Does anyone happen to know why the leaf blower when you send it out for parallel job it travels the border of the area probably six - eight inches off the border without the blower running and then after it’s done its lap around the perimeter, it then decides to actually start the job? Is this just a new feature that Yarbo has decided to introduce, much like if you have the leaf blower in spiral mode, you can no longer set the blower speed? I couldn’t remember if it did this last fall or not. Probably did, I just can not remember this “feature”.
I don’t remember mine doing that in the fall either. Sounds new to me.
I wonder what the purpose of all that driving around is for? Hopefully we can get clarity.
Mine did that right before the snow came. It failed to blow the there perimeter just like you described. @mike1
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@Yarbo-Forum - @rgloverii raises a good point. Can you explain to us what the point of Yarbo driving around the perimeter is for without blowing? Is this an oversight, like taking features away, such as adjusting the blower speed for spiral operation?
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Hi there,
Thank you for sharing your observations about the blower’s behavior—this is really helpful feedback.
Regarding the first issue you mentioned: when starting an auto plan, the blower will initially perform a perimeter pass around the area. During this lap, it will not activate the blowing function when traveling along the boundary line where you’ve set the blowing direction. Could you please check if this matches what you’re experiencing?
As for the second point about not being able to adjust the blowing speed when in spiral mode, I’ve already passed this feedback along to our product team for further evaluation.
Thanks again for helping us improve. Please let us know if you have any additional questions or observations
I don’t know if I would necessarily say that that meets my expectation. I don’t understand why it would travel around the perimeter doing nothing but that’s exactly what it’s doing. I think our question is, why is this the behavior? I don’t think any of us want it to travel around and burn battery for no apparent reason.
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Yeah, I’m not immediately understanding that explanation at all.
To be clear: My leaf blower didn’t do that last fall. So I’m assuming this is some new behavior introduced in the latest firmware.
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Mine blew the perimeter at one point. Then right before the snow flew (pre update) it started doing exactly what’s described above (still pre-update) My bet is yours will too when you get it out again.
Blowing the perimeter makes sense. Running a lap not doing anything doesn’t.
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So yours stopped blowing the perimeter WITHOUT a firmware update as the cause for the behavior change?? That’s really interesting.
You’re almost making me want to go dig out my leaf blower to test it.
But then I remember that it’s only 38° outside and snowing. So nope. Not gonna happen! 
I am almost certain that mine actually ran the blower on the perimeter (not 100% sure). It does not anymore, just drives around for no reason on the perimeter and after it does the entire thing, it start the job. For someone that has a driveway that is almost a quarter of a mile long, that burns a lot of battery. Since the last time I used the blower, we’ve had at least two, maybe three firmware upgrades.
Ok. I went back and reviewed some videos I took of the leaf blower doing its thing.
First step was driving around the perimeter, blowing the leaves into the interior of the area, which makes sense.
After doing that, it would begin working the interior based on the leaf blowing direction.
You’re not crazy. I think they push patches or updates without us knowing. Absolutely impossible (in my opinion) to just stop blowing the perimeter on Monday and not doing it on Tues.
I didn’t change anything. No new maps, sidewalks, NGZs, so then what happened?
Mine was doing it right before the latest update. Then the update happened while I stored for the winter.
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For example, in the map below, the blower will first perform a perimeter pass to clear the boundary areas. On the section you’ve designated as the blowing direction (indicated by the yellow line), the blower will remain inactive, as this is the target area where leaves are meant to be blown into. However, if you observe the blower running without activating on other sections of the perimeter, this is abnormal. We recommend submitting a support ticket for this issue so we can investigate further.
It is abnormal to have this travel around as described by a few of us here already. In your example I would have it blow most if not all of the square boundary as my direction to blow. So then it would as you indicate, go around the entire square and do nothing but burn battery. That is abnormal.
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I understand your point. In that case, perhaps making perimeter passing an optional setting that users can freely choose would be a better alternative to the current behavior.
If you think that would help, I can submit it as a feature request to our product team for consideration.
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I think what we are saying is that it should blow the perimeter but isn’t. Maybe we have settings in place that are negating blowing the perimeter? But why would any of my blower settings not permit perimeter blowing of any kind? Why would it bother making 2 laps with no blower running?
But I can see a use case for toggle. Please submit.
I think a lot of our settings should be toggleable (not a word)
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Exactly. This makes absolutely no sense.
Sorry, I woke up to a snow covered yard this morning so I won’t be putting the leaf blower on to test the perimeter functionality any time soon..,
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no sense of adventure! 
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