Yardstick for Yarbo: map editor, scheduler and live map

A Yarbo first

Fix your map on a screen, not in the yard

Every work zone, no-go area and pathway drawn over a real photo of your property, edited with a mouse on a full display, and saved straight back to the robot. Reshape a boundary, carve out a garden bed, redraw a whole zone. No one else lets you do it from a computer.

The Yardstick desktop map editor with a work area selected: its editable points highlighted on an aerial photo of the property, a layers panel of every zone type, and a backup and restore tray

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Much easier map editing, right on your desktop.

Draw on your yard

Automatic aerial photo underlay
Reshape any zone or boundary
Add or trim no-go areas
Split a zone in two, or join two into one

Save to the robot

Writes straight to the Yarbo
No phone app
Changes show up in the app
Map read back from the robot after saving

Automatic backups

Backup before every write
Restore an earlier map in a click
Nothing is overwritten blind
Your mowing plans backed up too

New in Yardstick

Schedule your whole yard, and it runs itself

Set the days and the times, and Yardstick sends your Yarbo out to mow, blow leaves or clear snow on its own. Chain areas to run back to back, set quiet hours it will never cross, and open and close no-go zones by time of day or after it rains. One place for everything the robot does on its own.

The Yardstick scheduler: a Next Run card showing tomorrow at 8am, a week-ahead timeline with each mow marked and quiet hours shaded, and mowing programs listed below

Set it once. Your whole yard runs itself.

And not just weekdays

Or every few days, like a sprinkler timer

Grass does not grow on a weekly calendar. Set a program to run every 2, 3, 7 or 30 days and Yardstick counts from a date you pick, the way an irrigation timer does. A run that quiet hours or the weather prevents is missed, not moved, so every third day stays every third day instead of sliding later each time something gets in the way. Mix the two freely: a daily pass on the front lawn and the back every third day, in the same schedule.

The New program dialog in both modes: on the left, weekdays picked with day buttons; on the right, Run every 2 days starting on a chosen date — Two ways to set when a program runs: pick the weekdays, or repeat every so many days from a date you choose.

The Yardstick scheduler showing a program that repeats every three days alongside one that runs daily, above the list of dates each one lands on — And what that produces: a daily program and an every-three-days program in one schedule, with the dates each one lands on.

Schedule the whole yard

Pick the days, or repeat every few days
Chain areas to run back to back
See the week at a glance

Quiet hours that always win

Set a curfew once
Robot returns to the dock on time
Overrides every schedule

Smart no-go zones

Close an area by time of day
Or automatically after it rains
Opens itself again once it is dry

The full scheduler: mowing programs, scheduled no-go zones and weather rules, each in its own labeled section — Mowing programs, scheduled no-go zones and weather rules — each in its own place.

New in Yardstick

Back out when it has enough, not when it is full

A big lawn does not fit in one charge, so your Yarbo goes home part way through to fill up. It just does not know how much work is left, and waits for the same charge whether twenty minutes of mowing remain or three hours.

Yardstick watched the first half, so it does know. It sends the robot back out the moment it is carrying enough to finish. On a job that is nearly done, that is 35% instead of 80%. Often hours earlier.

The Yardstick switch labeled Go back out on a partial charge, turned on, explaining that when a job stops to charge Yarbo goes back out as soon as it has enough for the part still to mow instead of always waiting for a full charge, never waits longer than it used to, and never leaves the dock below 35 percent — One switch, on the Scheduler page beside the programs it affects. On by default, and it can only ever bring a resume forward.

Enough to finish is enough to leave. Often hours earlier.

Sized to the job

Reads how much is actually left
Uses your machine’s own consumption
Gets sharper the more you mow

Never cuts it fine

Never leaves the dock below 35%
Carries a margin over the estimate
Waits for the old level if it cannot measure

Only ever earlier

Can bring a resume forward, never delay one
Applies to jobs Yardstick started
One switch on the Scheduler page

New in Yardstick

Every stripe in your yard, running the same way

Your Yarbo turns its mowing pattern a few degrees each time so the grass is not pressed down the same way twice. The catch is that it does that separately for every area, and each one keeps its own count. They drift apart. After a season your zones are all cutting at different angles, and you can see every seam where one meets the next.

