There are 2 possibilities that would be nice if when an error occurs during a mowing session.
Save some sort of tag at the location that the error occurs, so that when the rover returns to the dock after long enough inactivity you can return to the “scene of the crime” to see if anything needs to be adjusted. I.e. a blades blocked or cutting motor block message you can then walk to the location the error occured and find a rock, stick, kids toy😅, etc and remove it from the mowing area
And/or add an option to not go back to the dock until the battery reaches the programmed recharge threshold.
Thank you for sharing these thoughtful ideas! Both suggestions — marking the error location and adjusting the return-to-dock behavior — sound quite interesting and could be useful in some cases.
We’ll keep your feedback in mind and continue to observe how much interest there is from other users regarding these features. Your input is always valuable and helps guide our future improvements.
Also - when this happens if i’m not mistaken, the progress is dropped and even if i clean up the blocked motor at docking station I can’t say Yarbo to continue the operation from where it left off, right?
It should be that Yarbo continues from the point it failed.
If you stop the job it will lose the progress. But if you reboot with it paused it should keep the progress. You can always make note of the current percentage and move it to that when starting to plan again if it does lose the current job.
Will this be backwards compatible with work plans ran before the update or only plans after the update? Will there be an option to go back a certain amount before the plan was cancelled? Thinking small spots might get missed if the plan ends early for certain types of errors.
This update applies to all work plans. After the update, if your next scheduled task uses the same work plan, Yarbo will automatically continue mowing the unfinished areas.
However, if you run a different work plan in between, Yarbo will treat it as a new task and will start from the beginning when you return to the previous plan.
In short, Yarbo keeps progress only for consecutive runs of the same work plan.
Oh, so if you have a rotating schedule that runs different areas in a revolving pattern this might not be as useful…you’d have to catch/pay attention to when an error occurs and manually run that plan again? When you start the plan manually will it ask what percentage to start at and default to “0%” but then start at the last percentage or will it just automatically set the “default start percentage” to the ending percentage from the previous run?
I haven’t seen this in action but my read on it is that when it hits the scheduled stop time it would go back and charge and keep the plan paused and not take until the next scheduled start time for that same work plan. But if another scheduled work plan fired in between it would stop that job. The default was to stop the job prior when the scheduled window closed.
Your other screenshot said manual stop. Did you stop the plan? I think it would have to be schedule driven to kick off the logic for it to resume at the next schedule.
I might have cancelled it manually. It was when it had to charge part way through that mow and on its way back to the area GPS was off about 2’ it clipped a low hanging branch off the side of the pathway it was supposed to be on and broke the RTK. I trimmed those branches right then😅
This feature is related to Yarbo’s automatic operation. If you start the plan manually, it will begin from 0% rather than resuming from where it left off.
let’s see where it goes…
