Please give us the option to set a starting point manually, as you see on my map, yarbo starts next to the mapped area, goes down the hole pathway, and the drives up the hill to the green point, that’s around 5 minutes wasted, where it could either start at the end of the pathway or as soon as it enters the mapped area.
Is it only me or is over 8 hours a little long for 1600m²?
@Deixi - I’ve been curious how Yarbo determines its start points. I made a new Area yesterday but I didn’t start mapping that new Area where it has the green indicator, nor did I end the Area creation there. It must be calculated as part of the mowing algorithm.
You have a Pathway going right to that Area, so the rover doesn’t have to go all the way around the horn, you’re right about that. It looks to be calculating its mowing path that way.
I’ve just started with the mower and only know the “usual” speeder-uppers – don’t use the big overlap, turn up the speed, find the most efficient pattern to mow, whatever. The grass-saving special multi-point turns take a while, but I can’t see doing a tank turn. I don’t know if the U-turn churns too much grass or if it’d be faster than the special turns. Have you played with any of this stuff?
Anyway, my mow was about 485 sq.m. (5210 sq.ft.) and took about 1.4 hours. I did a quick calculation, and does it mean yours “should be” about 4.7 hours and not the 8 if we’re talking linear math here? I wonder if there are some settings that could knock time off the estimate.
Strangely it does not use the short pathway, although I created it for that specific area, it chooses to use the long one on the intersection of the 3 areas.
Im using the 10cm overlap, as it is mowing on a quite steep slope (20-25°l, the drift is to big for a smaller overlap.
I had to decrease speed. One step down, because with normal speed it had to correct too often on the slope.
Since posting the initial post, it stopped once because of track slippage, didn’t get a notification on my phone, so found it by suprice stuck on the first round.
Someone on the FB Groups is dealing with a slippery slope. It looks like Yarbo may need to correct a little better if your mowing pattern runs horizontally with the slope, something I think we as humans correct for if we’re pushing a mower along that same path.
The person on FB is going to look into handling the slope vertically – straight up – by setting the Area mowing angle so he’ll go up and down the slope (assuming Parallel pattern) and having 0 Rotation angle. He’s not really thrilled, as he likes to vary his cutting pattern angle, but maybe it’s an OK compromise for now.
A thought…Maybe that stubby path that goes directly to the Area isn’t working? Could it have missed “by just a tiny bit”? Or have you already seen it work in the past? A way to check it could be to have no Work Plan running and park the rover in that Area over somewhere near that Pathway, then hit Recharge. If it goes all the way around the horn, maybe re-map that stubby Pathway?
Tried exactly that, the amount of turns increases drastically and it needs to do a turn on a slope where it’s slipping a lot. On the downhill side it is flat but that is my nice lawn, and I don’t won’t it to do a turn every ½m.
The stubby path worked as long the other two areas weren’t mapped, it started with adding the other to maps. I could certainly try to remap the stubby path.
EDIT: @Ken your math was right, it took yarbo 4,5 hours to complete the mow.
Thank you for your feedback! Currently, the starting point is automatically calculated based on the algorithm, and it is designed to be the most optimized starting point according to the calculation results. We have passed your suggestion to our R&D department for consideration and will keep you updated if we decide to release this feature. We appreciate your input!
Yea, mine always starts at the back of my property and by bedtime it’s up near the house. I would rather start it in the morning in the front and then just let it mow all night in the back, where I can’t hear it.
You can create several maps, then in the work plan you can move the maps in the order you want to mow first. For instance, I devided my backbyard into three maps, I mapped out the furthest back yard first, then the front left side of the yard, then the front right side of the yard. I wanted the front left side map to mow first. Once I included all three maps in my work plan, I clicked on the edit button & on the right are three horizontal lines, you can slide those lines up and down to move the maps in the order you want yarbo to mow. I moved the front left map so it mowed first, moved the front right map to mow second and the back map to mow last.
You get just one Map. You likely mean Areas. Using separate Areas with a variety of redundant Pathways and ordering the Areas differently in multiple Work Plans can change the Pathways taken, which could help lessen the same tracks being driven repeatedly, not a bad thing (Yarbo is working on that).
I believe the OP was asking about the start point within an Area, which is calculated and cannot be changed at the moment.
I’m with ya on this one… I hate that it draws lines across your lawn when starting a work area. The algorithm should be able to calculate a route with a starting point and an ending point.
I really wish that we were able to choose the starting point because it makes a difference on the hill when Yarbo does its little Yarbo dance before it starts the work plan. It takes off down the hill and then it messes up the GPS as to where it’s located on the map
The second thing I’d like corrected is for it to take the perimeter instead of cutting across the nice clean lines in the yard
@msinewe - See “Yarbo should try to follow pattern lines …” here: Suggestion and Feature Requests - Yarbo Forum
Yea, but then it wears down the turf around your perimeter.
edge a no go zone ever so slightly into the area where you want it to start and see if that changes the start location. Alternatively, edge it at the start point. You can use a dead end to clean up the missed grass (or a trimmer). Doesn’t need to be much, just a small templated one, you can push the excess outside the area boundary.
@brysach2 - Unfortunately, yes, you have to pick your poison sometimes, at least until Yarbo perfects their long-range laser anti-gravity mower.
Wait, am I allowed to talk about that?
I have a non-fancy lawn, but I’m starting to tire of the tracks, mostly from a couple of Pathways and a few Deadends, so I’m doing some Deadends only weekly, and I’m mowing everything else only as needed, once or twice a week when it’s “shaggy.” I’m trying some hacks to see if I can vary the Pathways until Yarbo gives us that capability at some point. I’ll pass along what I figure out to the Yarbo Users and Community FB Group.
Oh, IIRC, Yarbo said they’d be introducing a 0 perimeter pass mode, so maybe that will help in some respects.
Co-founder Ken K. has hinted that something pretty massive is in the works in terms of navigation. He won’t show his cards, so we’ll have to wait.
Throw a bucket or two “in the way” to influence navigation. Might be worth a try…