Yardstick takes that job over. It holds one direction for the whole property and writes it to every area before the robot goes out, so the lines carry straight across your yard instead of stopping at each boundary. Pick the area everything else should follow, choose how far to turn after each run, and the entire property steps round together and stays in line as it goes.

The Yardstick mowing direction panel: a compass dial showing the property cutting at 348 degrees with parallel stripe lines drawn across it, a master area selector set to Zone 1 and 2, a row of turn amounts with 10 degrees chosen, and a confirmation that all 10 chosen areas are cutting the same way

One direction for the whole property. Every zone in step.

One direction, everywhere

Every area you pick cuts the same way
Set it from one master area
Zones you leave out are untouched

Turns without breaking rank

Steps round after each completed run
10°, 15°, 20°, 30° or 45°, or never
The whole yard moves as one

Puts itself back

Re-applied before every run
Corrects any zone the robot nudges
One click restores your originals

The list of areas on the property, each chosen zone showing the same 348 degree heading beside it, and the areas that were not chosen marked to be left alone — Every zone you choose, reading the same heading — and the ones you did not, left alone.

The problem

Your Yarbo forgets. Yardstick remembers.

Out of the box, a Yarbo tells you almost nothing after a job: no history, no honest map of what it actually covered, no warning when the fix is drifting or a battery cell is running hot. Yardstick reads the robot’s own telemetry on your network and keeps all of it, then hands it back as something you can understand at a glance.

What you get

The detail Yarbo collects, finally made visible

Coverage

Your whole yard, on a real photo of it

Yardstick pulls a satellite image of your property automatically and pins your coverage on top of it, to the centimeter. You do nothing. See exactly where the robot went, where it doubled back, and the patches it never reached. Not an estimate. What actually happened.

Depth

One map, read many different ways

The robot streams far more than position. Color the same yard by GPS accuracy, radio signal, terrain slope, cutting load, elevation, satellites. Twenty layers in all. A season of telemetry becomes a map you can act on.

Accuracy

The GPS truth nobody else surfaces

Satellites tracked versus used, the L2 dual-frequency count, correction age, the antenna baseline, and where the fix quietly dropped below centimeter-accurate, all parsed from a log the robot embeds but never shows you.

Health

Catch a failing battery cell months early

Every fault the chassis raises, the correction stream, the on-board computer, every firmware version, and the battery over time down to all six cell temperatures. A cell drifting hot shows up long before it strands the robot.

Control

Run its plans from a real screen

Start any of the robot’s work plans, pause it, and send it back to the dock, from a full-size screen and a real keyboard instead of a phone. Put plans on a weekly schedule and let Yardstick run them for you.

The Plans page: the robot’s saved work plans, each with a start button

Alerts

Know the moment something goes wrong

A robot that jams at seven in the morning is no use to anyone if nobody hears about it. Yardstick watches the telemetry and speaks up the instant a robot is stuck, off its map, or can’t find the dock, on screen, on your phone, or by email. Nothing routine; only what actually needs you.

An email the moment a robot needs a hand, with everything you need to decide

Impossible to miss on the wall display, named to the exact core

Twenty data layers

Eighteen ways to read the same yard

Pick a layer and the whole map re-colors, right down to the individual cell. Zoom all the way in and every reading is there to inspect: each dot is one patch of grass, each outline an obstacle your robot drove around.

A yard map zoomed to individual cells, with the robot and a trouble spot marked — Zoomed to the cell. Every dot is one patch of yard, shaded by the layer you pick. The green dot is the robot right now; the ring is a logged trouble spot.

Positioning & RTK

Position degraded
RTK quality
Correction age
Heading geometry
Heading quality

Satellites

Satellites
Satellites tracked
L2 satellites
Unused satellites
HDOP

Radio & link

Link to home base
Fell back to cellular

Terrain

Elevation
Slope

Cutting & hardware

Blade load
Ground speed
Wheel load gap

Safety

Obstacle detections

Nothing thrown away

Every cell, every measure, in one table

Behind the map is the raw record: every grid cell on your property, sorted worst-first, with each measure Yardstick captures on its own column. Passes, RTK quality, satellites, elevation, blade load, and the rest. The map is the picture; this is the receipt.

