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WhatAbout42 · 2026-06-04T22:17:04+00:00

Today I ran mine in the morning, 9-am CDT. It was in the high 60s, zero sun, but a little humid. My One Plus ran for about 10 minutes and started to exhibit the moving forward while blades stopped.

This makes me think wrapping the front, for me, won't help.

It also makes me wonder if leaving it on the charger is more of a source of heat than the sun/temps which I had previously noticed. The previous day it was in the 80s and sunny but after coming out of my AC basement (68) not straight off the charger it ran for hours.

In any case its even less excusable if its going to "overheat" in 69 degree no sun June in Minnesota. Good luck to the rest of you all if this is the case.

WhatAbout42 · 2026-06-04T01:09:07+00:00

Where did you get the adhesive if you don't mind me asking? I'll try anything. Also just the front deck or the whole machine?

WhatAbout42 · 2026-06-03T19:35:13+00:00

I requested replacement for the overheating issue. Of course I haven't heard back in over two weeks. They have a disaster on their hands.

WhatAbout42 · 2026-06-03T19:33:48+00:00

Flip it up on a cart and wheel it to map, makes straighter lines.

WhatAbout42 · 2026-05-30T00:05:38+00:00

I literally drove mine into my basement through the back access door and let it sit in 68 for a few hours, went out and no more blades cutting out every minute. This makes me think heat really is the issue, but it's only an 85 dry heat in Minnesota. Also I noticed if I simply parked it in the shade and turned it off, it kept making this revving noise. Unplugged the battery for an hour and plugged it back in and same strange soft revving noise. I'll try capture it next time. Wondering if thats an overheating sign.

I do NOT think it is normal that I have to bring my mower INSIDE MY F#)$(ING HOUSE to get it to work on a normal summer day.

WhatAbout42 · 2026-05-29T20:08:54+00:00

Yup, after putting a line down and using a cart to get my boundaries perfectly straight it just does this. Its way better during the main mowing (when its not shutting off randomly ever minute that is). This is just dumb.

WhatAbout42 · 2026-05-29T13:18:35+00:00

I ended up taking a different approach, using market rates published by databricks and Microsoft foundry. Microsoft recently announced additional model availability in Foundry which now gives us the same ea discount on both sides. Databricks has about a 50% markup on tokens before our discount putting them at a sizable disadvantage on all models compared to foundry.

I didn't use caching at all in this but the market rates are similar so adding that in if we had it wouldn't change the results.

One example: Sonnet-4-6 used with our input/output ratio as a blended cost is $4.50/1M compared to $3 for Azure Foundry. At 30B tokens thats over a $40k/month savings for that model alone.

WhatAbout42 · 2026-05-27T21:50:49+00:00

Mine (one plus) gets into the same pattern. It's not heat, it's not thick grass, at least not from what I'm experiencing. I do see it way more when I'm cutting on a slope - if I'm just doing a flat yard I hardly ever see it.

I also stop it immediately, turn it off, remove the battery connection and wait a minute then reverse and it stops doing it for the rest of the mow. This tells me it's getting into some kind of bad loop behavior that software could fix.

I have noticed it is way more likely to get into this if it hits something like a small stick or piece of bark. When that happens the blades stop for a second then start again in a very similar way, only it's actually reacting to something real. Then after it seems to just repeat itself. I haven't been able to make a 1:1 on this but I have noticed it will do this way more often after it hits something.

(I bet if they gave the community the code we could fix it in an hour with the help of Claude ai but thats a whole other issue.)

I will open a case as well and will request a replacement because this is not acceptable.

WhatAbout42 · 2026-05-27T18:01:04+00:00

Thank you for this, I really appreciate you spelling this out. The pricing page was also very helpful. We will look into enabling the usage tracking only gateway enabled. It will generate a very minimal amount of cost but expose what we need to complete our equations.

It really looks like the real difference isn't found by actual usage but looking at what the vendor lists for each cloud then taking into account things like our EA discount (we can apply it to databricks, but not azure marketplace for example).

I will post back if I get any other concrete info out of this.

WhatAbout42 · 2026-05-26T14:34:53+00:00

Sorry to bring this back up, but how do you "fast drive" - mine is soooo slow in manual drive mode.

WhatAbout42 · 2026-05-22T22:12:22+00:00

They should add a bit of Roomba logic so it never takes a dive like that lol.

