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Area settings: how each zone is worked
Every work area carries its own settings, and a different set for each attachment. Pathways, patrol lines and dead ends have settings too. Yardstick edits them from the map editor, so you can tune a zone without walking out to the robot.
Where it lives
Open the map editor, click a work area, pathway, patrol line or dead end to select it, then press Settings in the toolbar.
Pick the attachment first
Each area holds a separate set of settings for the mower, the snow blower, the leaf blower and SAM. The dot marks the one attached right now. Change the module and you are editing a different set of numbers, so check the row at the top before you start.
What you can set
Speed and spacing
How fast it moves through the area and how far apart the passes are.
Route pattern and turning
Parallel or spiral, U-turn or smart turn.
Route Angle
The direction this area is cut in. The slider moves one degree at a time, or type the exact angle in the box beside it. To set one direction across the whole property, see Mowing direction.
Edge behavior
Whether it works the edges of the area at all, and how many times round.
Attachment specifics
Blowing speed and reverse blowing for the leaf blower, blade height and speed for the mower, and so on. The dialog shows only what applies to the module you picked.
Work twice
Cover the area twice in one session.
Getting a change to the robot
Apply settings
Holds the change on the map with your other edits. The Save changes button shows a red dot, and nothing reaches the robot until you press it.
Apply & save now
Does both in one step, for the usual case of changing one zone.
Only what you changed
Yardstick sends just the settings you changed, then reads each one back from the robot. If the robot did not keep one, it names it: Saved, but the robot did not keep these settings. Settings you didn't touch are left exactly as they are on the robot.
Dead ends
A dead end has two settings, the same as in the Yarbo app: Mowing height and Moving speed. There is no attachment row; the settings are for the mower.
The M1 mower and the Mower Pro
The two mowers keep some settings differently, and Yardstick follows whichever mower your robot has. It recognizes the mower from what the robot reports, and remembers it while another attachment is fitted.
Obstacle avoidance
Gentle contact, Moderate bypass or Sensitive bypass, and Boundary Obstacle Avoidance, are saved where your mower reads them, so a change shows in the Yarbo app.
No Ultrasonic switch on the M1
The M1 has no ultrasonic sensor, so the switch is not shown for it.
Mowing height
Each mower turns the robot’s height setting into inches differently, and Yardstick uses the right one. The M1 goes down to 1.2 in; the Mower Pro to 0.8 in. Both go up to 4.0 in. Fall Cleanup and Spring Up use the same heights.
These travel with a map backup
Yarbo’s own map backups hold the outlines only, not the settings. So Yardstick keeps a copy of every zone’s settings with each backup it takes. Restore a backup and Yardstick compares: if some zones now have different settings from when the backup was made, it asks Put the zone settings back? Tick the ones you want and press Put these back; each one is checked on the robot. Backups made before Yardstick kept settings restore the map only.