Every cell on the map, most degraded first, one column per measure

Yours to configure

Set it up the way you run your yard

Thirteen areas of settings sit behind one page. What gets recorded and how much, where it is stored and how it is backed up, which faults raise an alert and how you are told, who can reach the page and how, the wall display, the map imagery, cameras and your license. Sensible defaults out of the box, and every one of them is yours to change when you are ready.

Thirteen sections of settings, from recording and storage to alerts, access and the wall display

How it works

Three steps, then it just runs

Install

One download

A signed installer for Windows, or one command on a Mac or Linux box. It walks you through connecting to your Yarbo.

Record

It listens

Yardstick quietly records every job to a database on your own machine, with nothing to manage. Leave it on.

See

Open a browser

Open Central Command from any device on your network. The map fills in as the robot works: worth a look after the first job, worth trusting after a week.

Yours, and only yours

Your recordings never leave your machine

Every job Yardstick records is written to a database on your own computer and read back in your own browser. Coordinates, your yard outline, the names you gave your areas, all of it stays where you put it.

✓ Your recordings are never uploaded to us.
✓ No Yardstick account to create.
✓ Years of history, on a disk you control.
✓ It’s your data. Use it however you want.

The map is live

Watch the robot work and see every trouble spot

The map isn’t a report you wait for. A green dot tracks the robot in real time as it moves. The instant a spot gives it trouble, a degraded fix or a route home it couldn’t finish, it’s marked and numbered right on the map.

Live position (green) and highlighted trouble spots, right on the aerial

Real-time tracking, and nothing missed

The green dot is the robot, now. Leave the map open and watch it cover the yard live, or scrub back through any past session the same way.

Live position, updated as the robot drives
Trouble spots highlighted and numbered on the map
Click a spot in the list and the map jumps straight to it
Every degraded fix and failed route-home, caught and placed

Wall display

Put the whole yard on a TV

Open Yardstick on any spare TV, tablet, or monitor and leave it there. A big, read-it- from-across-the-room board of progress, battery, speed, time left and GPS lock, for the garage, the clubhouse, or the ops room. It goes full-screen on its own, needs no keyboard, and flips to a loud, impossible-to-miss alarm the moment a robot needs help.

It rotates between a big stats board and a live map of the yard — each robot a dot, with its own stats riding alongside.

The Yardstick wall display stats board on a TV — Progress, battery, speed, time left and GPS lock.

The Yardstick wall display live map, each robot a dot with its stats alongside — The live yard map — each robot a dot with live stats.

Plans

Start any plan, from any core

Every plan you’ve built in the Yarbo app is right here, ready to launch with one tap. On a multi-core site, a dropdown picks which core you’re sending. Then start the job, watch its progress live, and pause, resume or send it home, all from your own browser.

Pick a core, start the job

Choose the core from the dropdown, pick a plan, hit Start. The running job shows its progress, time left and battery, with pause, resume, and send-to-dock right there.

Select the core, then launch any plan, with live progress and controls

Every plan you built in the Yarbo app, each one tap from starting

Built for fleets

One Yarbo, or twenty. Yardstick runs them all

Golf courses, estates, campuses, sports fields, HOAs: if you run more than one Core, Yardstick handles the whole fleet out of the box. Name each machine, focus on one, or watch every core at once. No extra setup. No per-robot fee.

The whole fleet on one screen

Every core reports to the same Central Command. Pick one to dig into it, or leave it on all cores for the combined picture across every property you cover.

Name each core: “North Course”, “South Course”, the driving range
Per-core coverage, health, battery, plans and alerts
Alerts name the core, so you know exactly which one to walk out to
Add or retire a core in seconds, nothing to reconfigure

Central Command across every core, or one at a time

Manage the fleet: name, add or retire a core, from one place

Pricing

One simple price. Everything included.

One price a year turns your robot from a black box into something you can see, tune and control. No tiers, no add-ons, no features held back. Free updates while your license is active.

