We should have the option to use tires instead of tracks during warm months so grass has less damage from track wear.
Thanks for sharing your suggestion! We don’t currently have plans to move in this direction, but we really appreciate you taking the time to share your idea with us.
Is there a plan to address the wear your core treads make on grass? my lawn is worn in many areas due to use with this robot and forcing me to use a manual mowing method. Same is true for any lawn based option like the blower.
Turning on smart turn is about the only help there is. You can try different patterns to find one with less turns, and change it up to move the turns in different areas of the lawn.
Also adjust the number of perimeter laps. Pattern rotation is also very helpful.
Pattern rotations does not work for adaptive pattern .. unfortunately.
Indeed and that’s why I don’t use adaptive. Makes weird patterns in general. That and the lack of rotation make it unusable for me despite the other advantages.
Also dead-end handling could be better … all the turning and dancing to switch from one dead-end to another is leaving patches without any grass.
Use Yardstick to have the start points all be exactly the same. Makes it very efficient and stops the dancing.
I just ran 3 consecutive 9hr WP (which took 12-13hrs to complete) I never really had the cadence to require 3 consecutive plans. 36 hr straight basically. Used zero turn as a setting just to see the chaos it would cause in the yard. I used battery swaps so it ran continuously for the 12 hours) no charging time.
ZERO TURN HAS NO PLACE IN THIS SOFTWARE. TAKE IT OUT. ITS UTTERLY USELESS. COOL THAT WE HAVE TANK TREADS AND WE CAN DO THAT-DON’T.
Instead reprogram smart turn to use more distance. Smart turn is excruciating in relation to total time plan. With zero turns (which is way faster) it spent about 3-4 hours not moving forward. That seems like a lot of time and wasted battery. Make the smart turn more efficient. The core spends a lot of time not moving forward. The micro movements and corrections for smart turns take way too long. Just preform a modified 3 point turn. This does like 7 or something. It takes way too long to get back in the game.
My yard is large and takes way to long to mow with smart turns so I have to use zero turns. My grass is tough enough to handle the turns except in spring and fall when everything is soft from the added rainfall and less sun.
How about a gradual turn. They showed it in demos of the product but we still don’t have it. And yes a 3 point turn would be like the middle road of zero turn and 7 point turn. But hey now you can talk to your yarbo…
@B-Mod
Absolutely. It’s bonkers the amount of time the core isn’t moving forward.
My yard right now is about 24,000sqft. Cut into 5 WP. With 1 battery this one 24,000sqft 5 WP zones I bet would take almost 2 full days.
November mowing update is wild.
Can wait for the April Snow Blower Update.
I’m terrified of the my first few S1 missions.
When doing my inspections I have a shredded belt from last year on my last work plan I ran. Plenty of belt shavings from last year.
And remember they made changes to snowblower after the season, I wonder how those are going to play out on the first snowstorm of the year?
I was very happy with the progress at the end of the season for the S1 last year. It was working pretty good in my testing. Hopefully all of that is still in place.
I agree that this should not exist when another turning mode is selected. No pivots, no zero turns, etc when smart turns, U-Turns, or the new curved beta are selected. But zero turns should be an option. Just never used when not selected. The new curved beta and the revised smart turns does a much better job of respecting this. It isn’t perfect, but it is a good start. It still isn’t optimal for efficiency either. We need a Zamboni pattern. Run 3-4 perimeter loops and then do a pass, skip a few lines with a gradual turn through the perimeter passes and just keep looping back getting all the skipped lines.
Bingo. That’s the winner.
@Yarbo-Forum
Please please please listen to @bryan.wheeler.
He’s correct.
Using Zamboni rounded turns it key then do the perimeter laps last you hide the rounded turn arounds.
This! This has been suggested so many times also, but falls on deaf ears, and I don’t understand why.
This request is an old as YARBO itself.
We have seen diagrams. Pictures. Charts.
Drawings.
Zamboni Watch 2026/2027
Day 1
I’ll be back tomorrow for Zamboni Watch Day 2
I am sure I will be here too, god willing of course.