 0 degree elevation change. This is simply a grass is too deep for the machine to handle. It triggers the front bumper as an "obstacle" that it then needs to try and navigate around and the robot just wanders for an hour before it gives up completely and I need to pick it up and take it to the base station. I cut the grass extra low to over come this limitation and the robot still can not handle 2 days growth without erroring. For a $2500 investment, this is disappointing.

It will work for Orion X7, but you will have to contact sunseeker and have them send a "QR Code" sticker. This replaces the mounted Code that sits on top, which is too tall for the garage. It assists in the robot parking in the charging station. After the sticker is installed, the garage works great!