SUNSEEKER X7 Wireless Robot Lawn Mower 0.75 Acre/ 32,000Sq. Ft, with Smart APP Control, Vision AI System & RTK, Path Planning, Adaptive Floating Cut Height up to 4", for Medium to Large Yards

The media could not be loaded. Hi everyone! I've seen several posts about the lack of real info/noise around the Orion X7 line, and as I recently received mine I thought I'd leave a little review for everyone, specifically for the Orion X7 Plus. This is going to get a bit lengthy, so if you want to skip the bulk of this, I’ve got a tl;dr at the end. Also, feel free to ask me any questions and I’ll do my best to answer them!Before jumping in, 2 important disclaimers. First, I am NOT sponsored/affiliated/loyal/etc to/with Sunseeke/Orion. I paid full price for this, I'm not a content creator, and I don't intend to have any benefit from this whatsoever.Second, I AM A ROBOT LAWNMOWER NOOB. We're a big smart home household (lights, locks, shades, computers, a Dreame X30 I couldn't more highly recommend, and more), but this is my first robot lawnmower. I'm not an expert, and I don't have prior experience, so any ease or difficulty is from the perspective of an active smart home user who considers himself relatively tech-savvy, but has no robot lawnmower experience whatsoever.A bit of context about my setup, I have about an acre of lawn to mow, and it is shaped fairly funky. I'll attach a picture of the map in the comments for your reference. There are several slopes, but none too steep. That said, there are multiple areas where the edge of my lawn drops off a precipitous cliff that the mower certainly would not handle, and would likely fall off. I have a 2 story home with a 5' tall attic (this is important for later) and I have a lawn that is pretty open, but all edges are lines with very tall trees (we're in the middle of the woods). I also have 12 tripod sprinklers currently standing in the lawn because we are trying to establish grass. The house is surrounded by a couple feet of gravel on all sides.Okay, far too much context there, but I want you to have the details. Let's jump in.The Orion X7 Plus has been AMAZING!!! I took my sweet time doing the setup. After unboxing and installing a few pieces (like the cellular anti-theft device it came with), I placed the charging station just under my deck at the back of the house. This put it on the gravel around my house, but with the front edge on the lawn itself. The holding stakes went through the gravel just fine, and the station sat an inch off the ground but sat flush once I put the stakes in. The mower has had no trouble getting onto its station.I experimented with a few locations for the RTK station (the pole with the satellite dish on it, dish is about 6" in diameter). I had read online that placement for this guy could be frustrating. Some people said they put it inside their attic and it worked well. I was hoping to do that, but my attic is more of a crawl space, we don't have easy access to it, and there is blown insulation everywhere, so it wasn't worth the hassle. Instead, I set it up in the gravel surrounding the deck. It's about 30 feet to the left of the charging station and is just starting to get to the corner of the house.The important information here is that the charging station and the RTK antenna aren’t very far apart and are both located in the backyard. This was Sunseeker’s least optimal arrangement of all the options they suggested. And it still works flawlessly! We haven’t had any issues with satellite connectivity, and the robot has never lost its location. We did try moving the RTK station to the front yard (because Sunseeker seemed to recommend it), but then the base station had trouble connecting to the RTK station. We moved it back to the backyard and everything was flawless.The X7 Plus does a great job mowing. It hasn’t torn up our lawn, even on wet days, and we’ve got plenty of slopes where I thought this would be an issue. No issues so far! The mow lines look great, and you can set a custom direction if you want (but then the entire lawn is that direction — it’s not like you can draw mow patterns on your lawn or anything).Set at normal settings, I have the X7 Plus run from 7:30pm-3:30am. It takes about 2 nights of this to mow the entire acre of lawn. The night mowing seems to work great, and we haven’t had any issues with the mower getting stuck. We did have to create a small “no-go zone” at the front end of our lawn, because the terrain here is extremely uneven. New construction, huge tire tracks from heavy machinery, so there’s are 5” deep ruts in the dirt that the mower got caught on at one point. All the other areas of the lawn have typical undulation, roots, and rocks, and the mower handles all of it like a champ.We mow at night because we are running sprinklers throughout the day and don’t want to mow wet grass. The mower is silent enough we can’t hear it in the house even if we try. Mowing day or night shouldn’t pose any issue for you or your neighbors, and I’ve got the blade speed on high!One word of warning: the app is not great. If you’re familiar with smart devices, you’ll know there are some apps that are extremely well-designed, and some that… aren’t. The “aren’t” category is where this app definitely falls. It’s certainly usable, it doesn’t have any major bugs or annoyances I could find, but it’s just not intuitive or robust. I haven’t found that to be a bother, but as someone who daily uses the Dreame app for my vacuum/mop and the Tesla app for my car, I was hoping the mower app would have a bit more functionality.A couple of quick notes about mapping. There is an AI mapping feature that I did not use, but I wish I