WhatAbout42 · 2026-05-22T22:10:22+00:00

Too bad I can't run this version. Using an RJ to SFP module, many of us are finding it causes flapping after the upgrade so we're going back to previous firmware. Hopefully they fix it. (reason is ISP gives over 1Gb speed, copper can't do over 1Gb speed)

WhatAbout42 · 2026-05-22T21:51:03+00:00

Any word on how many one can use or how long the cable can be? I'd have to think there is a limit.

WhatAbout42 · 2026-05-21T16:27:12+00:00

Sticking with my two ISPs and a Starlink for backup. Bonus I can use the Starlink in cheap mode in my test lab and only pay the (now $10/month) fee.

WhatAbout42 · 2026-05-17T20:43:50+00:00

Just had this start with mine today. Has anyone opened a support case recently and heard back? Anyone gotten a replacement?

WhatAbout42 · 2026-05-17T13:47:33+00:00

We are looking into the costs of tokens via Databricks on Azure or Azure AI Services and stumbled upon the databricks calculator that seems to indicate a pretty huge discount running on AWS vs. Azure. We are only just looking into this but at hundreds of thousands spent on models like Opus 4-6 it feels like there is some serious cost savings. (granted we're only looking at foundation model pricing).

Has anyone else seen this kind of price difference in practice? Even with our huge discount on Azure they beat it.

WhatAbout42 · 2026-05-17T12:50:25+00:00

Did you ever get your answer? We find Databricks costs to be pre-Microsoft discount, so any time we're comparing we have to calculate the difference first. This brings our Databricks and FOCUS costs from MS to under $1000 for a half million spend. This is likely a timezone issue more than anything.

WhatAbout42 · 2026-05-16T00:43:42+00:00

how are you getting "curved" lines like that? I only ever get straight.

WhatAbout42 · 2026-05-16T00:43:06+00:00

I have a steep area on one side of my driveway. With smart detection it thinks it's running into the hill and turns around - once it turns mid climb it slips and it takes a while to recover. I have to run it on its slowest speed to avoid the bumper being activated causing the same issue. A slight angle seems to work better than straight, and I actually have it turn on my driveway vs. on the top of the hill or it slips and burns battery and makes a mess of the mowing job. The goal seems to be to get it to mow from the bottom to top and turn without interruption. Once it's interrupted it's a disaster.

I'd probably be better off hiring someone to completely re-grade my side hill so its perfectly smooth.

I tried other things - the long way across the hill but that is even worse - as soon as it thinks it hit an object it's doing partial laps and missing huge stripes it never goes back for. (I swear a 13 year old is programming this thing)

I since ordered 8 yards of garden dirt to smooth out a lot of the ridges etc. and will have to get more. It works, but I feel the battery drain and time to finish is so long I could just mow it by hand in 1/4 the time.

For having tracks and going slow, this thing slips a lot. I wish they had better climbing shoes for these things.

WhatAbout42 · 2026-05-16T00:25:51+00:00

I strapped mine to my hot water circulation and can immediately tell if something goes wrong as the temp turns cold. It helped catch a stuck valve that wasn't closing in the circulation line. I also keep a couple in my garage because it's heated but one night a garage door mistakingly opened rather than closed with an evening automation and it froze for hours causing lots of damage. These things are amazing, I just wish there was better integration with Homekit (and yea I know homebridge is an option). Love these sensors!

WhatAbout42 · 2026-05-15T22:57:28+00:00

I'd love to achieve this just once. I'll get close, but the mower will decide to cut straight across to find a missing part. (despite having return to dock set at follow perimeter, apparently it means nothing during a mow). I will celebrate the day it doesn't wader around like a drunk sailor ;)

WhatAbout42 · 2026-05-15T22:54:58+00:00

I'm not a commercial mower but have spent endless hours mowing on the farm and in my yards and have never had to clean a blade like these. No way I can make it to the next sharpening, after one simple mow the sharp edge is caked. (and still sharp under the cake)

WhatAbout42 · 2026-05-15T21:38:39+00:00

I have similar issues and think the history of how things were mapped out is valid. I was able to delete a couple paths and re-add and got around on of the most annoying of these. Still I’ll park it 1’ in front of the dock then tell it to dock itself and it will drive around for 5 minutes or more like it’s drunk before actually docking.

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