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Driveway sweep

Clear your driveway with the leaf blower. One click on the driveway in the map editor draws the whole route and makes a plan you can run.

Where it lives: Draw it in Map editor → Driveway sweep Run or remove it in Plans
The short version In the map editor, select your driveway and press Driveway sweep. Check the route, press Add to map, then Save changes. A plan named for the driveway appears on the Plans page. Attach the leaf blower and start it there or in the Yarbo app.

It works the same in the installed Yardstick and in Yardstick Anywhere. Your driveway must already be a work area on your map. Driveway sweep works on any long, narrow driveway with two ends: straight, curved, or circular, coming in from the road and going back out to it. It supports turns of up to 60° at any one point. It refuses a driveway that is too short, or one that turns more than 60° at one point, and says so.

Driveway sweep on a straight driveway, a circular one and one with a 60 degree bend, and a 90 degree turn that is too sharp.
Straight, curved or circular: any turn up to 60° works. Sharper than that, use the leaf blower's normal blowing.

Draw the sweep

  1. Open the map editor and select your driveway

    Click the driveway on the map, or find it in the Shapes list. Any attachment can be on the robot while you do this.

  2. Press Driveway sweep

    The button is under Selected shape. Yardstick finds the middle of the driveway and draws the route straight away.

The map editor with Garage Driveway selected and the Driveway sweep button under Selected shape.
Driveway sweep, under Selected shape, with the driveway selected.

  1. Check the route

    You see four small areas at the corners of the driveway and the pathways that join them: a way in to area 1, up the left side to area 2, across at the road end to area 3, down the right side to area 4, and a way out. The pathways have the leaf blower on. Orange marks the blowing direction, toward the middle of the driveway.

A driveway on the map with the sweep drawn on it: corner areas, pathways along both sides, and orange blowing direction lines.
The sweep drawn on a driveway. Orange is the blowing direction.

  1. Choose the plan name and speeds

    The bar above the map names the plan after your driveway; change it if you like. Pick the Blowing speed and Moving speed, then press Add to map. Cancel leaves everything as it was.

The Driveway sweep bar: a description of the route, the plan name, Blowing speed, Moving speed, Add to map and Cancel.
The Driveway sweep bar.

  1. Press Save changes

    Nothing reaches the robot until you save. Yardstick backs up your map first, sends the areas and pathways, and then makes the plan once the robot has saved them.

The map editor's Save changes button, showing how many changes are waiting.
Save changes shows how many changes are waiting to be sent.

Run it

  1. Attach the leaf blower

    The leaf blower only has to be on when the plan runs, not while you draw it.

  2. Start the plan

    Open Plans and press Start beside the plan named for your driveway, or start it in the Yarbo app. Before the first run, look at the plan in the Yarbo app to check the route.

Drawing it again replaces it Press Driveway sweep on the same driveway again (for example after you change the driveway's shape) and the new sweep replaces the old one when you save, plan included. Nothing piles up.

Remove it

  1. Open the plan's menu

    On the Plans page, press ··· beside the driveway sweep plan and choose Remove driveway sweep.

  2. Confirm

    Yardstick says what will go: the plan, its four areas and its five pathways. It backs up your map and plans first. Your driveway itself stays exactly as it was. To have the sweep back, draw it again in the map editor.

The Plans page with a driveway sweep plan's menu open, showing Rename, Edit areas, Delete and Remove driveway sweep.
Remove driveway sweep in the plan's menu. Delete removes only the plan and leaves the areas on the map.
A plan a program runs If a program on the Schedule page uses the plan, take it out of the program first. Remove driveway sweep says so and changes nothing until you do.

If it does not work

  1. "Too short for a driveway sweep"

    The shape is too small. Driveway sweep is for driveways, not small paved areas.

  2. "Turns more than 60° at one point"

    The driveway bends too sharply. Use the leaf blower's normal blowing for that one.

  3. "Could not find a center line"

    The shape needs two ends, like a driveway. A round or square area has none.

  4. "The plan was not made"

    The areas or their leaf blower settings did not save. Check the map editor for anything still unsaved and press Save changes again, or make the plan on the Plans page.

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