Luba Advanced Channel Mapping Technique 

I'm glad you found this useful enough to be wiling to try it! ...You never know how people will respond when you put stuff on the internet...

Wonderful to know I'm not crazy! Thanks for sharing! Let me know if your plan works. it's possible you will need to delete the channel and redo it and retest it to make it work. But I have no idea, we're sort of in "glitch" land, but I know that once it starts working, it's never stopped working. But yeah, if you could come back and say if you had to delete the channel or not that might helps others int eh same boat. I agree, they really need to let you make a channel on top of the other one and show it that way on the map!

@@HezekiahDomowski Alas, my testing of this was unsuccessful. But I have a weird topology. Your trick may hopefully work for others. I deleted the area close to the charger. The channel (following my concrete pathway) showed up again. And curiously, I can't find any way to DELETE a channel! Only by defining a NEW channel between the SAME areas. (And another wish I have on my list is to ALLOW multiple channels between areas, so we'd really need a DELETE CHANNEL capability. But I diverge.) I ran the Luba out to mow the connected area, aborted the mowing, and told her to recharge. She followed the channel/pathway perfectly both ways. I created two more channels for two more areas, along the SAME pathway back to the charger, and again sent Luba to mow and return on each of these. She behaved perfectly. But once I recreated the area closest to the charger, which is "over top of" these channels, the behavior changed. And Luba is now somewhat confused upon exiting the dock, now that I have three channels converging there. She eventually figures out the right way to go, but unfortunately doesn't follow the pathway to any of the three areas. Now the curious thing is that she DOES follow the very first channel that I created back to the charger. But not for the others. I'm thinking that I'm totally bamboozling the software by having three channels "on top" of one another, and then an area on top of all three. Anyway, it was a fun exercise, but didn't work for ME. Your mileage may vary.

@@HangarQueen so you'll need to delete the channels anyway to stop the odd driving. (you do that by tapping map, edit, finding the area and tapping the down arrow and you'll see channels and no go zones in that area. You can delete them individually.) I suspect that if you delete all the channels and retest it'll work.

@@HezekiahDomowski Dang, I never noticed that sneaky "down arrow" under the areas in map editing ... which as you say allows channel and no-go deletions. Thanks for the pointer. (And now I need to update my "Issues and Wishes" document, as it's currently suggesting that this capability is needed.) I'll see if I can find some time to get out there to delete and re-test later today. Thanks again.

You're welcome! Let me know!

You're welcome, I hope it works for you! If you could help me out with a vote, I'd really appreciate it. No personal info, just tap vote then tap it again after it says "success". I'm trying to get enough votes so mammotion can't ignore honest reviewers. cont.st/uZnrsv_nThtij?g=1

You cannot map channels until you map areas. I thought about making a beginners guide to mapping, but I felt like this is for advanced users who already have maps and understand the weird things Luba is doing. The beginner's guide is that you need to pick how many areas you divide your lawn into, then map the furthest area first, draw a channel, and let Luba use it both ways. Repeat in the order furthest-nearest, getting closer to the charger each time.

@@HezekiahDomowski Thanks for this. My Luba is due to arrive tomorrow and I will keep track of how I set things up. One of my channels will overlap with another but the end points are different so I don't foresee a problem on that front. I'm terribly excited about not having to mow the lawn regularly - fingers cross it all works well!

@@charleswheatcroft Enjoy! Overlapping channels should not be an issue, I've seen screenshots of that. It might be best to map zones as large as possible (but also 1 foot away from rocks/walls and let luba put down straight lines for you to use as a guide when you remap once you see what you'd like to change. Also you can us FPV to watch luba drive perimeter laps to see if it's going to hit something. You can pause it, take note of the percent complete, then end the task, edit map, and start another task using the "start percent" option to jump ahead to where the problem/edit is.

The drop down arrow. I can't leave pics in comments, but that's always the key people are missing. Go to edit, find the area that has the no-go zone, and tap the down arrow to see the channels and no-go zones in that area.