Thank you for your help, Bryan!
No problem! Keep us posted if it gets resolved.
May very well be so - last time Yarbo was in action was the 9th of January - from this he was sitting and waiting on the charger and nothing but the update happened hardware/snow -wise but we will see coming week . Support says some “electronic component” and escalated it . I kept them up to date of my actions.
Tried to upload a video of Yarbo attempting to adjust with new track slippage update. What app are you using, Google something?
You could use YouTube or share an iCloud link or something.
Paul, I’m a newbie, but isn’t a sidewalk a one way route? You can have it back out or do a zero turn. So, wouldn’t the Yarbo find its way back to the entrance of the sidewalk if no pathway was available?
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Sidewalks are a little buggy right now and code wise are essentially pathways with some extra knobs.
Lol. Nice! That was on the way back to the dock? That’s some pretty deep snow. It looked like it raised the module all the way up at the end there.
It should.
Can anyone explain how sidewalk behavior is determined? I mapped some recently and the behavior is not consistent.
Example I have a sidewalk that I mapped South to North. Sometimes yarbo clears it ‘forwards’ (enters from the south with the snowblower pointed North, clears while driving North). Other times it will clear it ‘backwards’ (enter from the south with the SB facing south, reverse to the north end of the sidewalk, then clear it moving north to south).
How does it decide which to do? Its a coin toss every time on hiw it will execute the sidewalk.
Any insight?
It should execute it the way you recorded it. But depending on where the core is when it starts the sidewalk I believe is a factor on when it runs backwards. For example, dead ends had an intentional code “feature” where if the rear of the core was closest to the entrance, then it would reverse down it instead. This was supposedly to limit grass damage from all th turning. Nice thought but you end up with a whole core length of uncut grass. I suspect this is probably what’s a contributing factor to the sidewalks unpredictable behavior. Dead ends are essentially mower sidewalks so I’m sure they share code. Just my best guess. I’m sure there’s some other factors like the reverse option getting executed first or something like that.
@bryan.wheeler @OhCanada So that’s why the S1 is going down sidewalks in reverse-rear first towards unblown snow. They are using code for Dead Ends for the mower to mow in reverse. A sidewalk is a repackaged dead end that sometimes rears its head as runs a rear first entry into a sidewalk.
is it basically running a dead end? Idk because I have mowed yet but it looks like what you describe if it had a mower attached.
Because directly connected to the end of the sidewalk it’s running in reverse is a pathway so it’s turning around to enter the pathway.
No, that was starting out on the first spiral route. But yeas after being out two times today, it needed another two runs to clear and likely another two before bed. Snow just keeps coming. But grateful for the yarbo to be working and the hand on experience to dial it in
Trial by fire! Best way to learn. My first couple of runs were tough too and I had a lot of test runs beforehand. Nothing quite prepares you for the actual event. Really hard to visualize a lot of what is going on without the snow on the ground. Let alone the difference in handling the robot does in the different winter environments.
How can you tell if the factory is controlling your Yarbo?
I was leaving it sit on the dock waiting for them to remote in, but it stopped charging on the dock after it was 100% for a bunch of hours. I thought some snow drifted underneath. So, I played to clear the dock with Smart Vision and looking out a window with my Bourbon. Then I thought let’s clear the 5 feet to my gas can, which usually spends the winter next to my snowblower in my garage.
The beast was doing fine Turbo, about 70% battery. Then it just STOPPED. ALL LIGHTS OFF NO ANYTHING. LIKE THE PLUG WAS PULLED!
That was at half time, so an hour or so ago. I was hoping they just remoted in and was doing whatever. But it’s still dead as a door knob and no email from Yarbo.
I’ve had that an had to unplug the battery for 30 seconds and reboot hopefully it’s that simple for you
Heard this a couple of times but not sure what the root cause was. Never heard back that I can recall. Try what Tipper suggested, I’d go 5 mins personally. You might need to hold the power button for 60 seconds. If that doesn’t work straight away, connect the wired charger and try the 60 seconds again.
I got lucky and just pressed the power button for a sec and the lights came “Ready to Work”, but still no GPS. I used it to clear the dock and 5^2ft in front of it, but I couldn’t get it to charge this time on the dock. I can’t clear the “Docking Station Overheating” error–it’s 9`F here. 10” of snow already predicting next 4 hours to be light sleet.
Is there a way I can roll back the update!!!
Users can’t roll back unfortunately. If it’s possible, support would have to do it. I’ve never seen a docking station overheat warning. Is your dock light red? I would clear the error on the controller, pull the battery cable for 5 mins, then reconnect and see if things clear up. If not, open a support ticket.