I wish to locate my docking station inside of my garage. The data center will be less that 75 feet away with a clear view through my double garage door. Will that work?
It is not recommended. Your rover needs to have reliable GPS signals. That is the purpose of the two RTK antennas on the rover. It works in coordination with the Data Center to determine its position but it can’t do that if the satellites are obstructed. What people have done is to place the dock in the garage and manually drive it on and off. Once you leave the garage the rover will usually get GPS signal and then you can start your automated work plan.
As Bryan said. If you manually drive off the Docking Station to start a Work Plan, in addition to driving where you get GPS, you need to be in a mapped location (Area, etc.) that will allow the rover to navigate where it needs to in order to start the Work Plan.
I park the rover in my garage sometimes, and I have an Area right outside of the garage the rover can use to get anywhere else on the property. I drive the rover out, plop it there, wait for GPS, and start any Work Plan I want.
When the Work Plan finishes, if there’s no Docking Station installed in the App to go back to, use Smart Vision to get the rover back into your garage and up on the pad to charge.
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