Now, now, I do maintain a certain level of decorum, @Joshua.
I am now running into GPS issues while mowing near some thick spruces with a high oak canopy overhead, so kind of a dual-stacked GPS blockage. So I move the Yarbo out into the open, get GPS back, then send it back into battle, sometimes a couple of times. If you can do SmartVision from work, that feature really helps with this, as sometimes all you need to do is drive a few feet.
I just mapped an area under I’d say a medium canopy, and there were no GPS issues. So apparently a lot of this GPS stuff just “depends,” which shouldn’t shock anyone. Ugh…yep, old GPS tech developed years ago in a modern world just doesn’t cut it.
I read somewhere that The Government is looking into ways to improve GPS. By the time that happens, Yarbo will have anti-gravity propulsion and be using lasers. Patrol Mode With Intruder Response will be awesome.
I’ve had zero luck getting that one side mapped. It has high Pine Canopy coverage. I can get part way down the run and then it suddenly says it’s lost the signal. The map will show it actually lost the signal much further back than when it ‘notified me’. At that point I can’t get it to pick up the signal (even driving it out to catch the signal and then back in doesn’t work). It’ll never reconnect at the drop point even if I park on top of it with a weak signal. If, by luck, it has a strong signal it still won’t rejoin where it dropped on the map. I think the reason for this is that it isn’t actually getting a good signal so it doesn’t appear to recognize it’s in the disconnected location.
I need to trim along the following items: solid fence, fence with regular picket gaps, rocks and trees, well-defined edges like Belgian block driveway edging and landscape edging. Also one instance of an AC condenser unit on a slab.
I have the most basic lawn setup. 5k square feet. Backyard and front yard, both separated by a white PVC fence that Yarbo keeps running into, no trees, everything with a paver border and 2 sidewalk strips. Personally, I would prefer a single map since both the mower and trimmer will be running simultaneously.
Wow, it is more specific. But I wanna know what you mean by “it would have to be done in reverse” in example 2. Which direction do you expect the trimmer to go?
This Deadend has the left side of the rover against the rocks and the tree. The Trimmer will be on the right side of the machine.
The rover can (and does under some conditions) mow a Deadend in reverse – by backing up – so it goes butt first, not mower first. Obviously mower first is better so you get a little more mowing closer to the endpoint, but it means the Trimmer is on the wrong side for my example 2.
So…
Yarbo could tell the rover to turn around and reverse in, maybe they’ll make that an option? Maybe they’re going to allow you to specify which side of the Deadend to trim, and you can tell it “left”/“right”/“both”, and it will mow the Deadend in the directions needed? Same options could apply to Pathways, I guess.
If Deadend direction for Trimming needs to be dealt with by We Peeps through how we map the Deadend: I imagine you’d delete and re-map the Deadend so the start point is at the other end so the Trimmer faces where you want. Map two Deadends, one from either direction, if you need both sides trimmed, I guess. But I’m hoping Yarbo has figured this out.
Anyway, that’s what I meant by reverse: Butt first so the Trimmer’s on the correct side.
is looking into ways to improve GPS. By the time that happens, Yarbo will have anti-gravity propulsion and be using lasers. Patrol Mode With Intruder Response will be awesome.