Rain deter timeout option

Suggestion and Feature Requests
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Hello,

It is good to have Yarbo stop mowing in the rain, but it would be better to be able to prevent it from starting a mowing job when the grass is still wet.

How about adding a general setting with the ability to set a drying timeout after rain has stopped?

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That is a wonderful Idea. Today it was raining in the morning, rain sensor showed 519. At 9.30AM yarbo showed a normal reading around 20 and it wanted to start its schedule on a completly soaked lawn.
We need a timeout and a an weather-icon on the homescreen. When clicked a pop-up comes up to choose a timeout to delay the planned schedule

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We discussed the rain sensor at length about 3 weeks ago. The bottom line for me is the sensor really isn’t going to cut it.

Summary:

  • The rain sensor gets dirty easily and reads in the low hundreds most of the time. When absolutely squeaky clean, which a mower NEVER is, it can read >2000.
  • The threshold is 1000. And if it rarely reads over 200 or 500…?
  • The sensor dries out quickly, the grass stays wet a lot longer.
  • As you noted, the sensor has nothing to do with the grass. A separate grass moisture sensor was suggested, maybe even an integration with a 3rd party’s product.

A delay – as you suggest here – would be great. An earlier post suggested a “Scheduler ON/OFF”, so why not a “Scheduler ON/OFF/Snooze until DAY:TIME” or “Scheduler ON/OFF/Snooze for N days:hours:minutes”.

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Replacing the current physical sensor would be ideal but is a logistical nightmare. The most likely to be implemented fix is through software in my opinion.

What I would love to see is a timeout value set by the user after rain has stopped, and for the entire list of scheduled tasks to optionally be pushed back (rescheduled) automatically.
The reason is that Yarbo is valuable for customers with large yards. It is overpriced for smaller installations. In my case I have it scheduled to run every day from as early as I can to as late as possible. Any rain delay that cancels a task would mean a much taller grass to cut when it is time to process that area again. And if by chance there was rain again 3 days later, then that area would potentially be skipped again if we don’t have a system that is able to adjust the schedule automatically.

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AHA!
The M1 has an unused expansion port on each side!

Use one for a downward looking moisture sensor?
If it detects dew or standing water, user can have the option to either
ignore it,
suspend the task for xx minutes/hours,
abort the area (move on to the next one in the task),
abort the task.

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