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mowZILLA

Summary:

this is a software and hardware project to "smart UP" a robomower without using hardwired connections to the robomowers board, sensors or actuators. Just read information from LEDs and Sound / Bussers to log the condition of the robomower and notify the owner about status changes and actions to be carried out.

what it is not:

a way to control or change parameters of the robomower

Robomower hardware

Yardforce 600 ECO this robomower has no bluetooth, wifi or any other connection to tell it's current state, e.g.:

  • Mowing
  • Charging
  • Lifted/tilted
  • ERROR
  • Low battery

In fact, all of this above mentioned states are indicated via LEDs at the cockpit and some of them are followed by a dedicated sound/beep pattern.

here the link to the user manual: https://www.yardforce-tools.com/ProductFiles/fa4b8085-5971-479d-b8ae-45d6835b5a5c.pdf

Cockpit

overview of the buttons and indicator LEDs

The cockpit is devided into 5 zones / funtional areas

  • Zone 1: LED indicators for the machine status
  • Zone 2: Working time setting area
  • Zone 3: Signal setting
  • Zone 4: Locking button
  • Zone 5: Home & Start button.

Focus area is zone 1 with it's indicator LEDs

this LEDs indicate the following status

  • Tilt - Your mower has been lifted during use for some reason

  • Signal - The mower cannot receive the signal sent from the boundary wire

  • Battery - Battery voltage is too low to perform normal mowing

  • Charge - In the process of charging

Environment:

wifi is available for about 50% in the area of our lawn/yard mowZILLA hardware has to be low power and powerd by battery, since it wont be connected to the robomower's battery or charging station

Idea:

Sensing:

use photo electric resistors (sensors) to interpret the LED output lights of the robomowers cockpit use microphone (sensor) to interpret the indications of the sound/beep patterns.

Logging:

log all the events on a device

Connections:

connect to local wifi if available during the different cylces of the robomower

Condition Monitoring Information:

some basic calculations based on status changes, durations, tima of day, or other environmental data / information. These information should then be posted in notifications to the end user to take emidiate actions if necessarry or for the purpose of analysis and further optimization.

Notifications:

send messages to a recepient

  • via email
  • via whatsapp
  • other existing message services that can be looked up on any mobile device (android / apple)

Notifications should include:

  • Date & Time
  • Category
  • Normal, Warning, ERROR
  • Change of status; from OLD to NEW
  • Actionable information
  • suggestions of actions to be carried out, e.g.:

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