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Arduino => Arduino Projects => Topic started by: prb238 on July 21, 2014, 01:14:36 PM

Title: Arduino and Xbee project for Lawnbott
Post by: prb238 on July 21, 2014, 01:14:36 PM

I am about to start a project that will allow me to communicate wirelessly with my LB3200 Lawn robot using an Xbee Arduino board and an Xbee connected to my home computer.  The first step will be to control the buttons on the back of the robot panel via the home computer - On, Off, Pause, and Charge.  I can do this already via x10 and RF transmitters and receivers, but I want to use a different technology and a solution that is cheaper.

My second step will be to write an interface to an XML weather feed that will allow the robot to go into Pause mode by itself depending on the forecast for rain or also delay itself from going out automatically for a period of time after it has rained.  These settings will be set by the user - if the rain percentage forecast is over x%, then pause the robot, if it has rained recently, pause the robot for x hours or x days, etc.  And automatically unpause after those conditions/time periods have been satisfied.

Title: Re: Arduino and Xbee project for Lawnbott
Post by: RobotLady on August 04, 2014, 04:35:16 PM

Thanks for posting in our Arduino forum!  This will be a fun and exciting project.  I am sure there will be a lot of interest in this from LawnBott owners once it's done.  Looking forward to hearing more!

Robot Lady

Title: Re: Arduino and Xbee project for Lawnbott
Post by: Galactic on January 20, 2016, 04:15:32 AM

Yes like me! I had this post bookmarked when it came out and just thought I'd check in and see how the project went prb238? Maybe you could post an update.

Title: Re: Arduino and Xbee project for Lawnbott
Post by: RobotLady on February 26, 2016, 02:01:25 PM

Yes, I would like to know as well...  Hope to hear soon!  RobotLady