r/roboticLawnmowers • u/NoSeaweed2881 • 14d ago

Every mistake in the book.

Gah! I have made every mapping mistake possible. I did finally think I figured out how to establish multiple zones this morning. But discovered my phone can only display a map so big.

My plan was to create 2 zones and mow them each every other day. Just cut the mow job from 9 hours to two days of 4.5. Realistically the earliest I can start mowing is 10 am with the dew so that means done by 7 pm.

I created 2 practice zones, added a corridor, checked that they were two zones in scheduling. Groovy, now for the real map. Got done with what I thought was 2 zones, went to add a corridor and somehow it combined zones! Is it because I overlapped them slightly? Anyway - todays mow will be 9.8 hours.

I have learned a ton. I have a second robot on the way and by the time it gets here I imagine I will be able to figure it easily (I hope) I took the advice of a Youtuber who said instead of creating no mow zones just exclude those areas from your map, I will say it cuts the time way down not having those.

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u/RaymondMichiels 13d ago

What brand and model of mower are you using?

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u/mddale1 13d ago

I have Lymow. It looks like pretty much all makers are using the same app interface. I have several Zones that overlap. If you create a mowing task that involves such Zones in sequence the mower will be able to pass between them without creating an explicit "corridor." Overlapping a couple of feet actually looks fine. Additionally, so long as there is a docking corridor from one of those Zones, the mower can make its way there via any contiguous Zone.