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We've been putting a massive amount of planning and work into turning the house behind me

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into the tech house of dreams for our hypothetical guy, Guy.

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But today is not about Guy, it's about me.

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With the interior looking like this right now, it's gonna be our main focus, at least until the fall.

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So I need some kind of low maintenance or ideally zero maintenance solution

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to handle some of the exterior grooming. That is where Memotion comes in.

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They sponsored this video and sent over their Luba three,

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giving us the idea of setting up a completely automated start to finish solution.

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I'm talking, the garage door opens on its own, the lawn mower goes out, does its thing, goes back in,

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it closes back up, nobody touches it.

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Can we pull this off? Sure hope so. Our goal is to set up a home automation system

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that in tune with our mowing schedule is gonna open up the garage so the Luba three

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can make its way out, maintain the lawn and then once it's finished, come inside,

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after which the garage will automatically close. Sounds simple enough, but our 40 year old garage door opener

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isn't exactly smart home ready. So that's our first task and I'm gonna accomplish that

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with some help from one of our new writers, Michael, who brought our home assistant setup for this automation.

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I also brought my Tailwind IQ three, which is gonna control our dumb garage door opener.

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Realistically, we could have used a simpler relay like you set up at your house.

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But IQ three includes a door sensor, isn't ridiculously expensive,

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and it has a good reputation for low latency and higher liability.

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Hopefully it also has a reputation for being simple because garage doors are one of those home improvement

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things that I just pay a pro to do.

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So step one is we're gonna mount one side

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of the door sensor right here. It's got this kind of cute little like ratcheting thing

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that you put in as much as you can. And then, oh wow, that's actually on there pretty good.

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And we just tighten with a wrench and wow,

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that is not going anywhere. Now we gotta do the other side.

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What's the best way to close this now? We're gonna need power.

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Yeah, I plugged it in. Well, there's no power in the house. Right, right, right, right, right. The whole panel's disconnected.

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You know what, no, probably easier to just do this and then just close it.

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There we go. Oh boy. No, no, keep going, keep going.

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This is the moment when we find out. Hey, I did. I put it somewhere where there's not gonna be

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something in the way. Nice. We missed some stuff on the checklist

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of things we need for this. So we don't have our alcohol or rags, but.

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Hand sanitizer and the inside of your shirt will do in a pinch.

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Now, in a perfect world, I would actually probably screw this in,

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but I think our plan in the longer term is actually to make this the workshop side of the garage

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and have the other side be the car side. So this is a permanentary temperance install.

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So I'm gonna use the double-sided tape. The alignment on this doesn't need to be crazy close,

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but it does need to be pretty close. Right around there.

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Should do just nicely. The polarity doesn't matter for these wires.

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So all we gotta do is twist them together, cap them off either with a marette or a crimp

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or whatever works for you. They're not high-voltage wires.

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Then the kit includes a nice little variety of cable management clips to get this back up to the opener.

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Man, did I just say that these clips were really handy because I take it back.

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I could clean that spot off perfect and stuck it, this adhesive sucks.

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Going for the zip ties. This is pretty DIY friendly.

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Obviously you could put more time into the cable management if you really wanted to,

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but that took me about seven minutes

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and I'd say it's acceptable. Now all we've gotta do is strip two of these ends

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and then we're gonna put them into our tailwind hub here into door one sensor and then common.

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So that's just the ground right next to it. Then to connect this to the garage door opener,

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we flip around to the other side and we take this little included pigtail

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and we plug into garage door one dry contact.

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And then this goes into the back where the dry contact switch would normally be activated.

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Now all that's left is plugging into power and syncing up the app.

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All right, thank you, sir. We do not have power here at the house,

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but we do have a jackery. So this should work.

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Hey, look at it go. Okay, big moment.

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All right, that's good. That's the warning, sophisticated.

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Nice. Now on our side, you can see closed.

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Now we click it again, opening and open.

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And it gets that from the sensor data. Okay. Now we just have to start setting up the lawn mower.

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You know, depending how things go, we may end up keeping the tailwind as part of the final installation for GE.

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It supports all kinds of automations, including things like opening up the garage door automatically

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when you turn onto your street. In fact, I'd even be pretty interested in something like that.

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But for now, let's take a closer look at the Luba 3.

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Which should have even less assembly than last time.

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Now that there's no RTK antenna or extra wires required on the outside.

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For the base station, the idea is to have it near-ish the door,

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leaving enough space around it for obstacle avoidance. And then obviously having it close enough to our jackery

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that it's going to be able to charge up our Luba. Did I say jackery?

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Sorry, I meant two of these Blue Yeti AC300s.

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Because we're going to leave this unattended for long periods of time,

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and we want to be able to handle the 210 watt fast charging for the Luba.

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This is going to give us plenty of capacity for that. Now let's have a look at the mower itself.

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This is the 5000H model, and the H indicates that the blade has a higher range

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for the blade height for maintaining a longer length if you're into that sort of thing.

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And wow, they really have cut down

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on the assembly for this thing. Basically all we got to do is plug in this front spring-loaded pressure bar,

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and eh. That way it's going to know

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if it accidentally runs into anything. Then on the bottom, we screw on these safety bumpers.

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As you can see, this unit isn't exactly clean.

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That's because we've already done some validation to make sure that it's going to be suitable for our use case.

