As mentioned in another thread, Yarbo calculates the area with over 8 hours, it did finish it in 4,5 hours.
It goes back to the charging station as planned, only in the app it is still shows mowing
Right now it is doing another run on the map, the app is lagging about half the percentage shown. That fits the real time it takes to mow.
Also I found it at around 1.7% stopped with track slippage. Didn’t get a message in the app. Had to stop the job and restarted it at 2%. After a few minutes I found that the unit had left the border by more than 2m.
I followed, I think, @Ken or @bryan.wheeler advice and let the rover forget wifi connection, it seems to rely on HaLow. GPS is sometimes going in and out. I’m getting new antennas after the roll over. Maybe there is something going on with them, from the outside they seem to be ok.
Haven’t got the 3.8.4 update yet, had the unit on wifi tonight and the last few days, only deleted it today before starting the new job.
Did replacing the Stubby Pathway let Yarbo jump over to the Area more quickly? Curious about that.
Your 4.5 hour ACTUAL time matches the calculation I did for your Area based on the time of my first mow. So that’s good. It’s not good that the estimate in the app is that far off, though.
Notifications…yeah, Yarbo’s got issues there. They seem to be glacially slow at getting done. The Release Notes indicated the latest App now has three very important ones - pet/person detection, battery low, and “I’m stuck,” at least for the blower.
For the unfinished Work Plan, could it be that your battery was just at that 20% threshold and went back to charge, leaving a just tiny bit to do for that Work Plan?
Anyway, I’d like to see how you get along with the updates to the App and the Firmware.
I received a track slippage push notification last night so the new updates seem to have that covered now and it was much appreciated. I think the antennas are definitely an issue here for the lag in communications or it could be bluetooth or something. The app can get real laggy on bluetooth and if there are damaged antennas, well… @Deixi what does your work plan look like? Do you have multiple areas set in it? That could account for the extra time. I think it also calculates the recharge time in there too, at least that’s what I’ve seen others say. Haven’t confirmed that myself.
@Ken I deleted the stuby pathway and recreated it. But yarbo keeps ignoring it. It keeps using the long one.
My return to charge SOC is set to 15%, so that was correct.
Yarbo is actually doing it’s thing quite correct, it’s only that the app is lagging behind a lot!
@bryan.wheeler I’m not sure about the antennas being the main problem, because all 3 other areas are calculated correctly and the app is on spot.
There is something going on with this specific large area.
I have a single schedule for every of the 4 areas. So there is no recharge necessary for completion.
Edit: Yarbo just parked itself on the charger, everything went well, but the app thinks it is at 86% of the job, I can’t get it to end the job either.
I’m curious when it will recognize that it is actually finished, and let me get back in to the main menu of the mower
Stubby Pathway: If you drive the rover in the big Area over to a few feet away from that stubby Pathway and hit Recharge, will the rover take that stubby Pathway and go recharge? Or does it go around the horn?
Another thing I was thinking of: If you set the mowing angle to 180 degrees, does it change the start/end location but keep the same pattern angle? Would that improve the “around the horn” that you’re seeing?
Incomplete Work Plan: It looks like it didn’t do the stuff in the middle of the spiral, but you said it actually did? Yeah, maybe the app hasn’t caught up or something, which is very strange to me.
You “should” be able to get back into the main area of the mower by clicking the gear at the top, the back arrow, or the back button on the phone. You also have the wrench icon there and the settings icon. “Something” should work! I get back to the main page of the rover all the time while a Work Plan is executing, then I can easily get back into the Work Plan screen.
When the Work Plan completes for me, the bottom of the screen switches over to an “End recharging” option as the rover drives over to the Docking Station. Yours doesn’t do that? Will restarting the App update the status? That’d be something you can tell Support. The only time I think I’ve seen something like this is the battery % liked to stay at 100% when I docked after using a bit of juice, but eventually I noticed it updated.
Just to be 100% sure, your Docking Station is enabled, correct? I’m sure it is, but I thought I’d ask.
So after going through all the stuff you guys mentioned, I changed all the area settings, 3 perimeters, diamond pattern, 10cm overlap.
And voila, it now uses the stubby path and calculates it with a reasonable time.
Regarding “incomplete worklplan” it did all the area correctly, and then got back to charging, but did not respond until, the “calculated time” was up.
very strange. Curious if you put it all back if it would do it again. Can’t remember if you have a ticket on this but please open one if not. Especially if you can reproduce this.
I am glad to hear that there’s at least some progress, @Deixi – I hope what you have come up with to get around Yarbo’s Stubby-phobia is working acceptably and can be your long term solution.
So it ended the Work Plan after the Estimated Time elapsed? Wow, that is interesting. I wonder why they would do it that way? Seems wrong. Ohhhhh, perhaps it’s a new bug in their changes to speed up the processing. Hmmm…yeah, like Bryan said, if you’re able to repro some of this, Support might like a crack at it.
We’re sorry for the inconvenience caused. This issue should be resolved with the firmware 3.8.4 update. Have you had the chance to update yet? Please let us know if the update has fixed the issue. If the problem persists, we’ll need to investigate further. Thanks for your patience!
I received the update, the issue seems to be fixed after I changed the area settings and it recalculated the plan. Will update when the area gets mowed again.
Update for the west slope area, yarbo is calculation the time correctly, but with 10cm overlap the result is quite surprising, there are precisely 20cm strips, that it keeps left standing. Is this per design when choosing diamond pattern? I don’t know really, seems odd.
Regarding the issue you’ve mentioned, this is an abnormal phenomenon. It is not related to the diamond pattern. When the diamond pattern is selected, the route simply rotates 60 degrees before each schedule, and it does not cause the kind of results you’ve described.
We will need to investigate this further, and we have created a support ticket (#77124)for you. Our support team will reach out to you via the email address associated with your Yarbo account.
Update after another mow in my quite steep area, after the latest update and hotfix, unfortunately, there is no change in yarbo ls mowing patterns. On the contrary, the stripes seem to get a little wider. As you can see in the photos, on the flat area it does a really good job, but as soon as it is getting stepper it misses its path, but it is quite consistently. To be honest it looks nice from afar, but it shouldn’t really be that way.
Mine does the exact same thing when mowing on a slope, it seems to me that it slips down every time that it turns and does’t get lined up correctly. When you watch it in the app you can even see it slip down in the direction of the hill every time it turns. When i set the overlap to max it helps some, but there is still a small section that it misses. Don’t have this issue when mowing flat.
8 inch overlap and mowing frequently at different angles (by at least 45-90 degrees) helps get the missed grass. Hopefully the next firmware release will address this issue better.
Right now things are pretty fluid and features are subject to removal at last minute. I think until things stabilize a bit more they are reluctant to get people’s hopes up too much. I think this will get better soon enough. This is all just my opinion and assumptions.
Yeah… but essentially you have to mow it twice…needs a two pass setting like for the snow blower (or is that a setting somewhere?) Where I am even mowing a few days apart in the summer is enough for the grass to grow where you can see the spots it misses with one pass.
