Was hoping to mitigate the chute orientation with several sidewalks.
I Failed.
The core leaves the dock, lines up on the first of the two west sidewalks, backwards, and drags the S1 the length of the path. If then drives forward, back to the start. It then drags the S1, backwards, along the 2nd west sidewalk, and executes THAT sidewalk twice. And no, “work twice” is not selected.
It does execute the two east sidewalks correctly, probably by chance.
It then executes the 3 northward sidewalks backwards, dragging the S1 behind.
@Yarbo-Forum , I do appreciate your advice and effort. Please ask the devs
a) How they expect this to actually work. Get an actual answer from them.
b) If it’ll be fixed before JUNE of the year 2035, and if that firmware will be released before the year 2490.
Curious if you noticed if it’s the same bug that dead ends had where if the rear of the core was closest to the entrance of the path, it would just back down. They also had the work twice bug. Especially when it backed down.
This was supposedly intentional to minimize grass wear. Seems logical that this could creep into sidewalk logic too. I don’t think it should be a feature, if it still is one for dead ends. Certainly not for sidewalks. However I’d love for it to back down my docking station pathway and straight onto the dock. It could do that all day long!
This explains why my dry runs weren’t working out as planned. I got frustrated and sent Yarbo to charge. Yarbo had a meltdown on the charger (let the smoke out). So I’m done testing until a core replacement arrives.
I saw this same bug myself! Happened during one of my test runs, but I couldn’t reproduce it. The damn thing drove backwards along my sidewalk, which of course it was mean to clear snow from.
Hi there, could you please submit a support ticket and share the ticket number with me? I’ll help escalate it to our development team, and we’ll look into this issue.
Same issue here. Mapped a sidewalk to clean up and edge along the driveway. Yarbo backed down it (in the same direction I mapped it, just backwards), turning the snowblower on and off as it went. When it got the the end, instead of at least driving back the way it came (reverse out was turned on), Yarbo decided to turn 90 degrees and drive directly into my front porch stairs. Other sidewalks it cleared exactly as they were mapped. This one it likes to drive backwards and then into the stairs. I tried it twice to confirm.
I dont even have a question or anything at this point. Just bewildered.
Edit: after rewataching a video of it, it occurred to me that yarbo is actually executing the entire work plan backwards. Not only is it reversing, but its turning the s iwblower on and off in reverse of what it should. Its off while yarbo is moving, then turned on when yarbo is adjusting for corners.
If you haven’t already, please submit a ticket for this issue, then post the ticket number here along with the video you’re describing, so @Yarbo-Forum can forward the details to the engineering team.
Also I just ran a plan with 3 parallel sidewalks with reversing on…it got to the end of the first sidewalk and zero turned onto the end of the second and ran that one back to the beginning then zero turned onto the last sidewalk…
That’s definitely unexpected behavior and will need further investigation from our team. Could you please submit a support ticket for this issue and include detailed information along with the approximate time when it happened? We’ll look into it further to identify the root cause and provide a solution.
Hi there, this may be related to a known issue. Based on the current logic, if the distance between the starting points of the sidewalks is less than 0.3 meters, Yarbo will treat them as a single sidewalk. This could explain why it performed the zero turns. We’ll work on optimizing this logic in a future update.
I had Yarbo clear my actual walkway this morning (using a sidewalk path) and it thankfully worked as intended. Which is very odd because the last time I ran the same job, it did the stupid backwards thing through the job. So it’s inconsistent.
I have mine set up as a s pattern having is zero turn in the middle of the drive way when it is done. I did this in response to the erratic backwards behavior. Let’s see how it does.
Is it possible it is behaving this way because the side walk is within an area? Mine outside of an area seem to behave as we would expect.
