I’ve used this thing all season (My First) to mow my property, and in adjusting myself and the mental mower to all the updates that “FIX” known issues I realized that because of these “UPDATES” and “FIXES”, I have been seeing options to “SPLIT” work areas. I have no problem with that and all is good. My suggestion is that in future “UPDATES”, would it be possible to offer an option to COMBINE 2 ADJACENT work areas into one main? I currently mow my back yard on 2 different planned/mapped areas. What makes this difficult is scheduling the second plan to commence immediately after the first area is completed without going back to the docking station first. To COMBINE the 2 areas would so much simplify the process of mowing without needing to manually start a new work plan. Right now, I believe that my only option is to delete both areas and remap the same as 1 area. Not a rabbit hole that I care to go down as all the usual mappings issues will be nipping at my heels as I do it.
I believe they commented recently they are working on a solution for this. In the interim, delete the smaller area, edit the first area and map the smaller area 2 into it.
Thanks for the suggestion! We’ve passed this feature request along to our product team for consideration.
It may not be among the highest-priority items at the moment, but we really appreciate you sharing your interest in it. Feedback like this helps us better understand what would make the overall experience more convenient for users.
That’s a good thought and I may toy with it. For now, what I’m doing is watching the app and when it tells me it’s complete and returning to recharge, I end the charge (Making sure the mental mower is still in a mapped work area.) and then start the second half. I can live with that for now, but as you suggested and I had mentioned, I may just delete both areas and remap both as one next season.
You could make a work plan with both of the areas in one. This way at least it would complete one and go immediately to the next one without you having to watch it.
Although your reply shows a simulated sincere concern, and without bashing Yarbo, I offer that as these suggestions/concerns are passed on to the development teams as you say, they/Yarbo needs to take into consideration that these suggestions that we end users are offering are not jabs at Yarbo, but real time issues that we experience and were under the impression that Yarbo strongly “Advertised” to gain our patronage. All with the concept of Automated operation that it is supposed to free up our time to do other things in our busy lives. On the other side, once purchased and set up, we end users are spending just as much time tweaking, adjusting, and reconfiguring options that were supposed to make the product “Autonomous” on it’s original sales pitch/factory configuration. When one sits down and compares continuous time needed manually to adjust an “Autonomous” mower to physically/100% manually operated push/riding mowers, it really does not balance out. Manual time behind/on machines is equal to or less than time constantly adjusting an Autonomous item that was supposed to avoid this rabbit hole in the first place. So where did the concept of freeing up time with autonomous mowing get lost? I’m on the fence with this thought at this point. Today’s autos have the same technology, and I do not see a noticeable number of issues that have end users back at the dealers in the numbers that would mimic the issues that we are dealing with here. That’s just my honest opinion.
I will try that before I end up remapping. Thanks.
@Yarbo-Forum - Will you share what priorities you’re working on?
I understand where you’re coming from, and we’re aware that there is still a gap between the level of autonomy users expect and the experience in some real-world environments today.
We do take feedback like this seriously, especially when it reflects the amount of time and intervention users still need to put in. When our team evaluates what to improve next, we have to look at several factors together, including how many users are affected, how much an issue impacts the overall experience, and the development effort involved.
That doesn’t mean these concerns are being dismissed. We know it’s our responsibility to keep improving Yarbo so it can deliver the level of autonomy, reliability, and time-saving experience users expected when they chose the product.
We appreciate you being candid with us. Feedback like this helps us better understand where the real gaps are and what matters most in day-to-day use.
We’re continuing to optimize the overall autonomous experience, including ongoing improvements to our vision model and obstacle handling.
We’re not able to share a detailed priority list, but we’ll keep the community updated on major improvements as they roll out.