Yardstick · full access

$34.95/year

14-day free trial, no credit card

✓ A full desktop map editor: zones, no-go areas, paths and per-module settings
✓ The full coverage map and all 20 data layers
✓ Aerial imagery, health, battery and RTK diagnostics
✓ Alerts by screen, phone and email
✓ Plans, scheduling and the wall display
✓ One computer (Windows, Mac or Linux), unlimited robots / cores
✓ And much more…

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Cancel any time · one computer, unlimited robots / cores

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Questions

Good to know before you start

Why should I pay for this? What does it do that the Yarbo app doesn’t?

The Yarbo app shows you the moment; Yardstick remembers everything and turns it into something you can act on. It maps where your robot works well and where it struggles, warns you the instant something goes wrong, and gives you a full desktop map editor to fix problems in seconds. It runs on your own machine and plugs into Home Assistant. One price a year turns your robot from a black box into something you can see, tune and trust.

My robot struggles in the same spot every time. Can Yardstick show me why?

Yes, and this is the heart of it. Yardstick paints your whole yard as a coverage map across 20 data layers, so the trouble spot you keep noticing stops being a mystery. You can see the patch under a tree where the precise GPS fix drops and the robot falls back to a rougher signal, the corner where it loses its lock, the place it slows or reroutes. Problems the app never records, and that you would otherwise only guess at, become a picture you can point to and fix by trimming a branch, moving the antenna, or drawing a no-go zone.

Can I edit my map and fix bad routes from my computer?

Yes. Yardstick has a full desktop map editor: draw and adjust work zones, no-go areas and travel paths, and set per-module options for the mower, leaf blower or SAM, all with a mouse on a real screen. The fiddly things that take forever on a phone, like nudging a boundary back off a flower bed or splitting one overgrown zone into two, take seconds.

Can I get my stripes to line up across the whole yard?

Yes, and this is one people ask for by name. Yarbo turns its mowing pattern a few degrees after each run so the grass is not pressed the same way twice, but it counts separately for every area, so over a season your zones drift out of step and you can see a seam wherever two of them meet. Yardstick sets one direction for the whole property and steps every area round together, by however much you choose. It is set in Yardstick, not in the map editor, and applies on the next scheduled run.

Will it tell me when something goes wrong?

Yes, by on-screen banner, phone and email. Yardstick watches for the things you would otherwise find out about hours later: the robot stuck or stranded in the yard, unable to get back to its dock, a battery running low far from home, a lost GPS fix, or a firmware change. You hear about it when it happens, not when you walk outside.

Does it work with Home Assistant or my smart home?

Yes. Yardstick can feed your robot’s live status, battery, position and alerts into Home Assistant, so you can put it on a dashboard or build automations around it: pause on rain, get a notification when a job finishes, whatever you like. The data is yours to use however you want.

Where does my data go?

Nowhere. Yardstick records to a database on your own machine and shows it in your own browser. Your coordinates, your map, your recordings and the names you gave your areas are never uploaded to us, and there is no Yardstick account to create. You sign in with the Yarbo account you already have, and those credentials stay on your own computer.

Which robots does it work with?

A Yarbo 2024 or newer Core, with any of its modules: mower, snow blower, leaf blower or SAM. Yardstick reads the robot’s own telemetry, so it records and maps whatever attachment is on. You also need a Yarbo Data Center, the base station that comes with the robot.

What do I need to run it?

A computer running Windows, Mac or Linux. Something always-on (a mini-PC, a spare laptop, a Raspberry Pi) is ideal, since it records while the robot works.

Can I try it, and what does it cost?

Yes, a full 14-day trial, every feature, no credit card. After that it is one simple price, $34.95 a year, with everything included: no tiers, no add-ons, and free updates while your license is active. Cancel any time.

How do I cancel, or change my card?

Yes, from Stripe's own billing page at yardstickhome.com/manage. Enter the email address you paid with and Stripe emails you a sign-in link, so there is no password and you do not need Yardstick installed. That means it still works if the computer is gone. Canceling takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for, so you keep what you bought, and nothing is deleted: your recordings stay on your own disk.

Start seeing what your Yarbo really does.

Install it, let it record one job, and open the map. The rest speaks for itself.

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