I placed a ticket about the map shift, and no L2 is showing up on diagnostics. Well, I got the map drift fixed, but I kept losing satellite connections in one area of my yard that I never had issues with before. After it failed 3 times, I increased the boundary distance with no GPS to 200 feet, and that seemed to help. Well, when mowing my front yard and another area, I have never had issues before. I lost GPS and had to move it 30 feet to get better GPS strength. Once I hit resume, it made it through the area. This area is between two trees. I think they need to tweak the number of satellites again, as the camera tech is helping, but it is also a band-aid to a problem I never had before. Don’t know if anyone else is having these issues on the latest update, but just putting it out there, just in case and also so the Yarbo team can see it too.
They added a quality metric to the GPS to detect noise and multipath issues that can cause false readings (Rover thinks it is in location A when really it is actually in location B). If it is causing you issues, you can turn that off. But, I would recommend leaving it on and seeing if it will work its way through it on its own. Generally GPS pauses (waiting for GPS) will recover on their own with a little bit of time. You don’t need to do anything, just leave it sit and eventually it should acquire a good enough signal to resume. Every time it recovers a good signal, it resets that PPVS dead reckoning counter back to zero and can travel that 200 ft again should it lose GPS again. If it stops and isn’t recovering, you can tweak the PPVS number up a little and it should immediately start moving again and hopefully recover GPS and keep working. They are working on adding vision (VIO) into the fusion next to further help with no GPS or poor GPS situations.
Hi there, thank you for bringing this to our attention. As Bryan mentioned, the more frequent GPS issues you’re seeing compared to before are due to the new quality metric introduced in this update.
For more details, you can check Section 1 of this article: Firmware v3.10.0 & App 3.16.0 Update Highlights.
In this case, increasing the PPVS Travel Distance setting is a good solution.
I have left it sit for hours it never recovers until I move it. I understand that they changed the quality metric what I am saying is I never had an issue before this update so maybe they went a little to far on restricting the GPS quality.
I have it maxed out so we will see what happens.
It’s possible it might be a bit conservative. If maxing it out doesn’t solve it for you, try disabling it and see if it’s back to “normal” for you.