Johnny 5 refuses to use my pathway on my driveway and I can’t figure it out. Maybe someone here can spot the issue. It’s crazy that Johnny travels from 1 side of my yard to the other through the back yard like 8-10 times and uses similar paths every time. It’s flattening my grass in those areas. I add the pathway hoping that Johnny would use it to cut down on some of the long trips around the back of the house.
It’s a little difficult to see in the picture, but does the pathway extend into the area on the left a right couple feet. If not, it might not see it as a connection.
Does it use any Pathway except the one from the Docking Station? I suspect not.
This is one big Area. I don’t believe that Yarbo will use those other Pathways to get from one part of an Area to another part of the same Area. It wants to find a way to the Area and put all the mowing lines in that Area and get to work.
You may be able to force the use of the alternative Pathways using Stubby Deadends and adding them to the start or end of the Work Plan, but that won’t help you while the mower is working in the Area – it’ll still do largely the same as it does now.
Two suggestions (no, three, sir!) that may be worth a shot:
A) Split up the Area into smaller chunks that are mowed independently. That way it won’t create navigation lines from alllll the No-go Zones through that land bridge.
B) Map the Area to include your driveway and put a No-go Zone on the driveway, leaving the strip where the Pathway is outside the No-go Zone. OR use Edit Area to expand the driveway section to include that strip where the Pathway is. It should see that open strip and want to navigate and mow through it, using that strip as part of its navigation calculations. That should ease the number of passes it takes across that land bridge.
C) A bigger (B): Map the whole rectangle and put No-go Zones where the rover shouldn’t go. Any little strips that you keep open “should” be used to help navigate. Yes, it will mow them, and it could be tricky to get the No-go Zones right, but it may work.
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3ft into the area is the best recommendation and it can’t start or end in an overlap.
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