Are you just trying to be contrarian?? Do you really think I made the video to be deceptive?
The tree was in a mowing no-go zone, so Yarbo wouldn’t have tried to avoid it anyway. It just planned around it. I cut the video (and sped it up) so people aren’t watching 10 minutes of blowing.
And to be clear, I never said my video exhibited any obstacle avoidance.
No I would say you are the one being a contrarian. Countless people have issues and I was giving a real world example to a person asking how it actually works. When called out that I was wrong, and giving even examples from Yarbo themselves calling out documented deficiencies of obstacle avoidance. So now you post a video on a discussion of if obstacle avoidance works with “And YES, the obstacle avoidance was working” infers you are demonstrating exactly that in your video.
I guess the hundreds of people on this forum calling out the deficiencies and real world failures, the appearance of thousands across the various social media channels doing the same simply amount to contrarians in your world.
I am sharing my experience about Blower I purchased and I am not interested in your opinion about my experience and recommendations to make it crash. If you have experience share it and people will read it instead of placing sh1t on fan in each post.
Did share it. Classy reply btw. The fact remains, scheduling doesn’t even exist and obstacle avoidance is either non-existent or can not be trusted. Both documented facts.
You stated that “it does not have ANY obstacle avoidance in reverse”. I read that to be an all inclusive statement. I was just pointing out that the core does. It’s a relatively new enablement and sure, there are bound to be limitations and bugs to the initial release. If Yarbo stated that rear obstacle avoidance is not enabled for the blower in a ticket, that would be great information for them to include on the Wiki, if it’s not there already. Sounds like it’s already in the app as a warning, which is where it’s really important for the user to immediately see. So, did you put NGZ’s around the trees as was recommended? I’m guessing you didn’t and can confirm that it indeed does back into trees and other things. Thanks for confirming that.
Regarding my other “contribution”, believe what you want. I can tell you that I see lots of people complain that it doesn’t always automatically go back out when it hits 80% (or whatever the set recharge level is.) It’s a recurring bug. It doesn’t happen all the time, but it does happen. I’ve personally seen it once or twice. It is definitely “abnormal” as Yarbo stated.
I spend my time here and all over the Yarbo forums trying to help people. While I may not have ever used the blower personally, I can assure you that I have seen it in use a lot and spoken to lots of people about it and any problems they had with it. Do I get things wrong? Sure, I am human. But the negativity and cutting people down who are trying to help you or share their experiences isn’t helpful.
It seems like you are looking for reasons to return your purchase. If you want a turn key solution that requires no time and effort, this and other robotic mowers (with maybe the exception of the wire perimeter ones) are probably not for you. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. This is a bleeding edge product. It is the only Modular Yard Robot out there. There are going to be bugs and delayed releases on features. They only have so many resources to work on certain things at a time. I am ok with this. I knew what I was getting into when I preordered over a year ago. I did my research and asked tons of questions of their support and on the live streams. They told me what would be working on delivery and what was still being worked on. That delta has shrunk a lot since then and continues to evolve.
Since then, I spend a lot of my personal time helping with troubleshooting bugs, helping other users, and testing all in an effort to make my investment in the product better and the community stronger. I rather enjoyed it, up until your post. I hope you find a resolution that is satisfactory for you.
Again, I was just giving real world actual use feedback from someone that has actually used it. The entire point was if you want this with a primary use case of the blower it would be a mistake to purchase. I am done with this forum.
Hi All,
New to Yarbo and recently purchased the Mower Pro and Blower together. Since I had to wait the entire mowing season for the Pro Mower, I started with the Blower first. As a new user to the product it is clear the Blower module is new and lacking features compared to the mower. I can see this now after my Mower Pro arrived and I set it up.
Here are a few observations about the blower I have noticed.
All this being said, I am excited in the next few months to put the Blower though some paces. I have many trees around and usually get 25 lawn bags I have to deal with and have high hopes this will cut the time down dramatically for me.
Hope this helps you all with the Blower module. I think it is worth it but definitely can use some software updates.
I’m curious why you need to make the areas smaller? If Yarbo doesn’t get finished with a work area before the battery drops to 20%, it will dock and recharge and continue the workplace when the battery charges to 80% (those are default values that you can change). I might be missing something specific to your needs.
Are you aware you can edit the work area and change the direction to blow the leaves without deleting?
Work plans can be executed without scheduling. I keep a “clean up” work plan around that I add and remove work areas into for just this occasion.
Hi there, thanks for sharing your experience with the blower. We understand that the software for the blower still has room for improvement.
Regarding your feedback:
The split feature will be optimized in future updates — we’ve already received requests for this feature.
For the other software-related suggestions, I’ll make sure to share them with our product team for consideration.
We really appreciate your input and patience as we continue to improve!