I for one welcome our lawn bot overlords.
I for one welcome our lawn bot overlords.
I got the Lymow One Plus.
I've been playing with it for a couple of weeks now and I am ready to share what I have learned.
My initial thoughts on it are "Has an engineer ever spent a single day with this thing???" For example, the discharge chute is constantly plugged up. I took off the little rubber flapper door and that helped slightly. I took off part of the blade guard under the deck and that helped a lot, then I cut off the little bar that went across the bottom of the chute and that did the trick, no more clogging up.
It's SO quirky, and dumb as a box of hammers.
It takes a ton of training it to your yard to get it working good. It takes a lot of training your yard as well, trimming everything, leveling around bigger tree roots. picking up everything.
When it's working good it is the most amazing thing ever. When it is being a retard it is so frustrating I just want to take a shotgun to it. It can't see white very well so it runs right into white cars and white buildings. I have to park where it can't go by and I had to map around the buildings. I've had to make "No Go" zones around some trees and bushes because it will drive right into them even though it has 2 friggin cameras on the front of it.
It runs off of RTK GPS stuff and this VSLAM video mapping (That does not seem to work at all). It connects to my wifi and it has a 4g connection. I can also connect to it with bluetooth to drive it around like a remote control car. That only works locally though so you have to be right there. No way to control it over the internet which is a shame because usually when it gets hung up on something it only needs to turn like 3 degrees and it would be fine, it's just not smart enough to do so. I think I have a workaround for that though. Apparently you can pair multiple BT devices to it. So my plan is to put a couple of old phones or tablets in key areas that are just hooked to my WIFI and the bluetooth on with the Lymow app always running. Then I can access these devices from over the internet with some kind of screen share think and then use their bluetooth to control it. I think I need to just put one at each end of the house and one in a further out building and I will be able to connect to it over 90 percent of the yard.
I am having a hard time keeping a good RTK signal to it because of all my trees so I am going to raise up the RTK antenna so that it is above then entire roof line and hopefully that will help.
Anyway, there is lots to say about this thing so fire away with any questions and I will also keep you updated on my progression with it.
One of the best things I have learned is that about 90% of the time it stops due to some error, I can just clear it and tell it to resume and it figures its shit out and gets going again.
I got the Lymow One Plus.
I've been playing with it for a couple of weeks now and I am ready to share what I have learned.
My initial thoughts on it are "Has an engineer ever spent a single day with this thing???" For example, the discharge chute is constantly plugged up. I took off the little rubber flapper door and that helped slightly. I took off part of the blade guard under the deck and that helped a lot, then I cut off the little bar that went across the bottom of the chute and that did the trick, no more clogging up.
It's SO quirky, and dumb as a box of hammers.
It takes a ton of training it to your yard to get it working good. It takes a lot of training your yard as well, trimming everything, leveling around bigger tree roots. picking up everything.
When it's working good it is the most amazing thing ever. When it is being a retard it is so frustrating I just want to take a shotgun to it. It can't see white very well so it runs right into white cars and white buildings. I have to park where it can't go by and I had to map around the buildings. I've had to make "No Go" zones around some trees and bushes because it will drive right into them even though it has 2 friggin cameras on the front of it.
It runs off of RTK GPS stuff and this VSLAM video mapping (That does not seem to work at all). It connects to my wifi and it has a 4g connection. I can also connect to it with bluetooth to drive it around like a remote control car. That only works locally though so you have to be right there. No way to control it over the internet which is a shame because usually when it gets hung up on something it only needs to turn like 3 degrees and it would be fine, it's just not smart enough to do so. I think I have a workaround for that though. Apparently you can pair multiple BT devices to it. So my plan is to put a couple of old phones or tablets in key areas that are just hooked to my WIFI and the bluetooth on with the Lymow app always running. Then I can access these devices from over the internet with some kind of screen share think and then use their bluetooth to control it. I think I need to just put one at each end of the house and one in a further out building and I will be able to connect to it over 90 percent of the yard.
I am having a hard time keeping a good RTK signal to it because of all my trees so I am going to raise up the RTK antenna so that it is above then entire roof line and hopefully that will help.
Anyway, there is lots to say about this thing so fire away with any questions and I will also keep you updated on my progression with it.
[The charging base has these QR looking codes to help it line up and park, Sometimes it will be right there, looking RIGHT AT IT and it will error out and say it can't find it.](https://poal.co/static/images/870f5b979767d69c.jpg)
One of the best things I have learned is that about 90% of the time it stops due to some error, I can just clear it and tell it to resume and it figures its shit out and gets going again.
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