Small bug in mowing speed when trimmer feeds

Suggestion and Feature Requests
1

I have the trimmer module on the M1 with the 2024 core. While trimming, at the feeding points the yarbo attempts to accelerate to ‘normal mowing speed’ vs its ‘trimmer’ speed. This seems to be because when the string trimmer stops, the mower isn’t ‘trimming’ anymore and should be at the mowing speed.

End result is a couple extra inches of missed string-trimmer’d edging do in part to this ‘lurch’ forward.

FR: Can we slow DOWN on string trimmer feeding and not accelerate? or at the least, add a cooldown/ramp-up from the ‘no trimmer’ to ‘trimmer’ mowing speeds?

Reproducible: 10/10 for me. Video attached.

2

I think they should stop movement when it feeds line, I saw the issue first 5 minutes I played with it. I don’ t think mine lurches ahead, I will have to watch it closer. Thanks for the heads up on this.

3

I haven’t noticed the lurching either, but it’s rather obvious that the robot should STOP DRIVING while the trimmer is doing the line feed thing.

You really have to wonder why that obvious thing didn’t occur to the programmer when they were designing it.

@bryan.wheeler Did this scenario ever come up during initial PPP testing?

4

Yes it was brought up and I recently reiterated this again. I’ve also seen what the OP is describing as well.

5

Same

6

Thanks for sharing your detailed observation and suggestion.

We appreciate you taking the time to describe the behavior you noticed and provide the reproducibility details. I’ll share this feedback with our product team for further review and consideration.

Thanks again for helping us improve the Yarbo experience!