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MortenVinding / Robomow-ESP32

ESP32 based bluetooth Robomow controller
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Compatible WROVER cards #1

Open torroa opened 5 months ago

torroa commented 5 months ago

I have a few WROOM and esp32-pico cards, but this firmware is only supported using a WROVER card. Does anyone know if other cards besides the LOLIN D32 pro cards can be used?

My older RC-model does provide 3.3v from the battery-module. But I haven't seen anyone using those wires to provide power to the esp32 card.

MortenVinding commented 5 months ago

I have a few WROOM and esp32-pico cards, but this firmware is only supported using a WROVER card. Does anyone know if other cards besides the LOLIN D32 pro cards can be used?

I believe it uses the PSRAM of the WROVER module. I didn't have any module with PSRAM so I just played it safe and got the LOLIN D32 module from Aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32883116057.html

My older RC-model does provide 3.3v from the battery-module. But I haven't seen anyone using those wires to provide power to the esp32 card.

3.3volt from the battery module? where? Mine is also a RC (RC304u), my plan is to use the power from the GSM connector (I believe it's battery voltage so needs a steep down converter).

RC series needs to be firmware between 1.79 and 2.029. Mine is 1.88 and the Robomow software claims there is no firmware update for it, so it guess it's the highest for this firmware.

torroa commented 4 months ago

Got a LOLIN card from Ali today and had it connected to my RC400 with 1.83 firmware. Everything seems to be working, including the sensors in HA. The status seems to still be mostly in German.

Active bluetooth connection draws a lot of battery power, but it should not make too much of a difference when mowing, or docked.

The on-board wifi-antenna is not great, but a 2.4 GHz internal antenna from an old laptop should do the trick.

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MortenVinding commented 4 months ago

Got a LOLIN card from Ali today and had it connected to my RC400 with 1.83 firmware. Everything seems to be working, including the sensors in HA. The status seems to still be mostly in German.

Just updated the binary file with a few more translations (including the one in your screenshot). Let me know if you run in to more, especially if you know the correct translation (I'm using google translate, but it's not always easy to figure out what it should be).

Active bluetooth connection draws a lot of battery power, but it should not make too much of a difference when mowing, or docked.

Actually have no idea. I haven't really used it yet since my mower is not running right now (doing some modifications to my garden now).

The on-board wifi-antenna is not great, but a 2.4 GHz internal antenna from an old laptop should do the trick.

How far have you got? My garden is smal and all around the house, I believe the furthers point is about 20-30m from the AP (Unifi long range) in my shed.