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ClemensElflein / OpenMower

Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots!
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Work with bad WiFi coverage ? #73

Open JBaptisme33 opened 1 year ago

JBaptisme33 commented 1 year ago

Hi,

Thanls for hard work. Mower work, and Vermut kit permit a fast mounting scenario :) Is there a way to provide a working mode with a low / bad wifi garden coverage ? Indeed, in some place, WiFi coverage is ok, but in many another, coverage is pretty bad / nonworking. Can we imagine a "best effort" mode with no rtk correction ? (RTK correction should be re-done when mower re-enter into wifi covered zone)

Regards

ClemensElflein commented 8 months ago

Currently, the software will continue for some time after losing WIFI (and therefore RTK fix). The issue is that accuracy is so low that it might crash into stuff or exit the lawn entirely when it is close to obstacles or the lawn boundary.

I kind of like the idea though, since in theory we could implement something like "if no RTK fix, don't drive closer than 2m to a lawn boundary or obstacle", which will allow the mower to continue in "safe" areas.