I often get yarbo claiming “track slippage” and needs me to intervene, but when I go into the remote, I can drive yarbo out with no effort. It’s like the auto mode “gives up” with little effort. At least some setting telling Yarbo how hard I want it to try to “unslip” would’ve nice to give it more permission to “try harder” getting unstuck
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Yeah I often find I can just back straight up a foot or less and it’s fine.
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Exactly. For me, it’s usually as simple as…
1). Raise the auger
2). Back Yarbo up
Seems pretty simple and straightforward to be implemented into Yarbo’s unsticking strategy.
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Yea that’s what always confuses me. Sometimes it will push and push to get the last 6 inches of a snow mound and be fine. Then it slips for a split second on open ground and acts like it broke its leg until I open the app and nudge it.
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The newer firmware seems better in some regards, but when it does get stuck it seems to almost always end up high centered
. Seems like they have it lifting higher before executing maneuvers now and they’ll even shut down the auger when waiting for the chute to change directions sometimes.
That’s annoying
I agree. It may need to back up, left the augur, then continue
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My tracks slippage is 90% at the perimeter-unless it snags an ice spot/shelf I think doing a double perimeter pass helps immensely. Then make all your turns within the confines of the 2 perimeter passes. This way you aren’t always dragging the front across unplowed areas. Once those tracks start digging it takes a long time to stop before it’s starts its unstuck algorithm.
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It tries reeeaaaallllyyyyy hard sometimes on the new FW…It got high centered on the snow from the van tracks(wife came home early due to white out), it was spinning tracks for almost 10 minutes, and many times it gets unstuck…but not always. Here’s another one
And sometimes it gives up like shown below… I thought it might have been the person detection but it wasn’t…app said track slippage. I was able to drive it manually to bust the last ~12” to the end of the sidewalk path.
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Hi there, thanks for your feedback. We’ve received similar input from other users as well, and we’ve made some optimizations to the track slippage detection and the snow blower’s escape logic in the next release. We hope these improvements will help it perform better and reduce the need for manual intervention.
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When the new software is released, will we have detail oriented release notes that list all changes so we know what to look for and what to re-test?
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This is on: 3.11.61
I appreciate the firmware release announcement details of course, but I don’t think they extend into what I would call proper release notes with detail around each change and fix. Still, better than nothing! 
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Yeah I’m still waiting for a description on how the chute decides to aim…It’s a lot better on the newer firmware but still does a couple odd things
Most of that is possibly trying to avoid throwing at detected vehicles and or people. Try turning off car detection and see if it is more predictable.
Any suggestions for the mower? My new one slips frequently and gets stuck on slightly wet, muddy grass slope.
Add some weight to the rear of the core. Ideally strap it to the handles. Some have added to the tow hitch, but that can interfere with rear obstacle avoidance and cause zero turns when it’s trying to back up.
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I thought they didn’t have rear obstacle avoidance enabled yet? Part of the tow mode upgrade? Or just not for S1(loves to run into the snowbanks backwards and get high centered )?