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It's more than suitable. It's actually kind of overkill. This thing is rated to do like,

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I think a 5,400 square foot lawn or something like that between charges.

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Ours is a fair bit smaller than that. But that doesn't mean

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that we can't use some of its more advanced features. And a big one is its ability to very accurately

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map out your lawn, go about its business, and return to home base.

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Two more things. We've got to put this little key in the back or it will not do anything.

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And then I actually forgot to tighten on the bumper.

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There we go. Let's throw it on the base station now.

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Excellent. Hey, charging indicator already, just like that. Now the rest of the setup is going to be through the app.

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Once you add lawnmower in the app, it should automatically detect a lawnmower

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through Bluetooth, boop. And I helped.

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Now the RTK reference station, we don't need that anymore because every single emotion unit

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comes bundled with a 4G SIM card and free service.

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It should just work throughout Europe and North America. And that's just for positioning, correct?

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It's just for positioning. Cool. So now you don't need any exterior RTK sensors

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and you can just rely on its own SIM card, Bluetooth, and your Wi-Fi connectivity.

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Now that that's detected, the next thing we have to do is make sure that it is using that iNavi service.

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So we're going to go over to our RTK settings. Our signal is good.

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For positioning mode, we're going to click on that and hit iNavi net RTK.

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And now it should just have net RTK setup. Okay.

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Now we have to set up our map, but first we need to open up the garage.

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Oh, right. Which we can do with our home assistant automation.

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Huzzah! Now to create a map. No toys, wires, branches, sticks, et cetera.

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No problem. Start mapping.

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I think I'm going to do manual mapping. Just things are a little cluttered right now.

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All right. We select go to lawn,

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forward, lift.

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I'm going to try to do this as much like I would want it to do as possible.

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Don't mind me. I'm just taking my lawnmower for a walk.

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In case of mistakes, hold the joystick reverse button. Robot will reverse along its previous route.

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Oh, cute. Okay. In, in, in, in, in, in it. It's worth noting that you don't have to draw

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the most perfect outline in the world. I'm just being a bit of a perfectionist right now.

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And we're back to the start. My lawn has been mapped successfully.

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Now it is worth noting that I was obviously taking it for a walk,

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but as I was doing that, it was using LiDAR and computer vision

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in order to make a 3D map of the space. So theoretically, I can add another lawn,

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but we're not actually planning to upkeep the back because we don't care about that.

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So we're just going to do the front. So then I'm good to go. Start mowing, right?

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Not quite. Before we do that, I just want to go over here to create,

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and I'm going to create a no-go zone because the last thing I want

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is this thing trying to mow these.

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That probably wouldn't go too well for the blades.

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Mapping successful. Nice. With the grass this high and this thick in some places,

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we don't want to try to go super short. So that's why we're having that really nice range

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for the mowing height. It's going to come in handy for us. I'm thinking maybe we go for like eight centimeters.

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Just give it a little trim. You know what I'm saying?

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And start. Here it goes.

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You can really see with how our neighbor obviously takes care of his place

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that it was important for this to not look like this all the time.

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Look at her go bud. She's ripping bud.

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You know, tracking the progress here. Like it's fricking accurate, hey?

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Like it's really going exactly where I told it

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for better or for worse. With the lawn mapped and the mower back in its dock,

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all that's left is setting up our home assistant automation. Right now we're going to trigger the automation manually,

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but once we can see that the mower can consistently do its job, then we'll set a schedule.

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We're going to have our first event happen in parallel with the mower being sent out to mow

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and the garage door opening up. Once the mower has reached the lawn,

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the garage door will be triggered to close. And once it has a progress of at least 95%

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or a state of returning back to the dock, then the garage will open back up

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waiting for the mower's return. Once the mower is back in its base station,

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the garage door will close and that'll be the end of the automation. So in theory, no one should have to touch it.

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And now the rest is just going to be up to Linus. I gotta say, it's pretty cool seeing it power through

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some of those really thick patches. You might have noticed we don't have any slopes on our lawn,

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but the Luba can also use that power with its four independently driven motors

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to handle just about any terrain, including slopes up to 38 degrees or an 80% grade.

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Now the only question is, will our automations run without manual intervention?

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And if this trail cam footage is anything to go by,

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the answer is yes, but what's this?

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On day three, we added a couple of obstacles to the lawn to see how Mamosan's AI obstacle avoidance handles them.

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Will it, won't it, will it?

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Success! Mamosan's detection can pick up over 300 different common lawn obstacles.

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And if one of your concerns is things that are alive on your lawn,

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they've got a night mode that's designed to detect animals like hedgehogs to hopefully,

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help save them from a very uncomfortable fate. Also, you can just avoid running your Luba at night.

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With everything automated to the point where I can completely ignore it,

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all we've got to do is adjust our schedule. I think once a week should be enough.

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Might actually want to adjust the mower height as well. That first cut did not bring it short enough.

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Good call. Dropping the blade to the lowest setting might have been a bit aggressive,

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but we tackled the full 95 square meter lawn in under 40 minutes.

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And with our schedule dialed in, our setup is looking set and forget for the rest of the summer.

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Massive thanks to our sponsor Memotion. You guys can check out the Luba 3

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at the link in the video description. Don't judge the job behind me too much yet.

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It's not even finished its first run. I just shot this outro on the first day.