I’m looking for guidance on how to best handle the flowing situation as winter is headed my way. I use Yarbo at two locations, each one being tied to a season. In the summer, it’s taking care of about 5 acres of grass at a second home so I don’t have to drive there to mow. In the winter, that house isn’t really used so there is no need to have Yarbo there, so I plan to use it at my primary residence for snow removal. I did this last winter when I first received the machine and it did great.
When I first received yarbo, I created a temporary base station setup that worked fine over the winter and then I relocated everything to the other house in the spring. In the process, it was a reinstall and wiped out all of my maps. Not a big deal, it was a relatively small snow removal map. Now that I have huge, complex, multi zone maps for mowing, I do not want to lose all of that when moving back to my primary residence for winter snow removal. I also ready don’t want to disturb the permanent base station install at the second home.
So, here is the question…. How do I set up a second site and relocate Yarbo without disturbing the other one? The locations are about 90 miles apart, so I definitely need a separate base station for each. Can Yarbo be used with two base stations? If not, is there a way to back up an entire location configuration so I could back up one site then reinstall at the other and restore? I know map backups exist, but would that work for switching between two sites, each with its own base station?
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The new cloud backup feature will completely restore docking station and DC information onto a replacement core. So backup and restore of maps seems feasible. I do not know if the local rover backups contain the same data. Perhaps this is something @Yarbo-Forum could confirm. If they do, you could purchase an additional DC for the new location (assuming it is more than 6 miles away, otherwise it should just work with the existing one). You’d have to backup and then delete the maps from the old location and reinstall the DC and DS at the new location. Then you could restore from saved maps at each location.
The other option that should hopefully be available sometime soon would be public NTRIP. You would just need internet access for the rover at each location and it wouldn’t require a DC (unless you wanted to use it for HaLow). You could use cellular on the rover for this, but it can eat up the data plan pretty quickly so if they don’t offer a bigger plan and this is the route you were to go, you might have to get your own SIM and data plan. There is no announced ETA on this so it currently isn’t a viable option yet. But by spring, it might be. Just something to consider.
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Being able specify my own NTRIP would be ideal. Cellular at one location is nonexistent, so Halow or having the rover perform reliably over wifi would be needed. The locations are 90 miles apart, so each location needs to get data from a different rtk base.
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I’m sorry, but at the moment we do not support the feature you described. If you move your Yarbo to another property, the map would need to be redrawn for that location.
As Bryan mentioned, this may become easier in the future once public NTRIP support becomes available, since that would allow operation without reinstalling the data center. We appreciate your patience and understanding while we continue improving the system.
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@Yarbo-forum So, there is no way to back up my current mowing configuration, maps, data center, dock location, etc before I move it so that I can restore it next spring? Is it possible to get a second data center to set up at my second location?
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Data centers can be purchased from the Yarbo store. At least in the US.
I think the biggest issue is that when you “reinstall data center” in the app it wipes the current and any saved maps. You could absolutely buy another data center and remap at each location each year. Once public NTRIP is available, this should be far easier. However, you could open a support ticket and see if there’s anything they could offer as an interim solution. If they could save both maps to the cloud, it might be possible.
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Yeah, I know I can buy one, the question is more about how my account will behave if I spin up a new one with the old one still online or how it will behave when I try to switch back next spring.
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Probably going to do that. Remapping at one location would be take a full day or more of effort by the time I get it dialed in again, probably much more time than I’d spend just shoveling snow over the winter. Not as much fun, but time is valuable.
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Hi there,
I’ve discussed this with our field service engineer, and I’m sorry to say that the map can’t be restored in this case. If you’d like to purchase a second data center, you can do so through our official store.
Data Center – Yarbo
Thank you for your understanding.
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