Tip: What to do when Yarbo sees your Docking Station’s doghouse as a vehicle and Pathway Obstacle Detection kicks in, and the rover fails to go charge
A change in App V3.15.3 / Firmware V3.9.10 means vehicles spotted on a Pathway will cause the rover to pause or return to the Docking Station.
If you have a doghouse on your Docking Station, Yarbo will see that as a vehicle as the rover returns to charge up after the completion of a Work Plan. This vehicle avoidance feature sure does work!
HALT! WHO GOES THERE!
I spotted two ways to deal with this. Choose the one you like better.
- There is an Obstacle Avoidance setting for the Pathway your rover takes to the Docking Station. You can turn that off. Note that this turns off Obstacle Avoidance for that entire Pathway, so if a real vehicle is there somewhere along the way, the rover won’t avoid it.
- You can put a No-vision Zone where the rover will be driving up to the Docking Station, which is what I did. I went a little crazy and put it over the Doghouse as well “just in case.”
