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Any other sensors?

My Lymow works flawlessly covering many acres staying in bounds with 0.1 to 0.2 accuracy and mowing practically autonomously. Except when it rains. When it rains, it returns to the dock runs it‘s battery to zero while sitting and waiting desperately for “Hal to open the cargo doors” and flip on charging.

I’ve done the rain sensor delete which seems to have some positive effect, and I make sure the top of the mower sensor is dry. Any other ideas? How does it know it’s wet?

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u/TheYellowSpade — 1 day ago
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Rain Mowing

cutting the rain sensor solved my main problem with the lymow; namely if it started too soon and dew or rain was present it would end in a dead battery state requiring outside intervention.

u/TheYellowSpade — 5 days ago
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A Tale of Modern Marvels and Mechanical Mischief!

GATHER ’ROUND, GATHER ’ROUND! Come witness the most CONFOUNDING conundrum of our agricultural age! Behold — the LYMOW MOWER, a mechanical marvel of our modern era, brought low by the most DELICATE of all electronic afflictions: THE OVERLY SENSITIVE RAIN SENSOR!

Yes friends, this tiny tyrant of a sensor — this fussy, finicky, FRAGILE little fellow — will halt your mowing miracle at the slightest provocation! A passing cloud! A mournful sigh of morning dew! The mere PRESENCE of a humid human being walking past! “FAIL!” it cries! “FAIL!” it wails! And there sits your robotic servant, idle as a banker on Sunday!

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Reach into that very same Styrofoam shipping coffin your magnificent Lymow arrived in! That humble packing peanut palace holds the SECRET INGREDIENT, hiding in plain sight all along!

THE PROCEDURE, my friends:

🔧 One — Take thy mighty earth screw (the ground anchor, blessed be its threads) and lay it ACROSS the sacred sensor slot to measure the gap!

📏 Two — From the Styrofoam sarcophagus, carve thee a chunk! A perfect, plump, parallelogram of polystyrene — sized to fit SNUGLY into that picky sensor’s lair!

💊 Three — Procure thy dehumidification packets (those silica sentinels of dryness!) and place them within!

✨ Four — Wedge that foam fortress into place and BEHOLD —

THE LIGHT TURNS GREEN! THE MOTORS HUM! THE GRASS TREMBLES IN ANTICIPATION!

That’s right folks — for the price of ZERO DOLLARS and NO CENTS, using nothing but the trash that came in the box, you’ve cured what the engineers could not! The rain sensor weeps no more! It sees only DRYNESS, only CLARITY, only the GLORIOUS PURPOSE of a mower born to MOW!

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u/TheYellowSpade — 16 days ago
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What is the recommended approach for when the mower interacts with a “rained out“ charging station?

it’s been repeatable: the mower mows without issue, drives to the station, reports that the station is unreachable, and throws an error. Because the robot is already docked to the station, it reports a stuck bumper. If you clear this, it will just sit and wait for an indeterminant amount of time.

OK, so I have an update:

After letting it dry for six hours, all the while showing 0% and disconnected, touching nothing else, I pressed the power button. 

99% charged and ready to go! Sweet, the sensor must have dried and activated charging.

 Here’s my qualm: when you plug in an iPhone and it throws an error (overheating for instance) once the error clears and it begins to charge, it boots back up and reconnects. Can we have the mower do this?

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u/TheYellowSpade — 22 days ago
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If the foam that the Lymow shipped in, was branded and colored dark gray with thoughtful handhold locations/design, it would make excellent thunderstorm shelter that allows charging while protected.

u/TheYellowSpade — 24 days ago