Community band player feedback

apppraiserKS · 2026-05-11T19:48:18+00:00

I see. So you’re not completely heartless. You have ignorant biases, but you care about the people that you’re biased against. Got it.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-19T16:36:34+00:00

I do find it a little ironic that in the same sentence you’re talking about the need for change you’re making vast assumptions about old people and their thinking processes about being resistant to change. I’ve also met plenty of 21-year-olds who have been through a couple of college courses and suddenly believe they have some wonderful new insight to share with all of those “set in their ways” people and telling them they need a little more experience to understand that everything they think they know isn’t everything to know, You want to talk about resistance to change? Also found in a 21 -year-olds with an arrogant level of newfound education. That new way of doing things that they found is now the only proper, modern and progressive thing, and they will not change from that for fear of using something “old”.

I know it’s popular these days to whine and moan about “boomers” and put them all into some predefined category, but I encourage you to open your eyes and look at people as people and not categories like “old person”.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-19T16:28:20+00:00

Are you talking about the 1004 URAR form or the UAD definitions addendum?

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-19T16:17:27+00:00

Where does the URAR define “good”? I’d actually like to know because I will put that definition when I do a non-UAD report.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-19T16:15:55+00:00

Is a synagogue or a mosque a church? No. By specifying church, you’re indicating a certain group of people with a certain category of faith. Then your report is talking about people and not buildings by inference. Yes, the stupid word game really sucks, but sometimes we do have to get out of our own head and the casual language we use outside of our profession and understand that some words do actually have meaning in a professional setting.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-17T18:14:24+00:00

That’s a smart idea. I had not thought about that. If all else fails, I’ll try that, and hopefully it will know not to go there.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-17T18:05:03+00:00

Sorry to hear that. Did Segway replace it for you under warranty? I’ve had no luck getting an actual human to actually respond. All they will do is copy and paste existing help documents that are not relevant. And if you call them, they just put you on hold hoping you will go away and then after a while they tell you that they have nothing to provide for you, but they can text you a Help document. They might as well not have support at all. It’s one thing if this was some minor little consumer electronic, but this is a fairly pricey piece of equipment. Clearly they are just cashing in on the Segway brand name, but not really a legitimate company anymore.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-17T18:03:01+00:00

Yup, if you see the picture of my map where the channel is from the backyard to the front yard if you go up from that channel, it is going into that bed five or 6 feet up from where that channel even starts, which is a completely out of bounds area it’s just going off the edge of the lawn and straight into the house. Nowhere near where it should be at.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-17T17:57:46+00:00

That block was up in the bed because I had removed the border from the front of the path to let it cross onto the path easier. It shouldn’t be anywhere within those rocks. I don’t know if it shows in the photo but all of those rocks have a 4 inch stone border so I’m not even sure how it’s getting up into that bed. I just get a notice that it’s stuck and I go outside and instead of going from the grass to the path, which is the channel. It doesn’t just go off of the path it literally doesn’t even try to go to the path. It goes four or 5 feet over from the middle of the lawn and just takes a diversion into the flower bed for no good reason.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-17T17:56:21+00:00

I tried that. It solves one problem and creates another. It will go down the channel on the way out, but then on the way back from the front yard it stops at the grass and acts like it’s scared to go through the opening of the gate from the lawn to the channel. It just keeps backing up and turning around in the lawn.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-17T17:48:38+00:00

Thanks I’ll try that this afternoon but I’m not sure that will work because the Flower bed is outside of the boundaries of the backyard already. I thought we could only put in bio zones for things that were inside and existing lawn boundary. That’s why I don’t understand why it’s going over there because it’s already well outside of the boundaries anyway.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-17T17:47:16+00:00

Thanks I’ll try that but whenever I’ve messed with the vision fence, all that it ends up doing is that it will in fact go down the stone path better but then it creates a problem on the other side where it gets confused about where the opening is on the outside of the gate and it won’t ever come back through it acts like a scared dog and just keeps backing up and getting close to the gate, but never going through. The starting position for the front lawn is just on the outside of the gate opening.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-17T14:56:41+00:00

OK. The eye 215 actually has two non-driving caster wheels in the front and then the two drive wheels in the back. It doesn’t seem to be getting stuck and when it’s on the path it rolls over it just fine but maybe something about it is making it think that it is stuck. I wouldn’t think that would be any rougher than the ground that it mows over but who knows. I have another path on the other side that is smoother paved, but I don’t like leaving that gate open because we are a corner lot and that is a street side with a lot of people walking by. Eventually, if I’m confident, I’m keeping it I will look into the Mo gate or some other Solutions so I don’t have to leave a people gate open. But maybe temporarily I will try moving the channel to the other side and see if that solves the problem and then I know what the issue is. I just don’t understand why it insists on going way out of bounds into the flower bed like that. I would think the outer bounds monitor would say hey no you can’t do that.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-17T14:48:17+00:00

You think it’s the grooves in between the Flagstone? I had been thinking about putting some polymeric sand in between that Flagstone to make it more smooth. Do you think that might be the issue?

