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And lo was great devastation sent unto the land.
#ev
#mower

Bucolic scene. Previously long, clumpy thick grass and mint is freshly mown, mulched and scattered hither and thither. Small trees dotted around amongst the pastoral carnage

Kali the electric ride-on responsible for said devastation sat in the workshop, hood-up revealing their electric conversion and also chunks of wet grass clippings

More snow. I'm looking at winter attachment builds for the mower.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmCYMVjXh5I

Coroner issues warning after girl, 7, run over by mower in Hawke’s Bay farm accident

His report comes with a warning to the rural community “of the dangers young children face while accompanying…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #7 #accident #after #bay #by #Coroner #farm #girl #hawkes #in #Issues #mower #NewZealand #NZ #over #run #warning
https://www.newsbeep.com/299337/

Honda’s robot lawnmower needs you to train it before it works alone. #Honda #Lawnmower #Mower #Robotics

https://gadgetbond.com/honda-prozision-autonomous-lawnmower/

@waldoj

The main reason that you can’t actually get the #chickens to push the #mower for themselves is that they make wobbly random patterns all over your #lawn and leave bits unmowed.

Don’t trust the chickens

Our old mower is all sorted now. Cleaned, new spark plug, engine oil, gearbox oil, new blade, blade adapter, drive belt and a few missing screws and bolts replaced.

Was going to give it to #Schwiemu for the price of the spare parts, because I know she wouldn't take it for free.

But meanwhile she already bought a brand new one for silly money. And no, not the ride-on one I recommended either. Some people are difficult to help 🤷

Oh well. Anyone need a freshly refurbished mower with driven wheels and collector box?

#Mower #Repair #DIY #ForSale

Mower spare parts in paper wrapping. There's a long black blade, a plastic bag with blade adapter and key and a drive belt, this time of the right length.

The overhauled petrol mower in grey and yellow. It's got a yellow handle and two control bars, one for the engine and one for the gearbox. There's a pull start handle sticking out of the engine cover. A grey grass collector box is attached to the back. It has plastic wheels, the rear ones are powered.

#Gardening : compost is good. Particularly when we learn that the collections of some classes by privatised services ( eg Thames Water) are poisoned by adding toxic collections to clean ones, and then returned to farmland, one might keep it at home.

So, a heap.
Munch it up with the lawnmower to avoid a painful back later and speed composting.

#heap #mower #compost #PotatoPlants #photography

#Gardening : compost is good. Particularly when we learn that the collections of some classes by privatised services ( eg Thames Water) are poisoned by adding toxic collections to clean ones, and then returned to farmland, one might keep it at home.

So, a heap.
Munch it up with the lawnmower to avoid a painful back later and speed composting.

#heap #mower #compost #PotatoPlants #photography

A heap of chopped up vegetation, in front is a plank, behind is a brick wall. Within it are wriggly things, some have legs, but we can't see those either. It is a compost heap.

Who needs a service pit when you have a milk can and a log to lever the mower onto the can with 🙀

Some clever stick had poked itself into the bottom of the mower just right to derail the deck belt from its pulleys.

Quickly fixed, once I'd improvised this very safe lifting solution.

#DIY #Repair #Mower #LawnMower #Homestead

A ride-on mower is sitting in weird low angle sunlight. Its front bumper is lifted onto an aluminium milk can, front wheels dangling in the air. A tough old log lays next to the milk can. The mowing deck is now in the air, allowing access to the belt that is dangling out of place on it.

**Severe weather alerts and automations in Home Assistant**

(link to blog)

Yesterday we had a severe thunderstorm with strong wind gusts, hail and torrential rains in my area.

The storm developed quickly.

While I was observing the falling hail, I saw the mower still mowing. Because of the fast storm development, it didn’t have time to detect rain and return to the docking station.

Nevertheless, we had luck, the hail was small and wet and only partially destroyed some cucumber leaves. Roof, panels and mower are intact. Nearby villages didn’t have that luck, the hail there was egg-sized.

Severe weather alerts in Home Assistant

I started thinking it would be nice if Home Assistant informed me somehow the weather will be severe in my area.

I found an integration(s) and HACSs add-ons that reports severe weather and can be used to trigger some events in HA:

Meteo alarm

Meteo Alarm is a binary sensor that can be added to Home Assistant. It provides weather alerts for EU and UK. Unfortunately, only manual setup is possible. So I edited configuration.yaml and added the following code:

binary_sensor:  - platform: meteoalarm    country: "slovenia"    province: "North-East"

Where did I found country and province?

