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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

  • Reshape any work area, no-go zone, pathway or boundary by dragging its points, and add or remove points anywhere along an edge.
  • Add a no-go zone around something new, or delete one drawn for something that has since moved.
  • Split one zone into two, or combine two into one.
  • Work over a real aerial photograph of your property, so the shapes line up with the beds and paths you can see.
Nothing is written blind Yardstick requests a safety backup before saving and reports whether it succeeded, was skipped, or stopped the save. After a partial failure, earlier writes may already be stored. Yardstick reads the map back and retains unrelated edits where possible. If the map is stale, restore the connection and choose Reload before saving again. Check the named shapes and settings before retrying. To undo a saved edit, restore an available backup. See Saving for the recovery steps.

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.

Related

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Using the map editor

The full guide: selecting, reshaping, saving.

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Map backups

Check the safety backup result, keep snapshots and restore one.

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