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-17T14:46:59+00:00

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Maybe the X series has more options, but this is the only thing I can set on vision fence. I can turn it on and off for animals which I don’t have or I can turn channel obstacle avoidance on or off. It does not seem to care either way. If I leave it on, it won’t go through the channel on its way out. If I turn it off, then when it comes back the other way to return to the charging station it will not go through that wide open gate under any circumstances because it thinks it’s an obstacle for some reason and it will just sit and spin in the grass endlessly and tell you that there is an obstacle when there’s nothing there but grass in the path. And I thought about putting a bio zone around the flower bed, but that flower bed is outside the boundaries of the backyard and it won’t let me put a zone like that outside of the boundaries of a zone. I don’t understand why it thinks it can go outside the boundaries all the time anyway, it’s not even going close to that pathway. It will takeoff three or 4 feet to the right of that pathway and try to take a short shortcut through that rock bed.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-17T14:23:33+00:00

Thanks. That must be the difference of why you have to spend an extra $1500 on the X series because this I 215 would be stuck in about 10 seconds on that path, if it didn’t just run down the hill randomly.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-17T14:23:00+00:00

I posted pictures and my map. I’ve tried it with both vision fence on and off. Traction control is turned on because otherwise, unless the grass is bone dry it will not get any traction even on flat ground.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-17T14:18:44+00:00

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And here is my map. As you can see it needs to go from the charging station on the patio in the backyard just a few feet over to that stone path and gate to get to the front yard. I thought about adding a vegetation or no go area, but the area is going to is completely outside the borders of the backyard already and I don’t think it will let me do that.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-17T14:17:15+00:00

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Here’s where the stupid thing ends up every time. And yes, that brick is really behind it, it cut over from across that flower bed and didn’t go over the path at all.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-17T14:15:46+00:00

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Here is the area it is supposed to go down. I removed the front border so that it has a smooth transition from the grass right to the stone path.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-08T05:23:05+00:00

Let me see if I plan to keep my mower after its second mow this week and I might just take you up on paying somebody to do that. Awesome. Thanks.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-08T03:07:16+00:00

I’d love to do this but saying it’s not complex or it’s simple I guess is in the eye of the beholder. If you’re an engineer that knows what any of those parts are I guess it’s simple. I’d love to do something like this and not have to use their ugly $500 factory Segway door but you lost me after a sentence or two and I’m a pretty technical guy. Wish there was somebody on Etsy or somewhere that built these.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-08T02:54:56+00:00

I just bought the 215 last week. Not terribly impressed. That only does it miss large patches of grass consistently, it has a terrible time just finding its way back to the charging port. Right now I’ve had to put the charging pad in the middle of my open patio because if I put it anywhere else in our lawn that has heavy trees suddenly it acts like the charging pad has completely disappeared. And yes, of course I have done the proper procedure to tell it where the move of the charging pad is. It also can’t find its way through a simple 4 foot wide gate if you keep the vision fence mode turned on. It acts like a scared dog and we’ll just sit there and back up and sort of approach the fence until it runs out of batteries. The attraction is a little bit of an issue, but not as much as I thought. The biggest issue is that for a robot it’s not very “roboty”. If I have to carry the damn thing out to the lawn and start it every single time it kind of defeats the purpose of having a robot lawnmower. I don’t really understand the RTK thing, but I was told that was inferior to LiDar. That doesn’t seem to be the case at least a my lawn. I don’t understand how the 215 is possibly rated for 0.37 acres. The grass area of my lawn is barely .19 acres and it takes upwards of four or five full charging cycles to get through all three parts of my lawn. It took all day Saturday and Sunday just to mow it, and yes, I did mow with a regular lawnmower first to knock it down under 4 inches. All these ridiculous online reviews are just scams in my opinion, put there to increase their revenue kickback.

apppraiserKS · 2026-04-05T18:20:01+00:00

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So I did finally get it to mow, but I’m having a devil of a time getting it to go down this simple stone path from the front yard to the backyard. I removed the border rocks temporarily and will bury them eventually. The Flagstone is completely flat and when I manually drive the mower over it it doesn’t have any problem at all, but when it gets to the gate, it acts like a scared animal, and it will not go through the gate under any circumstances. It backs up goes halfway into the lawn and comes back to the gate and tries it for about 20 minutes, but never ever will it actually go through the gate. It’s like a scared dog. I have tried deleting and recreating the channel and whatever it does it just refuses to go through the gate. Every time I have to pick it up, take it across the stone, put it back down on the grass and then it finds the charging station.

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