Finding ‘Country’ attribute was easy. Went to Meteo Alarm RSS feeds and searched for Slovenia feed URL: https://feeds.meteoalarm.org/feeds/meteoalarm-legacy-rss-slovenia. I copied the last part: ‘slovenia’.

What about the ‘province’ attribute? I found it in RSS feed. I opened the feed and searched for region names. I found it in <title> tag, after ‘Slovenia / xxxx’

After HA restart, there is a new entity available:

The meteoalarm entity switches the states from ‘unsafe’ to ‘safe’. Great, now I can create an automation that reacts to the state change.

But firstly, I need to show it on my dashboard.

I found another HA add-on in HACS: Meteoalarm Card (by MrBartusek on GitHub) which is compatible with MeteoAlarm (and other weather alert services) entity:

I installed it directly from HACS addon.

Adding this card to HA dashboard is easy: Just add new card and search for Meteoalarm Card. The configuration seems very simple:

I like the option ‘Hide when there are no warnings’. My main dashboard now shows the card only when it is weather alert.

Weather alert automations

For now, I came up with three automations (which was the main reason I added MeteoAlarm to my HA):

Mower should return to docking station immediately when weather alarm is detected. Moreover, it should stay on the docking station and ignore mowing schedules (‘party mode’).

With everything in place, creating automation was easy:

And when the alarm is over, the party mode is off and normal mowing schedues are active again:

The next automation is pushing notifying my and my wife’s phones. This one is pretty obvious, so I’ll skip the description.

TL;DR

As I found out, HA can be used to avoid the damages, protect the property, reduce costs. That’s what I like in HA: I add automations and add-ons when it’s necessary.

Is it useful? I can not protect the garden, roof and other major things with it, but at least I can protect little things. And play with what the technology currently allows.

Thanks to all developers of this nice add-ons. At the end, everything works at it should.

The configuration of HA’s Meteo Alarm integration is not very straight-forward. It would be better if there was an UI to add and configure it. Especially selecting the country and the region. It’s clunky to search for regions in some RSS streams and then to manually add it to configuration.yaml.

https://blog.rozman.info/severe-weather-alerts-and-automations-in-home-assistant/

#alert #homeassistant #landroid #meteoalarm #mower #weather #worx

Meteoalarm history graph, changing from unsafe to safe

#EAS #WEA for Dodge, #MN; #Mower, #MN; #Olmsted, #MN: National Weather Service: #TORNADO WARNING in this area until 2:45 PM CDT. Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris. Check media. Source: NWS La Crosse WI ** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

#EAS #WEA for Fillmore, #MN; #Mower, #MN: National Weather Service: #TORNADO WARNING in this area until 4:15 PM CDT. Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris. Check media. Source: NWS La Crosse WI ** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

Rasenmähroboter ohne Begrenzungsdraht frisst Begrenzungsdraht vom Vorgänger #garden #mower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1FAhYc4I10

O.I.L. Warfilth Aspects of Death Chatter

Live Wire Lounge, Tuesday, July 15 at 07:00 PM CDT

A mixed genre bill featuring Pittsburgh’s O.I.L. playing downtuned rust belt sludge, local crust veterans Warfilth, neocrust upstarts Aspects of Death, and the debut of (checks notes) blastbeat crossover surf project CHATTER

https://chicago.askapunk.net/event/oil-warfilth-aspects-of-death-chatter

I’m fillming a series about robotic mower .
Oops
#mower #robotics

We have quite a small lawn, but I’m sorely tempted to get the YardForce MB400 robotic mower that’s £200 from Aldi to keep it trimmed and improve it’s growing (once I’ve got looking better again). But can I convince the kids not to leave their crap all over it… hmmm! #lawn #gardening #mower

Old picture of the garden, cat for scale. There is the end of a green slide on the right, bushes at the back and the edge of decking in foreground.

We have a huge garden. Not complaining. I love it. The first mow of the season. The grass was very long, should have been cut sooner - it’s a long story, not enough space to explain here. Mower conked out. Managed to blow a circuit, but emerged with fingers and toes intact.

#Gardening #Flowers #Mower #Garden #Grass