I understand auto schedule is a work in progress but are you making progress? After the initial setup, my own fault, it went out at 1am automatically and started snow blowing my front yard. Now that I’ve fixed my setup the way it’s supposed to be it’s not sending me any notifications and hasn’t gone out. I’m currently looking at heavy snow coming down and at least 3” on the ground. I really want this to work but I’m not sure I can wait much longer before sending it out manually. Thoughts?
It’s hit or miss sometimes with the weather API. Especially in microclimates. Unfortunately, for now, I’d say send it as soon as you hit 2 inches. Don’t wait for it. It should’ve already notified you long before that it was scheduling something. If it didn’t, it’s not going to.
Hi there,
Thank you for your patience and for sharing your experience. We do have optimizations planned for the auto schedule feature in an upcoming release, which should help improve its overall performance.
That said, since this feature still relies heavily on weather API data, there may be situations where the conditions are not detected accurately enough to trigger an automatic task. As Bryan has suggested, if you observe that there is already snow on the ground and Yarbo has not created an auto schedule, we recommend sending Yarbo out manually to avoid delays.
We really appreciate your understanding as we continue refining this feature, and your feedback is very helpful in that process. Please feel free to reach out if you have any further questions or observations.
It will also spam you with snow notifications when there isn’t much snow at all. I reenabled a week or so ago and turned it off the next day again
@rcguymike Thanks for sharing your feedback. We’ve made some optimizations to this in the next release, and you’re welcome to try it again then to see if there are any improvements.
My experience has been very similar to @rcguymike. I look forward to retrying the weather alerting in the next release.
I think it would run during that time every 2 inches that are forecasted Just my assumption.
With the auto-schedule feature, Yarbo will only run the work plan once during the scheduled time window in order to complete the snow-removal task. It does not repeatedly restart the plan within that time frame. If charging is needed, Yarbo will return to recharge and then continue until the task is finished.