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.
