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Up at 6.50 after a fairly quiet night. Again with weird, highly realistic dreams. Still coughing.
The grass is too wet to send the robot mower out for a first spin. The grass cuttings would stick like glue to the undersides of the mower.
I had already noticed that the robot isn't recognized by the security cameras as "interesting." Yet they can see a cat in the far distance and will always record it as a possible security issue.
The neighbour's cat caught a mouse yesterday and was chomping on it in the drive. The security cameras saw the cat and recorded its movements for later Playback. While the robot was ten times the size on the computer monitor but was only recorded for later viewing. Simply because of the presence of the cat. I use individual memory cards for Playback. Recording 24x365 involves expensive equipment and large hard drives. Is this lack of interest in mowers an AI recognition algorithm issue in the camera software?
11.00 71F/22C After a nap I carried a 2m high stepladder along the drive. To clip the overhanging branches. The robot mower was trundling up and down but we avoided each other. I have taller stepladders but I am already breathless and sweating. The view along the drive is already clearer.
11.15 The sun has broken through briefly. I have lowered the mower's grass cutting height to 50mm. [2"] I have also trimmed my beard.
12.45 Sunny and more breezy. I just deleted the original map. To let the mower discover the drive all over again. I have cleared a lot of the obstructions along the edges. Which existed before the first map was saved to the mower's memory. The mower seemed inhibited from crossing the bare gravel strips to reach these grassy verges. It also seemed to strongly favour this end of the drive. Quite timid in pushing to the far end.
I am now using my Windows PC via the Phone Link app to my Android phone. So I can use the PC screen and keyboard in the Eufy mower app. No more peering at the microscopic text on the tiny screen! I can instantly recall the Eufy app via the icon on the Taskbar at the bottom of the PC screen. All the wile monitoring the robot's movements. Live on my 28" HD monitor. Beside my main 32" 4k monitor via my 4k security cameras. Isn't technology wonderful?'
14.45 75F/24C. I have been back out trimming the verges. Having watched the robot work its way along the edges. It doesn't like overhanging plants and will treat them as valuable. So it turns away and/or goes around. All part of its programming to avoid damage to specimen plants. It's no use just letting trimmings fall. The robot will demand you tidy up!
This is interesting: Overlapping circles are appearing at top right of the security camera display monitor. It is trying to make sense of the robot! Is it worth recording as a potential hazard? Not so far. We shall see. Whoopee! The robot's movements are now registering as interesting. So they are recorded as short videos onto the camera's memory cards.
These Eufy mowers can show what the cameras are seeing. So called Live [view] on the phone or PC screen. It is fun to see where the mower is going and what it sees. Educational too. The reason for its occasional hesitancy is clearly displayed. Often just the arch of an overhanging weed. The log says the mower has had 34 trips, covered 900m^2 in 11 hours. The improvement in the drive is quite amazing.
There are a number of options in the menus. Arias to avoid. Areas where not to cut but may proceed. Another is to treat all areas as lawn. Even where the grass is yellow or there is gravel. I have now chosen that option to see if it helps on the mixed surfaces of the drive.
Next I had to start the really heavy work. Getting the West Lawn into a condition where the robot mower can actually operate. The grass is foolishly high and the ground all bumps and lumps from hundreds of mole hills.
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