Right!? It super bothers me when I see people disengage/engage when there’s still snow packed in the auger
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I nearly totally disagree, the last update was a big improvement in most areas. It does require changing some settings though. I’m thinking there might have been a slight miss-communication/ever application of the requests. What should happen is if the chute has to change position by quite a bit the tracks needed to stop, it wasn’t doing anything like that…it does this now so it doesn’t sweep the chute blowing snow into the house, vehicles, etc. but they also stopped the auger…which shouldn’t really be needed…stop the tracks, pause a second(until the motor current drops to nominal levels) letting the auger/impeller empty and then turn the chute and resume immediately. If you really think this update made anything worse you should start a separate thread and I’d love to discuss it
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I suspect that might be related to rocks being thrown at oncoming cars during the perimeter lap, and hosing down the front windows of your house with icicle chunks when it returns to dock.
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This!!!
Why stop the auger for the chute to change positions? Just STOP DRIVING and wait till the chute is in the right position. Then start moving again. Seems rather obvious.
All of the auger stopping and starting is wasting energy, putting more stress on the components, and wasting time, making it take longer to complete each area.
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It could move the chute when doing a…wait for it… smart turn! Throw it in reverse to make that three point turn and move the chute while backing up. If zero turns are selected, stop and wait for the load to finish processing in the impeller and then turn the chute.
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I stand by what I said - this update sucks! It shuts everything down to move the shoot. It does not continue forward in a curve (now it stops, raises the blower, turns, then goes forward - getting stuck just goes up 50%). Perimeter has nothing to do with shutting this down and I frankly don’t need a nanny feature anyways. Talking about perimeter, it now turns hard and gets itself stuck on the perimeter now, another new feature! Get a little snow under it, uneven surface alert, awesome, another trip outside. I could keep going but what’s the point?
@B-Mod less here so far - figure we are about half was through this, the thunderstorm with lighting was a nice touch mid storm.
Done plowing now with Skid steer, going to get hairdryer next so I can run my yarbo snowblower.
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Everything you mentioned it did previously…when it got stuck in the old update it would try to get unstuck without raising the blower and would often get stuck immediately. Now it at least raises the blower half way, sometimes all of the way and doesn’t actually get stuck nearly as often. It rarely does curves, sometimes you can get circle mode to generate them but if it’s not a massive radius it used to stop, try to turn, often get nearly stuck, backup get stuck a little worse and then only raise the bucket then, often it was too late. Now it’ll raise the bucket first reorient and then continue on the way. They need to figure out how to make fluid arcs but the behavior when turning is much better than before. Please keep going on, that’s the best feature of this forum, Yarbo gets varied feedback and we can all work towards getting it working correctly.
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@rcguymike I am not going to argue with you on what it did or didn’t do before; I stand by it and others have seen the same difference. My guess is my driveway is MUCH larger than yours so not exactly apples to apples. I can not even see one end of my driveway from the other. For those of us that have driveways that are measured by hundreds of feet in a zone with a total of tens of thousands of sq feet, not a few feet for a driveway in the city find a different result. WE NEED A ROLEBACK FEATURE then you and I would both be happy!
I think what Yarbo needs is user configurable options for things like like the zero turn behavior, how perimeters are handled, the strategy for getting unstuck, etc.
The thing about snow and snowblowing is that there are many different use cases and it’s almost impossible to create a one-size-fits-all solution for them. So giving the users options will allow them to try different possible solutions to find the one that works best for them.
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We’re not arguing, I’m stating what I witnessed and you’re stating what you witnessed. It almost sounds to me like you had something marginally working before, got the update, and then a multiple of things happened afterwards that led to unsuccessful runs. These last few storm systems that came through with the freeze/that were brutal, at least here. How often do you need to run Yarbo? We’re often getting enough snow here that Yarbo can’t complete the areas I want done with 1 charge. I’ve had spans of more than 10 days in a row where I’ve had to have Yarbo run 2 or more times per day to take care of the snow.
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Here is another issue. Why when Yarbo gets stuck, can’t move does not move the slightest bit, it will sit there for minutes, and just keep spinning? It has cm precision, how can it not know it is stuck after spinning for minutes?
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I have almost a quarter of a mile of driveway - we are well past one charge. I live in WI, we know what snow looks like. My setup was not marginal, it was pretty good after the GPS antennas got addressed and two battery replacements. THIS IS CRAP SOFTWARE! Frankly, not asking for your feedback @rcguymike / I looked at your driveway, its not on the same planet as mine for size - I am giving my feedback to the @Yarbo-Forum. This won’t be the first time someone tells them their update sucks, they broke something, they introduced more bugs, caused FILL IN THE BLANK - its endless.
@mike1 Thanks for sharing your honest feedback. We truly understand your concerns and how frustrating this update has been for you. Changes to the snow throwing direction logic may perform differently in different scenarios, and we understand that it may not meet everyone’s expectations. Please know that we have heard your feedback and will pass it along to our product team.
Hi there, we’re really sorry to hear about your experience. Regarding your feedback about zero turns, we’ve already shared it with our product team, and they are actively exploring ways to optimize this behavior. Wet snow can also be especially challenging for the snow blower, and we are currently considering solutions to improve Yarbo’s performance in these conditions, including adding more weight to the tracks. Thank you for sharing your feedback with us.
Yeah this one I definitely don’t understand…especially since they like to advertise “sensor fusion”, even if RTK is out the IMU, motor current/torque sensors, cameras, etc all could tell it to quit digging holes…
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That’s why I’m asking where you have your settings documented so I can compare. You don’t have to share but I’m interested in seeing them.
Size isn’t everything, my goal was to expand automated mowing and snow clearing activities to our neighborhood, currently the S1, mostly due to software issues, isn’t even capable of reliably doing my small driveway. It’s workable for ~60-80% of the snow but IMO that really isn’t good enough. I 100% agree the software is marginal at best for the snow clearing activities.
Mowing I was able to extend reliably to the neighbors yard and even set up some mowing areas for our church a few blocks away.
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