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Can I edit my Yarbo map on a computer?

Yes, with Yardstick. Your zones, no-go areas and pathways on a full display, edited with a mouse, saved straight back to the robot.

The short answer Yes. Yardstick's map editor draws every work area, no-go zone, pathway and boundary over an aerial photograph of your property, on a computer screen, and writes your changes back to the robot. The changes then show up in the Yarbo app like any other edit.

Why this is worth wanting

Reshaping a boundary on a phone, outdoors, on the actual grass, is a chore. The same edit with a mouse on a large screen takes a fraction of the time and is far more precise.

It is also the only way to do some things comfortably at all: carving a garden bed out of the middle of a zone, splitting one zone into two, joining two into one, or trimming a boundary by a foot along its whole length.

The map editor: a work area selected on an aerial photo of a property, with its editable points shown, a layer list, and a backups tray.
The map editor. Every layer down the left, the yard in the middle, backups down the right.

What you can change

Nothing is written blind A backup of the current map is taken before every write, and the map is read back from the robot afterwards so you can see what it actually stored. If an edit is not what you wanted, restore the backup.

What you need

  1. A Yarbo 2024 or newer

    With any of its modules: mower, snow blower, leaf blower or SAM.

  2. A computer that stays on

    Windows, macOS, or Debian, Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi. Yardstick runs on your own machine, on your own network.

  3. Your Yarbo account

    The map editor signs in to Yarbo with the account you already use in the app. That sign-in is what lets it read and write your map.

Yardstick is an independent tool for Yarbo robots, not affiliated with or endorsed by Yarbo Inc.

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