Looks like a good portion of the midwest is getting a decent amount of snow over the next 24 hours. Is everyone ready with their Yarbos?
I told my wife it’s funny, but I’ll be disappointed if I wake up in the morning and there isn’t any meaningful snow waiting for Yarbo to (hopefully) take care of. Been waiting a long time to see the Yarbo snowblower in action. Hope it doesn’t let me down.
With my luck, the power board will short out as soon as it drives off the dock…
Certainly hope not. I know what you mean. I am not ready but all my forecasts are rain at this point.
Still waiting on the smoked core replacement. But with my luck FedEx won’t be able to deliver it because of 30 feet of snow.
Hope your replacement shows up soon!
I wish. Mine won’t create an area. I do all the work to create an area for our driveway and the area is always 2.4 square feet when I finish
That’s a new one on me.
That’s a new one for me. Sorry to hear it
Do you have good solid GPS signal when mapping? My best guess right now is that you’re experiencing an issue related to bad GPS quality.
Open the Yarbo app, tap on your Yarbo and press and hold the GPS icon. What does the status there show? Also in if you can post your Diagnostics screen (remove the two GNNA areas as that is your location) That may help us troubleshoot.
I think I am ready. I moved the dock a few days ago, so I had to delete all paths and redo them. Now every once in a while I get the no chute direction even though all paths and areas have a direction. All my grass areas are marked lawn mower but I guess that is not good enough for this robot to figure out. I can’t believe I have to mark all parts of my yard for snow blowing direction.
Other part is, suppose to be a 6 to 14 inch storm, but it has now snowed for 10 hours and I think we might be up to 2 inches, maybe……
Sometimes the weather guys just want to hype stuff to get views…..
Yea, I think the weather reports tend to oversell it to scare more people into watching the news.
They’re saying we’ll get around 10 inches here. I bet we’ll end up with closer to 4.
So we ended up getting about 4 inches last night, and I am currently nice and warm sitting in the house watching Yarbo clear the driveway for the first time!!
The snow is super duper wet and heavy (great for snowballs, bad for snowblowers) but Yarbo is working like a champ regardless. I had to set it on slow speed and turbo auger, and of course the guards were removed.
Knock on wood, but so far the auger and discharge haven’t clogged once. It’s got plenty of traction, and the torque sensing works well - It slows down nicely when the auger is overloaded, and backs up and kind of tries to ram through large piles of snow. It also hasn’t gotten stuck yet either, which is also impressive.
It’s not going to finish the job on one battery due to the thick heavy snow, but that’s perfectly fine! I’ll let it do its thing, and in the end, my driveway will hopefully be nice and clear!
First impressions: Yarbo snowblower is awesome. Just what I was hoping for!
I thought I was ready, but the bot got confused and spun in circles until it high-centered itself. I changed that section from part of an area to a path that I can widen manually. It went fine on the next run. Just checked, it was 5 in of snow, lots of drifting.
Welp, I guess nothing’s ever perfect.
Went to do the driveway apron and ended up popping the sheer pins on one side. Not entirely sure how that happened, but oh well.
Thank goodness my garage is heated. Guess what I’m about to go and do…
Get some more on order ASAP!
Would you mind sharing a screenshot of your map and what settings you used? I’m assuming rectangle pattern?
I may get to remap my driveway AGAIN…..
Sure. I’ll post a screenshot shortly. I’m currently iterating the apron clean up design to try and improve reliability….
Here’s the preview of my driveway. I just used the standard parallel path with one direction of snow blowing so I could get nice straight lines.
The path planner is screwy if you have more than one throwing direction which doesn’t make sense, but whatever. lol
The apron at the end of my driveway was a challenge. I knew in advance it was gonna be troublesome, so I took my time in setting it up during the summer. Here’s what I came up with:
Ok. Blue line is the main driveway zone. Notice it doesn’t include the apron.
The purple is a series of sidewalks I created to try and tackle the mounds of snow from the street snow plows. They are all assigned to a special apron only work plan. Yarbo is set to drive straight down each ‘sidewalk’, then back up, then start the next sidewalk, and so on. Each sidewalk has an appropriate snow throwing direction set. This setup also makes it impossible for Yarbo to accidentally throw snow at traffic in the street because it doesn’t turn around.
When the sidewalks are complete, the final task in the apron work plan is to complete a parallel path run of the purple area to clean things up.
Hope this all makes sense.
Do your apron with a zigzag about this big, with the throw directly away from the road (bottom of map).
Or, do it that size with the slope pattern, “downhill” will be toward the road (bottom of map), and chute directions allowed on left and right. If the core has trouble turning around after each lane, use the zigzag apron instead.
If you have a garage door to worry about, you’ll make one there as well. You might zigzag the street apron, and slope the garage. Whatever your solution, the aprons get done first.
The rest of the driveway, whatever you do, the end of that area can overlap cleanly into an apron such that there’s no snow to throw when it turns around. Then it won’t matter what the chute is doing in those areas.