had. Mapping the lawn took me about 45 minutes of slowly walking behind the mower while using the joystick in the app to drive the mower. It was fun for a few minutes and then became tedious. I also had to drive him to each obstacle (all the sprinklers) and circle him around it to create the obstacle in the map. Now, to be clear, the map is perfect and the mower follows it perfectly, which is great, but it took a lot of setup. Candidly, I’m not sure if the AI mapping would have done as good of a job as doing it manually, but it would’ve been nice to try it to save the time.One other data point: my grass area being mowed is about 31,400 square feet, and the app says it takes the mower 741 minutes to mow this (on normal settings, but you can choose faster or slower drive speeds and skinnier or wider spacing of paths). This comes out to roughly 42 square feet per minute, so in my experience you’re looking at around 17 hours to mow an acre. That feels like a lot to me, but running it at night for several hours takes care of it. My 3/4 acre lawn is fully mowed in 2 nights.tl;dr — I am absolutely loving my Orion X7 Plus! I bought it on Amazon so I could return it, but I am definitely keeping it. It mows great, it’s very quiet (can’t hear it if I’m inside the house), and runs great at night. I’ve had zero issues with satellite or connectivity, despite putting the base under the deck and the RTK station on the same side of the house, and despite very tall trees surrounding the lawn (but not in the actual lawn area). The robot hasn’t gotten stuck or lost, and it goes right up to the edge that I mapped. The app isn’t inhibiting, but it certainly isn’t a positive either. It’s really the only part of the entire process I wasn’t thoroughly impressed with. The app gets the job done, but leaves something to be desired. Besides the app, everything about the Orion X7 Plus has been fantastic! It mows my 3/4 acre lawn in about 17 hours on normal settings. I run it at night and it does my whole lawn in about 2 nights.

Not ready for prime time. Horrible app.I bought the Orion X7 Plus. My property is 0.9 acres. My two-story home is 4000 sqft. I have large bark beds with a few medium-sized trees and bushes each. My grass areas are fairly evenly distributed over all of my property. My front yard is by far the largest area since my home is located towards the back of the lot. My front yard extends150 ft from the front of the house and the furthest out area is 50 ft below (vertically) the yard at the front of the house. The Sunseeker app says that my grass is 0.54 acres. It takes about fourteen hours for X7 Plus to mow my yard. This includes four battery charging sessions with about one hour each and two hours of mowing between charges. I believe a 0.75-acre mower would have been too little and the X7 Plus rated for 1.5 acres was by far the correct size mower or at least it shouldn’t be smaller than this. To ensure one-time install and as best as possible upfront, I put the RTK antenna on the roof – 35 ft above grade. Due to the size of the property and to ensure WiFi coverage throughout I had to replace my router to a router with two satellites mesh system. I also had to install one outdoor GFCI receptacle each for the antenna (powered from the attic) and charging station (powered from the crawl space).X7 Plus is very tedious to set up and the app is horrible. I’ve noticed the following occurrences:Both the antenna and mower required several firmware upgrades.I got the mower 4/23/2025 wanting to wait a year after the introduction to have the major bugs worked out. However, the nameplate of the mower says it was manufactured 04/2024. So, apparently, I got it with all the initial bugs and quirks.After firmware update of the antenna and the message “successfully downloaded and installed and rebooting.” It actually doesn’t reboot but you have to power it down for ten minutes and then power it back up and then wait ten minutes before you begin anything else. This was suggested by tech support, and I found it to be a necessary procedure.To reboot the mower, you have to take it out of the charging station, power down the charger and turn off the mower for ten minutes and then power them back up and then wait ten minutes and then push the mower into the charging station by hand before you begin anything else. This was suggested by tech support, and I found it to be a necessary procedure.After having created one work zone a message always shows on the app saying, “Bluetooth is lost.” Workaround is to go back to the main menu and start all over creating a new work zone. The very most reliable is to click on “Return” letting the mower to go back to the charging station and then start a new work zone!When Bluetooth is lost you sometimes have to carry the mower back to the charging station and reset and start over.Other reviewers say that Sunseeker has excellent tech support. The tech support people are very nice and very polite and speak quite could English, but it stops there. I found they speak English much better than they understand it. They frequently gave me incorrect information. Also, they we not familiar with the menus of the app. When my app froze up, and I explained what I saw (icons colors, symbols, etc.) of the frozen screen they didn’t understand where I was on the menus. Tech support also said you can only manually start mowing all zones and not one or more individual zones. This isn’t the case. You actually can select which zone(s) you want to mow manually.The charging station area must be at least six feet wide, and the entire six feet width has to be as deep as the charging station is deep. My mower missed the