Our take
GARDENA smart SILENO free 1200
A quiet, appealing wire-free Gardena, but early owner reports about satellite connection and getting stuck make it harder to recommend than the established wired SILENO models.
The appeal is classic SILENO quietness without a boundary wire.
Early buyers have reported lost satellite connection and repeated stuck events, with several returns mentioned in owner forums.
Lawns suited to gnss-based virtual boundaries.
Gardens outside its stated lawn-size, slope, positioning or boundary requirements.
- Set the mowing boundary in the app instead of laying a boundary wire.
- Dual cutting discs and LONA Intelligence
What owners and reviewers say
An identified SILENO free 1200 owner reported frequent satellite interruptions and ultimately returned the mower. The account is more informative about a difficult installation than about the model’s overall failure rate.
When wire-free mowing became manual work
In a discussion about the new SILENO free range, an owner explicitly naming the 1200 said they had to relocate it several times a day after it lost positioning. They described only occasional bushes and small trees near the working-area edge. After trying it for longer, they returned it because regular manual restarts defeated the purpose of buying a robot.
[1]Support did not resolve that installation
The owner said support repeated existing guidance and suggested a different, wired mower. This is their account, not an independently diagnosed fault. Several replies concern other SILENO products, including wired models, so they cannot establish a reliability pattern for the free 1200. The discussion also does not tell us whether later software would change the outcome.
[1]Sources (1)
Full specifications
- Working area
- 1200 m² (±20%)
- Navigation
- Virtual wire, boundary-wire free with GNSS satellite signals
- Cutting width
- 22 cm
- Cutting height
- 25–45 mm
- Run time
- 140 min typical mowing time per charge
- Slope
- 35% inside installation and at boundary
- Noise
- 58 dB(A)
- Weatherproofing
- IPX5
Sources
Videos
- Search YouTube for GARDENA smart SILENO free 1200 ↗Search results may include similar models; check the model name.
