First of all, I supported Yarbo for a long time and tried to defend them in my family. Even bought the upgrade for 2024, against my wifes will.
Today yarbo startet to mow for the 2nd time in it’s short life. After the 10 minutes it craweld up backwards against a wall and fliped over?
The antennas are wrecked and this POS is useless, with all its sensors, how is that even possible… I’m so pissed to have sunken so much money into this crap.
We are truly sorry to hear about the issues you’re facing with your Yarbo mower, and we understand your frustration. We’ve created a support ticket for you (#75389), and our support team will be reaching out to you via email soon to assist. They will help diagnose the issue and send replacements for the broken antennas.
In the meantime, we recommend leaving some buffer space along the wall to give Yarbo more room to maneuver, which can help prevent similar incidents.
We apologize again for the inconvenience, and please know that we are continually working to improve our product to avoid such situations in the future.
Thank you for your understanding and patience.
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@Deixi - Something I’ve been hearing is that object detection is not turned on when Yarbo is mowing a perimeter. That could have been what happened in your case, or it was turning or trying to get unstuck, something like that. Regardless, it shouldn’t happen, and it’s great to see Yarbo’s response to try to take care of this. Changes are coming to object detection, I hear, and I think we’re all looking forward to that. I hope those changes help situations like this for all of us.
There was a 30cm distance between the path and the wall, 20cm from me and 10cm from narrowing the border in the App.
How much distance do you recommend?
I don’t get why it is turning around in this place anyways, there is a streight line in the map.
There may be an opportunity here to use accelerometers on the core (assuming they are in there) to monitor angle of attack in both directions to prevent rollover/tipping. This would be a good safety improvement for hills, etc. as well. If the angle goes over X (40 degrees?) then stop and reverse, or just stop and throw an alarm and notification to go save it 
By going into the wall, yarbo already left it’s border! It should not be able to touch the wall in the first place!
@Yarbo-Forum there is already a ticket #73052
Edit:
Video link https://photos.app.goo.gl/vLRnSmvEVCaEnwoH8
https://photos.app.goo.gl/oy4LGqSoTmKkoBXp6
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Alex, what’s the option in the settings about rollover/tilt and lift? I just checked mine and they’re off.
I whole heartedly agree with this. It should not ever back up outside the mapped area border. However, it currently will go about half a core length over the line. In areas where you have hazards or issues with this, place no go zones along the border to create that extra buffer space without having to remap. Also be aware that currently the rear cameras do not enabled for obstacle avoidance. So it is blind when it is backing up. You can compensate for the bugger space by using dead ends around the perimeter in the buffer area, but you would have to disable or remove any no go zones when running it. With some tweaking you can work around the current limitations and it will work well for you once you understand the nuances and its limitations. They are actively working on improving it.
Thank you for your input and suggestions.
Where do you get all that info that it goes half a core length over the border and that the rear cameras are not working at the moment? Shouldn’t it be the developers highest priorities for the last year, or more, that the borders are respected and that the hardware at place is used to its best capabilities?
To be honest I don’t really see it as my duty to tweak my borders to Yarbo current limitations. Setting nogo zones in areas where there do not need to be such, is cumbersome and not a good solution, as an enduser it is not my responsibility to understand the nuances and limitations of a product, as long as I use that specific product within its borders and capabilities. It is not mentioned in the app or any instruction where mentioned limitations are, nor is a lack of vision from the rear cameras metioned.
I know that the team is working on it, but what have they done in the last 2 years since the kickstarter campaign? This is the start of the 2nd mowing season, after all the delays they start to fix the mowing related bugs now?
Since really starting with Yarbo M1 about 4 weeks ago, the only area it is capable of finishing is my little lawn area, where it is flat. On all the other maps it is struggling, either with drift because of the steepness or going back and forth because of correcting its calculated way. The unit has constant slipping problems because the core with the mower attached is much too head-heavy, when going backwards it alway lifts up the back and diggs itself in with the slipping tracks.
I send video and pictures to yarbo, I suggested adding a counterweight, but all I got was the canned response what a good idea, thanks for the suggestion, will review, and so on, in the meantime still have my slipping problem…
You see I’m really willing to work with the guys, but yarbos main focus lies in the US. Communitication with the support team here in Europe, if even existing, is so delayed, although I know the try to do their best, and make things better.
EDIT: Yarbo going downhill and lifting it’s rear going back up. You see the lighter markings in the gras from the first perimeter. That is where it should go! The overlap distance ist 10cm, you can see it is about half a meter off, and really struggling downhill. A lot of grass is left untouched.
Doesn’t exist (yet) as far as I know… was a suggestion to the developers
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I am a tester and spend a lot of time in the forums trying to help users. I have learned from others experiences and my own. The company has a huge task ahead of them with all the modules and all the features. There are some basic things that still need to be fleshed out. Thankfully most all of that is just software related. It will get better over time. Before purchasing, I did my research and asked a ton of questions in the live streams before the 2024 ever was complete. So, I knew I was in for a bit of a ride. I also knew what it would and wouldn’t do. It has improved a lot in a very short amount of time. The focus for development seems to be on each seasonal module. So, I expect that the current focus is the mower. I believe they are working hard on making it work better and get a lot of the back log sorted out.
With regard to your slipping problem. Users have added weights to the tow hitch or strapped weights to the handles of the core. I have seen that many had a lot of success in doing so. Maybe give it a shot. It doesn’t take much. I think 14 lbs is more than adequate.
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