black plastic floor of the station several times and tried to park to the side of it. However, it always self-corrected backing out and made new tries. It does tear up the ground in the process. I had to move the station six inches sideways when I realize that the six feet width was necessary, and in doing this I had to remap the entire yard. The black plastic floor of the station shall be as close to the grass/lawn edge as possible. I have a two-inch gap, so I can move the grass with a tractor as needed. This works fine.If you mount the antenna on the roof, you won’t be able to monitor the four LEDs and not even with binoculars or at night.You can budget with having to map out the entire yard three times over. Partially due to the beta behavior of the app.The mower is listed to mow as much as 4-inch depth of grass. However, when the grass is 5-6 inches tall (in a very local spot – 20 sqin) either the camera or the front bumper will prevent the mower from mowing ahead. If the entire yard happens to be 5-6 inches of tall grass, mowing may be impossible. This is a serious limitation. I’ll still have my yard service and have tentatively asked them to trim edges as usual and to mow the entire yard every three weeks during the fast-growing season Apr-May since it may be doubtful what the X7 can mow.The rear end of the mower will swing out past your mapped boundary with as much as up to six inches if it has to turn at a boundary.When the mower mows straight towards a six inches or taller rock formation or a bark bed being three inches taller than the grass, the mower can’t adequately estimate the distance and will not mow as far as the mapped-out boundary but will turn 1-2 feet before the boundary leaving this area uncut.Once you’ve survived all bugs of the antennas and mower and especially the app and got it setup, it seems to mow very well. But with the exception it may not handle 4+ inches of grass very well.What often not seems to be talked about in reviews is cost, so here’s mine -- and without sales tax.Mower $3,000.Antenna mast hardware for gable mount $100.Two receptacles, cables, junction boxes, and miscellaneous $500.Hi-end 8000 sqft router mesh system to cover the entire property (and to reach 150 ft horizontally and 50 ft vertically to the end of the front yard). $800.Garage $100.Set of spare high quality cutting blades $100.This totals $4,600. If now you hire for the installation of the receptacles and antenna, I estimate you’ll easily total ~$,7,000. For example, my city even requires a permit and inspection) for installing a single 120 V receptacle.Also, I don’t think everyone is wired for or has the patience to do all the initial setup of the mower and may hire for this also to a tone of $1,000-2,000 since this is very tedious with all the bugs and quirks.If you do all the installation, setup, and mapping, including programming of the new router mesh system and home devices, you should budget with seven full days of work.In total for all of the above, I’ve come to that a robotic mower doesn’t cost less than having a yard service. In my case this was ok since I wanted a better cut and especially in the early (Feb - Mar) and late (Nov - begin Dec) season due the very soft soil here in the PNW due to all the for-ever raining. The 52-inch wide zero-turn tractor with grass collection bags of my yard service would leave tracks and get stuck in places and my AWD tractor wouldn’t get stuck but would still tear up the very soft ground.EDIT.The mower is somewhat noisy but to me not disturbing. However, sensitive neighbors may complain if mowing on weekends or at night. You can hear it quite well from inside of the first floor and when it's 20 ft away from the house. You can also hear it from a second story double glass window. I meaured at six feet elevation straight above the mower to 60 dB and six feet horizontally and six feet vertically from the mower to 55 dB. It's nosier than my two nextdoor neighbors robotic mowers who have non-Sunseekers.A trick to make the app working better is to tap on icons etc. rapidly and extremely hard or, alternatively, tap extremely hard and keep it tapped for five seconds plus. This is very unusual and my Samsung S22 Ultra doesn’t show, and never has, this "harsh" behavior/response for any other app or online web sites.

I was between the Orion X7 and the Luba mower. I decided on the Orion based off reviews and capabilities the Orion offers. I needed a mower that could manage a small hill in my backyard, but also manage different areas of my yard since it has several “islands” of grass.First off, I received the mower 2 days after ordering! It took about 2 hours for me to install. I followed the directions in the app, and I couldn’t figure out how to connect the robot to the internet, so I watched their YouTube video “Sunseeker ORION X7: Step-by-Step Installation Guide” (SUPER helpful). Setting up mowing zones was very easy, and I LOVE how it mows in rows.It looks like Sunseeker pushes updates frequently in their app, so I am excited to see what other options are going to be available. So far, obstacle avoidance has worked perfectly (we always have a ball or some toy in the yard). RTK was easy to connect to. Cuts almost my whole yard in one charge, but I also have a mix of grasses and the hill which will obviously use more battery to navigate.Overall, very impressed. I like how they put their dealer info on their website so if there are any issues, I can call them for a quicker response. It is very quiet, I hardly realize it is even there. Being in the South, I am SO happy I don’t have to mow in 95 degree weather anymore! Recommending to all my friends and family!