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Use Alexa with Yardstick Anywhere

Enable the Yardstick skill in the Alexa app and link your Yardstick Anywhere account. Then ask Alexa what your robot is doing, send it home, or start a plan.

Where it lives: Find it in the Alexa app, Skills & Games Choose the robot in Settings → Alexa
The short version In the Alexa app, search Skills for Yardstick (or open the skill on Amazon) and tap Enable to use. Sign in to Yardstick Anywhere when it asks, choose your yard, and tap Link this yard. Then say "Alexa, open Yardstick".
Part of Premium Alexa comes with the Premium plan of Yardstick Anywhere, and with every free trial. On Basic, the card in Settings offers the upgrade instead.

Find the skill

The skill is called Yardstick. It is free to enable. You can find it two ways:

  1. In the Alexa app

    Open the Alexa app on your phone, tap More, then Skills & Games. Search for Yardstick and open it.

  2. On Amazon's website

    Open the Yardstick skill page on Amazon, signed in with the same Amazon account as your Echo.

The Yardstick skill on Amazon: its icon, Free to Enable, three example phrases, and the Get this Skill box.
The Yardstick skill on Amazon. The phrases in the speech bubbles are things you can say.

  1. Tap Enable to use

    Alexa opens a Yardstick Anywhere sign-in page. Sign in with your Yardstick Anywhere email, the same way you do on the website.

  2. Choose your yard and robot

    You see Link Yardstick Anywhere to Alexa. Under Robot, pick the robot Alexa should talk about, or leave it on Ask which robot when needed if you have more than one.

  3. Tap Link this yard

    Alexa says the account is linked. That is it.

The Link Yardstick Anywhere to Alexa page on a phone: the yard's name, a Robot list set to Ask which robot when needed, and the Link this yard and Cancel buttons.
The page Alexa opens for linking, as it looks on a phone.

Things to say

A few to start with. See every voice command, grouped by what you want to do.

"Alexa, open Yardstick"
Starts the skill; then ask your question.
"Alexa, ask Yardstick what is going on"
What your robot is doing, where it is working, its battery, and when it should finish.
"Alexa, tell Yardstick to send the robot home"
Sends it back to its dock. You can also pause it, or resume it.
Start a saved plan
Ask Yardstick to start one of your plans by its name. Alexa asks you to confirm before it starts.
Your schedule
Skip today's scheduled runs, or pause the schedule until a day you choose.

With more than one robot, Alexa asks which one, by the names your robots have in Yardstick Anywhere. To change the robot Alexa uses, or to unlink Alexa, go to Settings → Alexa on the website.

If it does not work

It says only a yard owner with Premium can link Alexa

Alexa is part of Premium, and only the yard's owner can link it. Sign in with the owner's email, or move the account to Premium in Settings → Subscription.

Alexa does not understand "Yardstick"

Say it clearly as one word, and start with "Alexa, open Yardstick". Check the skill is enabled on the same Amazon account as your Echo.

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