The tears, a nightmare to install? My mother did the test alone

Ah, summer! His barbecues, his idle days and her endless mowing … To help my mother and relieve her worn knee, I offer her a new friend: a robot-roting. Immediately, reluctance: “Oh I don’t know how to make this work ”. To prove it the opposite, because it is not more stupid than another, and because the manufacturers have made a lot of progress, I order the Dreame A2. The deal: it installs it alone.

Obviously, my choice turns to a model known to be very simple to install – do not complicate things voluntarily. Indeed, some team robots require the installation of a peripheral cable to delimit the zone to mow, when others are delivered with an RTK antenna. But more recently, some manufacturers have released models with a LIDAR sensor, like vacuum cleaners: the device is then on the ground, once its cartography has been carried out. Among the market references, we find the Dreame A2.

Installation: more fear than harm

D -day arrives. The Mastoc package too. First contact with the newcomer: the quick start guide provided by Dreame. If it may seem only a detail, it demystifies the installation of the robot-tee-to-land. “” “Ah yes, it’s well summarized, but there are things to do. ” Well, everything is not won.

First step: find a location. “” “Install The Charging Station, Yes of Race”, She reads in your most beautiful English with an accent little or not worked. Fortunately for the two of us, everything is translated into French…

I see my mother scrutinizing the horizon, without real idea of the ideal place for the Dreame: on the lawn, next to it, not far from a power outlet, on the first plot of land, but which is not the main area. The minutes pass and it remains perplexed. “” “It is surely this most complicated step“, She defends herself. Only time will tell us. We are peeling the manual, well detailed.”Why didn’t we read it before?”You have to install the robot on the lawn edge and on a flexible land to be able to screw the load station.

It’s good, the robot will be next to the clothes wire, the power cable is large enough. To fix the station base, eight large plastic screws are provided. The task is within everyone’s reach, but the last centimeters require a tool, which Dreame does not provide. Damage.

Either. It’s good, the robot is in charge.

Become familiar with the application

It installs the Dreamehome application. I feel that things may get complicated. “” “It’s not easy anyway. You will connect it to the Internet you.”It was not the dealSorry. The glasses on the nose, it follows the instructions of the application. Scan the QR Code of the robot, connect it to Wi-Fi and that’s all finally.

It is then necessary to determine a secret code directly on the mower. Everything is indicated and the Dreame A2 control panel is very understandable. We continue. You have to map the terrain.

The exercise is similar to a remote -controlled car game. We pivot the phone, a joystick appears and we have to go around the lawn in the robot, manually. It is surely the most delicate step, since you have to be comfortable with the joystick and follow the borders to 10 cm. “” “Come on, move mom. – I’m trying, but he doesn’t want to!”. Patience and time length…

The main land is demarcated! But the operation must be repeated with the areas separated by a small path or a border. The Dreame A2 then puts the patience of my sweet mom to the test. “” “Well, I don’t understand. I have to create a new area, but I don’t understand where to place the robot.”Above all, that after the new area created, you have to add a path. The disinterest of the matriarch for applications, the phone and tech in general push it to entrust the task to me. In short, I intervene, because the terrain does not have a easiest configuration.

Once the cartography is finalized, you have to familiarize yourself with the app. Modes of mowing, height, programs: everything seems accessible. Another feature saves points in the robot: garden surveillance in real time. Patrols can be configured, as well as alerts when the Dreame detects a human presence. It is also possible to see what is going on in the garden through the front camera, and even to speak live. Very useful to reassure the good mother and try to keep the curious away.

An efficient and reassuring robot for beginners

Finally, the installation of the Dreame A2 was finalized in 3 hours. It is obviously a long time to familiarize yourself with a new device and it is normal: the robot is imposing and full of new technologies. When the presentations are made, the installation is fluid and guided, in particular thanks to a complete application.

People very little used to handling a phone can lose patience at the time of cartography, but with patience or a little help, the stage is far from insurmountable. Above all, it should only be carried out once for installation – normally. In any case, the robots with a LIDAR remain by far the models most accessible to all.

“” “What a joy to see him mowed in silence. I have never had such a beautiful lawn. Go my coconut, move forward!»

I believe that Dreame A2 will quickly be part of the family.