Product Library / Outdoor, Lawn & Irrigation

Protocols: BLUETOOTH · CELLULAR^{[1][3][6][8][10][14][15]}

Plans and ongoing costs^[3][15]

✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.

Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.

The clearest subscription answer in this category, and Husqvarna states it first-party in its own support article rather than leaving it to be inferred: 'The Automower® Connect service is free', 'There are no running costs associated with using Automower® Connect', and 'You do not have to sign up for a separate contract with the cellular network operator.' The SIM in the mower is Husqvarna's, and the article states it 'gives your mower free connectivity for 10 years' with all data traffic included — qualified by Husqvarna itself on two conditions, that Automower Connect still supports the mobile network technology in your market for the whole period and that a network operator still serves your area. Recorded as a positive 'none' because the vendor makes the claim in writing, with the ten-year horizon recorded as the vendor's stated term rather than as a guarantee this catalogue can enforce. What happens in year eleven is not published anywhere, and nobody should assume it is free forever.

Maintenance and offline use^[1]

• Batteries: Li-Ion, 8 Ah (integrated, not user-replaceable)
• Works without the internet: Inconclusive — we read the vendor's own material and it does not answer this either way. It does not mean the product fails without the internet.
• Husqvarna publishes a typical mow time of 145 minutes on one charge against a typical charging time of 45 minutes, a lawn capacity of 0.9 acre ±20%, and a 60 dB(A) perceived sound level. The consumable is blades — the cutting system is three pivoting razor blades, and the Home Assistant integration exposes a 'reset blade usage' button, which tells you the vendor expects them replaced on a schedule. The install is the real effort: this is a boundary-wire mower, so the setup is laying and pegging a perimeter wire around the lawn and any beds you want excluded, which is why it is recorded as diy-tools rather than diy-simple even though the mower itself needs no wiring.
• Security updates: No security-update support date is on record for this model yet. We haven't yet checked whether Husqvarna publishes one, so this is a gap in our research — not a statement about the manufacturer.

The catch

Start with the thing Husqvarna does better than anyone else in this category: it tells you what does not work. Its own smart-home page states that you can control an Automower 'with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, but not with Siri.' No other manufacturer in this launch set answers the Apple question at all, and none of them can — no robot mower of any brand can speak Matter, because the standard has no robotic-mower device type through Matter 1.6. If you run an Apple household, this is a phone-app product and nothing more. Second, the money. Automower Connect is free — Husqvarna says so in writing, along with 'There are no running costs' and 'You do not have to sign up for a separate contract with the cellular network operator' — and the SIM in the mower carries ten years of included data. In a category where the two other cellular mowers charge for the equivalent, Husqvarna charges nothing, with the honest caveat that Husqvarna qualifies the ten years on network availability and says nothing about what happens afterwards. Third, there is now a published price and it is $2,999.99, which is new — Husqvarna's own page carried no figure at all until recently. It is a suggested price, itemised down to the six spare blades and the 33 feet of low-voltage cable in the box, and two things are named as not included: the loop wire and the stakes. There is still no cart on the page, only a dealer store locator, so the suggested figure and what a dealer charges you are not the same number. Budget for installation too: this is a boundary-wire mower, and someone has to lay that wire around 0.9 acre of lawn. Fourth, the integrations are lopsided in an unusual direction. The voice assistants are confirmed but undocumented — Husqvarna never publishes what you can actually say — while Home Assistant gets an official integration deep enough to set cutting height, track the mower's position and switch work areas. The open-source community has better documentation of this product than the company does. Finally, one thing worth knowing before you compare models: Home Assistant's own docs note that stay-out zones are unsupported on mowers using Husqvarna's EPOS satellite system, which this one does not use — it navigates by physical boundary wire. Two very different Husqvarna architectures share the Automower name.

Who it's for

The right mower for an Alexa or Google household that wants no ongoing bill and does not mind laying a boundary wire — the AWD chassis and 70% in-lawn slope rating are aimed at ground that defeats ordinary robot mowers, and the free ten-year cellular connection means the app works from anywhere without your Wi-Fi reaching the far end of the garden. It is a good fit for a Home Assistant user: an official integration with cutting height, work areas, position tracking and schedule control is not something the other mowers here offer, provided you accept it runs through Husqvarna's cloud. It is the wrong product for an Apple household, and Husqvarna says so itself rather than making you find out. Think twice if a suggested price is not enough certainty, because there is no checkout on Husqvarna's page and the dealer sets the figure you actually pay; if wire-free setup is the reason you are buying a robot mower at all, since this is a boundary-wire machine; or if you want voice control to do something specific, because what the assistants can actually do is documented nowhere.

Sources & method

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