I added four 5 lb weights to the rear hitch. That solved the reverse bucking problem.
PS: The foam board is just an experiment to keep the battery from overheating in the sun (It works).
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I just got the new FW that does an auto adaption by slowing down the mowing speed when going downhill. It keeps a closer track as long as it is mowing on a small slope angle, or going almost directly downhill on a large slope angle. My yard is almost all slopes (rolling) at a variety of angles up to 35 degrees. The mowing job is better, but at a terrible price in mowing time. It now takes twice as long to mow my yard (and it is over an acre). Only mowing uphill and mowing backwards downhill would be a far better solution for my yard. Mowing uphill (does not have to be exactly uphill, just generally uphill within about 30 degrees to hold a good line), then moving over half a mower width and mowing backwards downhill, would do a very nice job. By mowing in two directions, the grass would get a much more even cut and would be faster than mowing uphill only with a small overlap. I hope this gets implemented.
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about 10lbs but itās leveraged so it looks like more weightā¦
Tim
The trimmer will add about 30 lbās
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is there any progress on the steep slope mowing algorithm? i too bought the yarbo to mow slopes, about 80% of my lawn. i can mow the flats all day with a regular walk behind mower. iām older and would like to be able to stay in my house, so the slope mowing is critical for me. yarbo claimed to be able to mow 35Ā° slopes and is the main reason i bought it. on this basis the algorithm is past due.
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The current firmware has some additional slope logic in it. It is much improved but still not quite perfect. It slows the rover down now on slopes greater than 5%.
Iāve had to resort to multiples of dozens of ādeadendsā to do my slopes. I have the new firmware and it seems to do the same as last version, but slower and with more āzero turnsā. Iāll try and just map a hill and see how it does, to see if the algorithm is actually usable nowā¦
Tim
The new firmware does do much better on mild and medium slopes. Iāve very little touch-up to do anymore, compared to the prior version.
Itās still a āhold my beerā moment when going down steep stuff. Not as bad as before, but itāll still track offcourse by a lane or more. I think a dedicated mowing angle might be more effective, but have not tried it yet.
Thank you for your feedback ā we fully understand how important slope mowing is for you. In the latest firmware update, weāve optimized the mowing logic for better performance on slopes. The machine now automatically adjusts its speed based on the slope angle to ensure stable movement and effective mowing results.
So why does it engage the slope logic when navigating between Areas to reach the target Area? Thereās no reason for it to trigger when itās not even cutting grass.
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Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Iāve forwarded it to our product team for further consideration
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If the slope is great enough it will raise the rear in the air and lose traction then the front will damage the ground which will end in a suspension. We already saw this before the change.
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Is it possible to create a large dead end zone for a slope so the mower just runs forward and backward instead of trying to turn on the slope? I feel like this would be the simplest solution for anyone with a hill like myself. I can manually cut up the hill and bring it back down in reverse and it does a fantastic job. Surely there is a way to simply make a āslope zoneā and have it work the same way. Draw the zone and tell it where to start and what direction to travel.
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Yes this feature is accepted already and on the roadmap. No ETA currently.
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Yes, the mysterious Roadmap, that nobody knows where it is leading, at the current speed they will release just one more update this mowing season. Hardware is dying left and right and they are sending out one core replacement after the other, I think mine is dying too - I have significant GPS issues since the latest update, but Support and the admins deny the problems the users report here, the GPS problem thread is one of the fastest growing oneā¦
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@Deixi - Were you able to get in on the AMA the other night and express your concerns to Yarboās CEO? If not, perhaps what others have asked there apply to your situation as well. Very few questions, but they werenāt exactly easy.
Heck, @bryan.wheeler gave Allen a job interview. Wow. Did he get the job, Bryan? 
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Could not attend this time, the time window was set up for the US timezone, for me thatās midnight. Read through it, like I predicted before, lots excuses, promises to do better, nothing new, nothing helping me with my problems, nothing helping me getting better mowing results, so yeah - sadā¦
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Yeah, Iām in the same boat. Iām up to 122 deadends now and counting to get the hills cutā¦and itās not close to perfect. Itās super hard to keep Yarbo going straight, I have to paint red lines on the grass and follow each one carefully, for sometimes over 50 ft!
But as Brian said, it is accepted, but there is no ETA for implementation, sadly. So maybe see it next year??
I gotta say I kinda like the āDeadend Areaā, more than the series of deadends. We can map as we do now, and just select ādeadend patternā, with an arrow selectable for the uphill direction. Pretty simple and they would be perfectly parallel.
This highlights another reason itās use should be user selectable. It engages on minimal slopes that cause no travel issues. You should be able to toggle per area, per pathway, per deadend, or per anything else that applies.
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I saw today on FB that Yarbo said they are adding a toggle to disable the current slope logic.