u/Midacl

Its been fairly cool in the Midwest so far this summer, but we are getting into the 90s this week. So I sent mine out to cut the backyard yesterday around 9am, it was in the mid 80s already. I checked the camera a few times and I could tell it was actually cutting fairly late into the job. I couldnt see any tall strips when I got home from work either.

Cutting speed was set to normal, and 0.4m/s. I think thats around 1.3f/s? I was in imperial units, but havent switched it back after the last firmware update. I just can't be bothtered to keep changing units after every firmware update.

I think my slower speeds do help on keeping it running in the heat, as well as the thinner grass that we typically have in the midwest. I also did order a spare set of Timken bearings and seals, since failed bearings seems to be one of the causes of overheating motors.

I realized how nice it is to be able to stay ontop of mowing during the hotter weeks in the summer last night, as I looked out my front window while sitting in the AC last night. Now I am just hoping that my luck holds with the Lymo will it work lotto.

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I only have to deal with this when visiting family, but I get frustrated with it evey time....

I always make sure I do not clip the yellow line, and its only a single turn lane, so you do not have to worry about an outside lane hitting you. I then watch cars in my mirrors cut at least the one turn lane, if not both of the turn lanes...

They clearly saw this issue with the north bound ramp on the other side, and moved the turn lanes back a bit. This is clearly on the traffic engineers with their poor line placement.

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Been using the home page a bit more recently, since I have files from multiple projects that I have been working on lately, and its faster to find a recent file than going through the data panel at times.

And now the home page refuses to load lol

I did recently switch hubs to take a screenshot of another part I did, and then switched back, maybe that triggered it?

Anyways trying to use what fusion wants us to use a bit more, and then it just straight up breaks. The Data panel is still my goto for finding stuff most of the time, but I do jump into the home page every now and then.

Solidworks users also pushback with changes every year, and I feel that is a big reason that Solidworks overall feels very stuck in the past with much of its UI and how its tools work. Their userbase hates change.

Autodesk has made several major UI and workflow changes with Fusion in the past, and its always meet with backlash from the community at first. And many of those changes might be a bit rough, or poorly thought out at first. But they do improve them over a few updates.

Dark mode was a little buggy at first, even in beta a lot of the feedback felt ignored, but now its in a pretty good place. I know that was a change people have been asking for, and is not really the same. But does highlight how they focus more on UI fixes for releases after they release it.

The recent version number change doesnt bother me, it does seem a bit more hidden than it used to be. But now that I know its an icon, its easy enough to find and search for past saves. And with the new colab features they are working on, it makes sense that the old way needed to go.

Labeling every single save as a version was a wierd way to handle saves. The old Milestone tool was what should have been, and is now your version number tool. Versions should be when its ready to be released/printed/machined. Then follow-up versions when changes/updates are made, with the next release. I might save a fusion file 20 times before I am even ready to test a single part in that file. The very first test print should not be labeled Version 20, if its really the very first version I am testing.

The part workflow change with parts, assemblies, and Hybrid I am also fine with, and I am now trying to use the assembly mode with final assemblies, mixed with part files and hybrid files depending on what the part is. A bolt for example does not need to be a hybrid file, but a hinge with movement works best as a Hybrid file.

Still not running a set schedule, I just manually send it out when I think it's Good time. Been about every 2-4 days, depending on how the grass looks and if I think about it.

Only had one day that it was being to dumb to mow so far.... Followed by a second dumb day where I saw it crashing into things, smart object detection currently seems to be broken. And the bumper will crash into the same thing 4 times before it goes around.

Overall I'm still happy with my Lymow, but concerned if I ever really need tech support.

I should probably start working on fixing my old riding mower, so I have a backup option if ever needed.

I am not a customer, but I did attempt to become one last winter... Only to be told I would have to pay something like $600 for the line due to the box location and having to go under my neihbors driveway, even though I had a short jumper box next to my driveway... Customer service later told me I could probably be connected to the jumper box, but I decided to wait for better weather.

Anyways, I have been walking my dog almost every day since mid febuary once the weather was back above 25 or so? And have seen several houses with fiber lines strung along trees and open boxes ever since... As far as I can tell, not a single line has been burried yet?

From some quick reading it sounds like they try to claim 1-2 weeks, and that can be the case for some, but then they say it can take up to 90 days? So they want customers to have to avoid damaging a fragile line while doing yardwork for 3 months? And seems like its taking even longer than that in my area?

Seeing those long delays has kept me from reaching back out, I haven't had any issues at all with Xfinity. And their customer service has always been good, and they are pretty quick to send techs out when needed.

Sunday morning I made the mistake of updating my lymow's firmware, then sent it out to mow the backyard.

It kept running into the fence on the perimeter... Then the deck shut off as it tried to re-adjust, and the deck failed to turn back on after that. It also wasnt matching what it was showing on the map in the app, vs where it actually was in my yard. But returned to dock just fine.

Sent it out again, it made it a bit futher, but got stuck under my shed.....

Turned off precise edge mode, tried again, failed again.

Then told it to cut main area first, and it kept driving outside the map into an area I had removed from the map, so I could grow some grass seed... I stood in front it it, and it drove into my foot several times, refusing to give up. So I gave up for the day and sent it back to dock.

Yesterday afternoon while still at work, I decided to send it out and keep an eye on it via the app and its camera at times. It some how reverted to the older map? I let it run anyways... Then watched it ram into my sprinker that is spiked into the ground, 3 or 4 times, thanks smart object detetction....

But it did finish the backyard, and looked like it did a good job.

I sent it out to cut the front yard later that day, when I took my dog for a walk. And it only gave an error when it went to dock after finishing... It drove straight into my house, and the bumper was stuck for a moment... Again thanks smart object detection! Houses are so hard to see!

Noticed that it also lost the update I had made to slightly rotating the docking station, and smoothing out the channel to the docking station.

TLDR: Firmware updates can break map changes.