Version vom 21. November 2020, 12:20 Uhr

Piardu Help

Main Menu

If you click on the ardumower logo you can see the info page.

Click on Power Off is the normal shutdown of the mower: Console is saved, Raspberry PI start to shutdown and after 1 minute all the PCB is power OFF.

All other icons are explicit.

Auto Page

It's the initial start menu.

You can check here in the status bar the exact mode of mower

Date and time need to change each 1 seconde and loop/sec each 500 ms if everything is OK.

Start icon start mower in automatic mode with the MOW PATTERN selected (AREA NR option are ignored)

Stop All icon immediatly stop mower.

Home icon send mower to station

Track icon send mower to an other mowing area (work only with wifi sender and RFID option), Mower reach the perimeter wire and track until find RFID tag for new area and use MOW PATTERN selected

Manual page

Icons use to drive mower manually (Perimeter wire is not check)

STOP only stop drive and STOP ALL stop all mower and reset all error

You can use a PS4 remote control to drive mower over Bluetooth

If checked you can use a remote keyboard to drive.

m --> Start Blade
q --> Stop Blade
Up --> Forward
Down --> Reverse
Right --> Turn right
Left --> Turn left
Space --> Stop all

Setting Page

It's better to use ARDUREMOTE for general setting but you can find here an other access to simple setting.

Main setting

All page are store on tab item :

The Main Tab is the most important, You can here change main option of mower like Use Timer for example

Change are only validate if you click on send to mower, Be careful, all Setting change including other tab (perimeter,imu etc..), are send to mower

If you want that your change are here on the next mower restart, you need to click on Save setting into RTC eeprom.

It's also possible to save all setting on the raspberry file and restore it later using Save setting To File and Read setting from File.

You can control the WIFI and RFID here ,so it's possible,(For example if use a screen and NO WIFI) to deactivate WIFI or Bluetooth.

Simple Setting

Here some example of the other setting TAB, nothing particular except in the Perimeter and ByLane page.

DUE Firmware Update

You can upload a new version of AZURITBER in DUE using this button.

On your PC load source code into arduino IDE an simply compile it, at the end of compilation look at the penultimate line, you can find the directory where IDE compiler store the bin file named.

Locate this directory and use VNC to transfert file ardumower.ino.bin from your PC to Raspberry PI ,Under folder Piardumower/

Perimeter Setting

Here you can find new button use to start and stop other area sender

IP adress of area 2 and area 3 sender need to be set into config.py file.

ByLane Setting

Here you can find 2 buttons Next Lane and Next Roll Dir used to change behaviour when ByLane mowing

Start and Stop Button are used to automatically refresh the frame