u/WillD33d

My A3000 lidar pro gets stuck pretty often on my St. Augustine lawn. I've set it to the lowest speed and switched the obstacle avoidance setting to "High Grass Environment".

It is able to unstick itself, but apparently it automatically returns to the dock instead of continuing on the area it was working on. Once it gets to the dock, I can tell it to continue, but I seem to be doing this 10 times for 1 area.

I don't see a setting to have it continue on error. Is there any sort of API or way I can automate telling it to continue?

This might be a deal breaker for me.

What's everybody's experience with mapping?

For me, the mobile app makes it difficult to make precise movements. I wish I could tap a button to go a few inches at a time as opposed to dragging.

For sidewalks that are level with the grass, do you map with 1 wheel on the cement or keep it on the grass? I know the edges should be mapped using the non trimmer side.

I've also found it easier to segment large areas before remapping so I don't have to remap everything.

Also, auto mapping seems to be garbage.

Any tips and tricks from anyone else?

Just wanted to add my warranty replacement experience. Our original mattress was a 4" purple about 8 years ago and had it replaced about 4 years ago due to an indentation that formed on my side that exceeded 1". We were using the official purple mattress protector, but there were still some signs of usage. We cleaned it before taking pictures, but didn't go out of our way to make it look brand new. Support gave me no problem and gave me the option to replace or upgrade. We chose to replace with the closest model to our original and they promptly had someone come out to take the old mattress and replace it with the new at the same time.

That was 4 years ago and I again started getting an indentation around where my hips are that exceeded 1". Again, the mattress showed some signs of usage and had been using the official mattress protector. Again, support offered to replace or allow us to upgrade.

Instead of replacing, we chose to pay the $3k extra to upgrade. I forget which model we upgraded to, but it doesn't matter. The main thing that mattered to us was that upgrading resets the warranty whereas a free replacement does not. Since we have used the warranty twice already, it was quite valuable to us.

Hopefully we won't have to replace this one in 4 years again, but at least it's a relatively painless process.

Hope this helps somebody