We need an option to keep the lights on if Yarbo gets stuck! My wife didn’t even see Yarbo and messaged me asking why it didn’t run today when there was even more snow than yesterday. I thought it had finished and went back to the dock. It had gotten stuck over an hour ago and I missed the notification (I’m a heavy sleeper😅)
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Getting stuck out by the road scares me. I have visions of the county snow plow yeeting Yarbo out into the middle of the yard and I dont think Yarbo is very aerodynamic….
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Originally I had set up a ‘sidewalk’ to remove the snow along the side of our street leading to the mailbox…. But then I started thinking about the failure modes and I changed my mind!
Imagine Yarbo getting stuck on the side of the road, then the snow plow coming and turning it into tiny little Yarbo-bits!
I manually drive the area to the mailbox. At least if it gets stuck and the plow comes, I’ll have a front row seat to the action.
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I guess I could add that mailbox area back, but just only activate it manually when I’m standing nearby…
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Have the video rolling. Just in case….
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You can put a no-go zone or multiple covering the whole area and just turn them on and off when you want?
Edited the album cover, should show it right behind my wifes van now…totally could have been an opportunistic Yarbo payback moment:sweat_smile:
In this case, I was talking about making a snowblower “sidewalk” that leads out of my driveway and along the side of the road to clear the street where my mailbox is.
I would just create a work plan called “Mailbox” that only includes that sidewalk.
I could then manually activate that work plan independently of the main job of clearing my driveway.
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I just added 8 sidewalks to muck around with to see if it can get through a larger snow plow bank, it actually managed today’s only getting stuck in the corners. Hopefully I can pick 4-6 of the sidewalks to pre-clear the corners and then the rest of the area can run out into the road a couple feet. I might try slope mode occasionally but I think it’s currently too buggy.
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I set up something similar to clear the apron of my driveway. It worked well in my initial snow test, but I did end up making some changes.
The area in red is the end of my driveway, where it meets the street on the right hand side.
I set up a series of dead end sidewalks (in purple) to chip away at the snow that piles up from the snowplow. Yarbo drives down each of the sidewalks, then backs up the sidewalk, then moves on to the next sidewalk. The process continues until all of the sidewalks are clear.
Then, Yarbo does a normal zig zag clearing of the purple area to make sure it’s nice and clean.
Wow! That must’ve taken a few minutes 
, do you need that many? Does it get stuck on the reverse leg of the first sidewalk or does it stay centered pretty good?
I’ve only used it once so far, so I don’t know how reliable this design will be long term.
You’re right. Probably the biggest concern is accuracy when Yarbo tries to back up out of each sidewalk.
It seemed to be pretty accurate when backing up, but not perfect. The accuracy is better when there aren’t any turns in the sidewalks. So further iteration may end up being necessary. We’ll see what happens when it snows again.
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Hi there, thanks for your suggestion. If more users share the same interest, I’ll be happy to pass this along to our product team.
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