Flymo Bluetooth App 4+

The ability to control all the settings such as lawn coverage, drive past wire etc are a definite improvement in the latest version. However, having to go through the entire set up process each time the app starts up makes it unusable.
With the previous poorly featured version I could at least use it from the house to see if our mower had made it home and was charging in the evening and could check in to see when it was next due out. I can no longer do this without going into the garden to turn the mower off and in again in order to activate the Bluetooth discoverability - this obviously makes the app useless and needs to be fixed. Previously the app stayed connected to the mowers Bluetooth between app restarts. It no longer does.

The original app did a job and worked in its basic format on my iPhone . Spotted the update for the app and wished I had never. It has forgotten it was paired to my Flymo EasiLife. So followed the on screen instructions. After 4 mower restarts to pair to the new app eventually paired but said the mower had a problem and offered no access to schedule or anything else. So IT rule number one do a restart of everything. After restart it would not pair to the mower again. Luckily I have the old app on my iPad so paired my iPad with the old app everything works fine. But I had to turned off auto app updates. Please fix or put the old app back.
Updated
So after my original review of the version update to 1.5.1 updating to version 1.5.2 happy days back in action. Still not as simple as the previous version to 1.5.1. But hurray it now works. Hats of to the team in control, they have taken on board the comments from the App Store and released a new version that works. This now compliments the the product. Looks different but works. Upgraded my star rating back to 4.

Out of the box, I couldn’t connect to the mower. Performed a software update and all is now working perfectly. This is a bit of a faff having to physically connect the mower to a computer… with a USB A-B old printer style cable. Bit retro lol!!!
Really pleased with the functionality and settings in the app. Once a relationship is setup, it connects immediately. (Noted some older reviews said you had to reconnect everything - not the case anymore).
Overall, the app and mower do everything they need to and I’m pleased. Only drop one star as it would be good to have updated over the phone to the mower and Wi-Fi connectivity. Seems to be a selling point for high end mowers to have Wi-Fi, yet I can buy a £10 plug that has remote Wi-Fi connectivity. Small point but a big user issue. Really pleased with it overall.