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So my Lymow One Plus can be controlled via Bluetooth but only if I am in Bluetooth range. This really sucks because if I am at home in WA and it gets stuck I am screwed and have to call a neighbor down in Texas to go move it for me. I went down there last week with a plan to correct that problem.

The Solution

I had a couple of old android phones and I bought one more for 17 bucks at Wally world. I removed all the sim cards and just set these phones up on my wifi and Bluetooth paired them to the mower. All phones are set to stay awake at all times, I just set that in Developer options. One phone lives on a window sill at one end of the house, one out in the greenhouse at the other end of the house, about 40 feet away from the house, and one lives in a park bench out in the front yard near the road.

The phone in the house and the one in the greenhouse are plugged into power at all times and the one in the park bench is plugged into a game camera battery box with a solar panel I used a step down converter (see first pic) to get down to 5v and it is in a waterproof box and inside the bench.

All phones are running an app called AnyDesk and I can connect to them over the internet from home, or wherever I am with my tablet also running AnyDesk.

When the robot gets stuck or lost or whatever I use my phone to connect to it over the internet and open the cameras so that I can see where it is and what it is looking at. Then I use my tablet to connect to the closest AnyDesk phone and bring up the bluetooth remote screen and I can drive the mower to a better location or get it unstuck or whatever.

It's a pretty sweet setup so far. I am heading back down there this weekend to tweak it a bit. One of the problems that has arisen is that the battery box ran out of power, I need to move it to a sunnier spot.

This is a work in progress.

So my Lymow One Plus can be controlled via Bluetooth but only if I am in Bluetooth range. This really sucks because if I am at home in WA and it gets stuck I am screwed and have to call a neighbor down in Texas to go move it for me. I went down there last week with a plan to correct that problem. [The Solution](https://poal.co/static/images/c89482c0e0e2c282.jpg) I had a couple of old android phones and I bought one more for 17 bucks at Wally world. I removed all the sim cards and just set these phones up on my wifi and Bluetooth paired them to the mower. All phones are set to stay awake at all times, I just set that in Developer options. One phone lives on a window sill at one end of the house, one out in the greenhouse at the other end of the house, about 40 feet away from the house, and one lives in a park bench out in the front yard near the road. The phone in the house and the one in the greenhouse are plugged into power at all times and the one in the park bench is plugged into [a game camera battery box with a solar panel](https://poal.co/static/images/3e3efeecc80b9f32.jpg) I used a step down converter (see first pic) to get down to 5v and it is in a waterproof box and inside the bench. All phones are running an app called AnyDesk and I can connect to them over the internet from home, or wherever I am with my tablet also running AnyDesk. When the robot gets stuck or lost or whatever I use my phone to connect to it over the internet and open the cameras so that I can see where it is and what it is looking at. Then I use my tablet to connect to the closest AnyDesk phone and bring up the bluetooth remote screen and I can drive the mower to a better location or get it unstuck or whatever. It's a pretty sweet setup so far. I am heading back down there this weekend to tweak it a bit. One of the problems that has arisen is that the battery box ran out of power, I need to move it to a sunnier spot. This is a work in progress.
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That's a clever solution. I like it. Nice job! The potato already mentioned some security stuff but that could be something to look into later.

It could be worth having a super low data plan on one of the phones that can hotspot then bind all of the phones to it in the event that network is down but cell is up.

There are some automation tools you can setup on all of them that would detect the wifi going down then one going into hotspot mode and the others connecting to it.

You need backups for backups ;)

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That's an interesting thought. They are too far away from each other to talk directly though. They are all near the edge of the wifi in different sections of the property.

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Well, that can be fixed too. You already know how to put them into Dev mode and such.

They could have some extra hardware for LoRA or something and have a local mesh that works even if WiFi does not. I like thinking about stuff like this. It's fun.

We also have a lot of smart people here too. I bet someone else might jump in on this.

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There was also a lot of going into the operating system via USB and adding and removing coding (Grok led the way on that) to get everything to work smoothly.

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Cool solution. But I cringed when you said Anydesk. That is as insecure as windows 95.

Try rust desk (nothing to do with rust) and even your own server first.

Or just run one of the solutions I mentioned and then “vpn” into the local network. Then connect “local”. Block the connections at firewall for either app.

99% perfect must worried about security.

Read in the holes in anydeath.

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I tried Rust desk. It would not do what I needed to do. I don't remember the exact problem. I think it would not run on Android or something. I looked into a bunch of options and the AnyDesk worked the best for my needs I have the phones locked down and the AnyDesk cannot access any of the system or file settings. Anyway, I'm not housing any military secrets or anything. I'm not worried about it. Not yet anyway. Don't be jumping up and down on my bubble.

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Till your mowers run over a jewish baby, they search your social foot print, then you fucked!

Also they can use those devices for bot farms, ddos, etc.

Not saying change, but knowing the risk lets one pivot.

Also. Robot mowers need are piss tols. With fidy round dr umms.