But Yarbo wants to play on the trampoline too.
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Yes, but I donât think it will work. 
Although I agree with most ch of the OPs comments, with some adjustments I keep getting better and better looking lawn. For its many flaws I am becoming happier with it. It does share flaws common with many robot mowers, like the guards.
The gap around the no go zones is really not good. I am experimenting with templates to reduce this. Largely this is my biggest complaint. I have a robot to save me time, although it does this it is adding more of my most hated activity, trimming. Until it gets closer I canât see their trimmer being much benefit.
Routes are bad, I expect some across the yard travel, but currently its efficiency is poor at best.
My tips taken from othersâŚ
Turn off vision when possible.
Certain things are better without no go zones, think things that clearly are bump avoidable.
Mow often - 1/2 inch cuttings work well
I hate this - 8in overlap (largest) really makes a huge difference.
Donât mow wet and especially dew grass
Keep in mind that this is relatively new tech and users are early adopters. Vacuums took a long time to get where they are at and have confined spaces with relatively low damage possibilities.
I also own a Luba, while it has better ability to go under trees, maintain very tight boundaries, and much more efficient routes it lacks in other areas. Like size capabilities, worse cut, you must draw everything, and lack of adjustments. It also just goes out of bounds for seemingly no reason - mine was ran over for this reason (also due to no alert). You canât move remotely at all, must be within 15ft of mower. It is one of the more proven units out there for mowing. It also lacks any attachments of course.
It shares the cross yard cuts, bad vision, worse obstacle avoidance, poor alerting.
Until Yarbo can improve itâs no go mowing it will share responsibility with Luba. Luba being the trimmer.
I firmly believe that Yarbo will continue to improve as Luba did, difference is is Yarbo is hugely more capable.
I would like to thank the OP. More attention and prompter resolution/improvements are needed. I see these same comments throughout the forum.
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jyoke follow this link and complete the thread if you have advices that are not there already!
As for the no vision, not sure about that one. I prefer it on. Avoided me while I was on my John Deer (did not see it coming but it went around me⌠Almost destroyed 7K$ worth of robot! It would have lost against my tractorâŚ) And It gets much closer to obstacles with vision on and no no-go zones⌠I really use NGZ only around my lake, my Garage and shed (so it doesnât enter it when the door is open!), my few gardens (they have no borders and I would be affraid Yarbo confounds the yummy lettuce/basil/minth etc as long grass), the septic fossa covers (they are slightly elevated, sometimes Yarbo sees them, sometimes not, but when it doesnât because I mow low, the blades hit the concreteâŚ), the fire pit (obviously!) ans some holes⌠The NGZ are for temporary events (RV, car, teens that throw in a party and left a crap load of stuff on the ground⌠etc).
In short, I prefer to keep vision, goes closer to obstacles, goes around unpredicted obstacles. Yes it sees ghost, but on the next mow it will likely go over it⌠I only disable it in an area of my lawn where it is large, open, no obstacle and I want it to go as fast as possibleâŚ
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Always a work in progress, BTW.
I have just updated this with the new features Yarbo added at the end of 2024, a little too late for my snow season, so I donât know exactly how theyâll work, but they could really bump this up a notch. Looking forward to it. Well, not the cold and the snow, mind youâŚ
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When you have NGZ then to get Yarbo really close you need to draw dead ends around the NGZ. Just make sure it is in perfect GPS zone and it will cut the time needed to use trimmer significantly.
Surprisingly the dead ends doesnât care about the NGZ. So for example my wifeâs flowerbeds have single NGZ drawn all around them. It also has 4 deadens inside this NGZ where the walkways are. So Yarbo is doing great work mowing also between the flowerbeds. I just had to make sure the dead ends will start outside of the NGZ.
All my dead ends have settings that allows Yarbo to move slowest speed possible. I can confirm that at least in this situation Yarbo managed to deliver centimeter precise positioning
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This right here is one of the actual, quality responses I like to see on this forum - answers and experience, as opposed to wild amounts of exaggeration and dramatics.
I might be new, but I can see the âNextdoorâ problem on this forum very clearly - we canât downvote useless posts like we can on Reddit. Maybe thatâd be a good feature request.
Letâs solve problems!
Keep reading. The problem is almost everything is a workaround to get this thing to somewhat work.
I would say mine âsomewhat workedâ out of the box. With no tweaking it reaches âthoroughly mediocreâ. Workarounds like these have brought it to âmeets my expectationsâ.
My biggest disappointment has been the slow roll out of updates/fixes. I think they started too frequent and ran into issues, but now they are coming too slow. His point seems to be that many issues do have solutions (or nearly solutions) and many people here have found creative ways to get Yarbo to do what they need until official fixes roll out.
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Thanks Micke, I might have some to add.
Although I certainly agree with your assessment, turning vision off equated to a much better looking lawn for me. With vision on I got tons of missed areas, it was somewhat mitigated by customizing vision and setting at its lowest, but still problematic. Have condsidered using no vision zones. Agreed with vision it will normally get closer and reduce trimming rather than a ngz. I take some pride in a nice looking lawn and would rather trim the areas I would likely trim (less of) anyway. With vision on I am running around 2 acres of grass trimming rows and odd spots. So indeed your advice is valid, just depends on what you are after. Note vision doesnât stop it from being decapitated. I am very aware of Yarbo when it is out and about, unfortunately the county dog catcher was not when she ran over my Luba. Again no match for a car and certainly is not fast enough to get out of the way.
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