u/silveronetwo

I had great success for a week or two mowing with V4.2.0 with no problems. Suddenly after this upgrade the mower needs to be rescued a dozen or more times per mow with no alerts to indicate the mower is just sitting there for hours "Upgrading Network RTK" in several spots in the yard.

I'd guess before that it might've been okay without being able to phone home for 30 seconds or so while now the timeout is more like 5-10 seconds. Is there anything that can be done about this to keep NRTK viable? I don't want to switch to antenna because it won't cover my whole yard.

Added some pretty stout "No Vision" zones and was able to cut my uncuttable zones under pine trees and heavy shadows today. When trying to cut these areas with previous firmware, the mower would go into super-slow mode and eventually throw a "Trapped" error in multiple locations in this zone.

Everything went fantastic and the only real issue was that I didn't have a no-go zone programmed in the middle of the area where a tree with low hanging branches lives. The mower tried to climb said tree but didn't get stuck, and I caught it soon enough to go back and program a new no-go zone there.

I can't speak for improvements in trimming and cut-to-edge yet, but I'm impressed with the sparse grass performance now.

As for the Advanced Mode Camera sensitivity setting, on previous firmware yesterday in marginal conditions I got at least 3 "Camera Needs Cleaning" returns to base. Today there were none after the firmware upgrade.

So far this looks like the firmware update I've needed. Hope it works out for all of you.

ETA:

Mowing times in the vision affected areas are hugely better now for me with the new firmware. My 0.35 acre backyard zone with 150 feet of tree line used to take 11 hours to mow and 6 charges - about 7 hours charging. 18 hours total. My first cut with the new firmware it took just over 7 hours to mow and 3 charges taking 3.5 hours for less than 11 hours total. 40% less time is a great thing.

Not sure how long Worx has been using the Powershare battery in their robot mowers, but curious how many cycles the battery will be good for.

I have 20 charge cycles twice a week for my large yard and am already over 360 charge cycles since early May.

From what I understand, this battery chemistry is generally good for 300-800 cycles, but I'm sure that's variable based on how deeply the battery charges and discharges in firmware settings.

Wondering how much experience is out there in the real world!

Playing around with the Vision Cloud 4WD today. I've added and am testing some wheel brushes on the rear wheels. After a rain the wheels are staying crud and mud free.

These are home grown, but I believe Worx has something similar available. Will probably print them in a different color (red or orange) to "highlight" them, but so far they're doing their job and holding up.

https://preview.redd.it/supa2jzrsx5h1.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec84d5e8b573f34dbe468b681c0d5fded65c0629

Enjoying the community and am relatively new to Landroid and a Vision Cloud WR344.

Just wondering if anyone has seen this problem.

Mower would go to a status of "Enhancing Visual Features" and then turn off and error with no code after some time just stating "Action Required at Mower". During Enhancing Visual Features, mower would just wander seemingly randomly.

After a couple of unsuccessful attempts to pull battery and reboot, I took mower for cleaning and checks. Had the Cut to Edge cutting disc bound up and never got errors unrelated to E03. Just the odd wandering around Enhancing Visual Features for 20 minutes or so before powering itself down.

Not sure if freeing up the small cutting disc had anything to do with the other errors, but it seems suspect. Mower is back out and cutting now and has completed one battery cycle, so maybe that was it.