I’ll try swapping the antennas, but I’m not sure if I’ll have time today to do that or whether it’ll have to be tomorrow. Beyond that, I think I have a spare sheet of plywood that I could sacrifice as a prototype shield to place under the DC and see if it makes any difference in the signal. If that does make a difference, I have some ideas on something I can do that might be a better end result. As far as locations go though, there really isn’t a spot with a more open view of the sky than where it’s at. As I mentioned previously, I could move it to a location on my house but the location probably has 30-40% less view of the sky. But I did notice that this morning the signal strengths seemed quite a bit lower then they were last night, so I may need to start paying attention to what the signal strength looks like as the day does by.
@Yarbo-Forum I hope that your quality control department takes my comments to heart. Having a simple go-nogo gauge to check that the barrel has been properly installed should have been something that was already in place. It’s basic production quality control 101. I haven’t yet tried to do mapping, but the fact that I was actually able to complete the setup now says I’m at least moving in the right direction. I’ll be giving mapping a try in the next couple of days.
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@bryan.wheeler
Why does he not pick up any of the satellites in the Galileo constellation that registers a CNR? Shouldn’t all 4 be functioning?
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In theory, it should pick up all four. However, it can vary, depending on the time of day and your location in the world, whether or not you get them at all. Galileo for me is borderline, and sometimes nonexistent as well.
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Well, I finally have my yard mapped. I’ve had two partial successes with getting the robot to mow parts of my yard. There have certainly been a couple of hiccups including the cameras being a little intermittent, which I have a ticket in for, and I’m sure there will be a few more tweaks before all is said and done. Unfortunately, things have just turned cold here with snow. It’s going to warm up a little later this week, so maybe I’ll get a few more opportunities to use ol’ HAL9000 before winter, but we’ll have to see. One thing I’ve noticed it my GPS signal is very sensitive to time of day. If I’m going between like 9AM and 6-7PM, it seems to work pretty good. But after 7-8PM, the area where my dock is located and much of my yard is just completely dead GPS wise. Not sure what I’m going to do about that as I really don’t have another good place to put the dock without doing another electrical run, but if that’s what eventually has to happen, then so be it.
I may have to do some serious editing of the map though to bring the boarders in away from the brush. HAL9000 seems to randomly pick up thorn vines and tall grass as blocking obstacles that make his mowing path much harder than it needs to be.
That he REALLY doesn’t like paths that are at ALL narrow. 
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Hi there, thanks for sharing this feedback. I’ve also seen your update in the support ticket, and our support team will continue following up on the camera issue there.
Regarding the GPS performance, we’re not yet certain whether the time of day is a factor, so this may need some additional investigation from our team.
For the tall grass and brush being detected as obstacles, we are working on improving obstacle detection in these situations, so your feedback is helpful.
Thanks again for taking the time to share your experience, and please feel free to keep us updated if anything else comes up.
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So this is interesting…. I finally bit the BIG bullet and made a task to do the entire yard in one go (not gonna happen, I know), but I’m having SERIOUS problems with connectivity! Every now and then, in certain spots, the rover seems to lose ALL connectivity. In fact, I just watched on the app that the rover seemed to lose connection in a spot it never has before, I tried the diagnostic page which gave me a connection error despite randomly updating some fields, then watched the app play back probably 40-60 seconds worth of movement in about 10-15 seconds like I was watching an old Benny Hill chase sequence.
Is anyone else seeing this today? Is the solar flare maybe the issue?
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I noticed this on one of my rovers. I believe it’s a known issue they are working on. I watched it coming in for a recharge after completing (and couldn’t connect the whole time) and then it finally connected over Bluetooth and then showed 1.5 hours left on the plan. Then as it got close to the dock and I guess Bluetooth finally downloaded all the data, it showed the recharge plan status correctly.
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Did you happen to notice what the Data Latency was? I’ve seen it buffer responses like that when data latency gets high. Usually rebooting the DC seems to help for me.
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The data latency can creep when the app loses connectivity to the rover too. Key indicator is the network connection status in diagnostics. Rebooting everything did NOT fix the issue for me.
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Remember that bug in the DC that continuously spawns new VMs until exhausting the IP pool. For me, I know when it’s time to reboot the DC when MDNS fails and I can’t access my internal machines by name. A reboot of the DC and problem resolves itself. There have been no updates to the DC, so the that bug is still there. I usually failover to 4G every few weeks if I don’t catch it in time.
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I just see a bunch of random MAC addresses, it never pulls an IP address on my equipment. It seems to come and go. Still trying to pin down what (if anything) can be correlated as the cause.
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@Yarbo-Forum claimed they identified the bug that would be “fixed in a future release” .
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I highly doubt I’ll get a chance to look at it tonight, but I’ll try to look at it tomorrow and explore my network and see what’s going on with all of that. If I see a bunch of MAC addresses reserved with no IPs or other similar kind of network activity, I’ll try and get a screenshot and post it here.
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I looked at my Starlink the other day and I had 11 addresses on there when there should be 6. Kinda weird. The DC def needs a daily reboot. I may put it on a smart outlet.
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Mine is on a smart outlet already. And others have stated theirs are too.
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No telling when they will get around to fixing it. I haven’t seen an update to the DC during my ownership.
Interesting. I would update 1 thing a week and let us vultures just foam at the mouth.
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