I’m seeing some of these issues after the firmware update, but thankfully no where near the frequency described by “rrr”. Like “rrr”, my snowblower functioned pretty much perfectly all of last season and this season until the latest firmware update. Immediately after the update, I began noticing:
(1) Occasional left or front camera disconnect alerts, which at least for me, is brand new since the update. Additionally, the cameras on the snowblower now produce a very dark picture when compared against those on the core. A restart eliminates this for a little while, but it always returns.
(2) The video stream from all cameras (in SmartVision) sometimes noticeably lags now and cameras are often out of sync with each other (ie; the front camera will show movement several seconds after the core has stopped whereas the rear camera shows no movement immediately upon stopping and the other two cameras are often somewhere in between. Those symptoms are NOT consistent to each camera though, meaning they are not consistently out of sync by the same amount. Sometimes, even sound is out of sync (ie; motor noise continues in the app view for several seconds after the unit has stopped). Restarting the Yarbo core and/or the app itself seems to eliminate these issues for a while. They occur randomly, but seem more frequent if I am using SmartVision for a prolonged period (which always worked perfectly before the last update).
(3) Intermittent ability to properly dock on the charger. Even though the pad is completely clean of snow/ice and in great condition, the core sometimes gives up trying to dock/charge after several minutes of not finding the correct ‘spot’. Again, a core restart appears to alleviate this.
(4) Even though no loss of any signal (including GPS) is indicated, the core will often pause for up to 20 seconds in the middle of a run before continuing. During this time, the auger stops. Sometimes the auger stops at random other times as well. No pattern to this that I can determine yet. It is an intermittent occurrence, but it never happened before.
(5) Never had an overcurrent alert before but they happen with some regularity now even though there is no obstruction, clog or other obvious reason for them. Mine only take place when the core is stopped/paused (for any reason, including a manual command to pause) and then restarted. To me, it almost appears as if the extremely cold weather requires far more current than usual to start the motor, and that generates the alert. However, weather temps are within the Yarbo’s specified operating range.
(6) As several users have noted elsewhere, battery capacity has definitely been noticeably reduced after the update, but I suspect that is coincidence and actually the result of unseasonably cold temps lately. I’m keeping an eye on this and when it (hopefully) warms up a bit, I’ll know for sure.
For the most part, all symptoms above are more annoyances than critical, “work stoppages”, and I can live with them until the next firmware update (hopefully) fixes them. For me, the most critical is the lagging/out of sync video streams in SmartVision because I use that quite frequently now to manually clear large amounts of snow immediately adjacent to vehicles (which Yarbo has done a great job at avoiding even when they are clearly within its work zone).
I don’t know if this was a pre-existing issue or not because I did not previously use SmartVision to the extend that I now do. However, every time the controller functionality is chosen while in SmartVision, the upper half of the screen (which typically displays the front and year cameras) gets extremely dim. So dim you cannot really see the video unless you are in a dimly lit room. This obviously makes it very difficult to perform remote controlled snowblowing.
Hope this info helps YARBO analyze and resolve the issues. I can make my system available any time Yarbo would like to remote into it and collect data.
