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The Scheduler: making Yarbo run on its own
Programs are how you tell Yarbo what to do, on which days, at what time. Yardstick starts them, watches them, and moves from one area to the next. Quiet hours sit over the top and are never crossed.
Where it lives
Open Schedule from the top navigation. Programs are on the left; No-go zones, Weather rules and Quiet hours are in the right column on wide screens. Activity starts closed. Open Lawn striping from the navigation for mowing direction (the screenshot shows the classic Scheduler layout).
Making a program
Name it
Whatever you will recognize later. Weekday mornings, Back field.
Choose how it repeats
Either on chosen days of the week, or every so many days if you would rather it came round on a cycle than on a calendar.
Set the start time
When it sets off. One start time per program.
Choose what it runs with
Under Runs with, tick Mower, Leaf blower and Snow blower as they apply. If a module that isn't ticked is attached when the program comes due, the run is skipped and the Activity list says why, so your mowing programs stay put while the snow blower is on. Every program starts with all three ticked.
Pick the areas, in order
Choose from the list on the left and drag to reorder. Yarbo does them one after another, returning to the dock in between if it needs to charge.
Choose how many times it runs
Under Runs, leave it at Once or pick 2 times to 5 times to run the whole list of areas that many times in a row. When the last plan finishes, the list starts again from the top. A program set to repeat shows Runs 2 times (up to 5) on its card.
Run now, skip next
Run now
Starts the program immediately, whatever the schedule says. For when the grass got away from you. Use Times beside it (from 1 to 5) to run the program more than once in a row. Run now stays bright yellow on a program that is switched off, so you can still start it by hand.
Skip next
Misses the next occurrence only. Rain forecast on Tuesday, back to normal after. To skip on the weather automatically, use a weather rule, below.
The switch
Turns a program off indefinitely without deleting it. You can still start a switched-off program by hand with Run now.
Running it more than once
A program can run 2 to 5 times in a row (Runs in the program editor), and so can anything you start from Run now, Quick run on the map, or Start on the Plans page (Times). When the last plan finishes, the list starts again from the top. Use it for mulching leaves on one area, or mowing everything twice.
Each pass follows the usual charging, quiet hours and weather rules. While a repeat run is out, the Schedule page shows which pass it is on, such as Pass 1 of 2, and Activity logs when each pass starts and finishes.
When the robot is already busy
If a program comes due while Yarbo is out on a job you started yourself, in the Yarbo app or from Yardstick, the program does not take the robot over. It waits its turn and starts once your job is done and the robot is back, however long that takes. The Activity list says why it is waiting.
Waiting to start
A waiting program shows on the Scheduler page under Waiting to start, with what it is waiting for.
Cancel
Press Cancel beside it if you would rather it did not run today. It runs again at its next scheduled time.
Stopping
While a program is out, Stop and send to dock on this page ends it and sends Yarbo home. End job or End job & go home on the Plans page, or Send to the dock or STOP on the phone page, does the same. Either way, the rest of that program is canceled, along with anything waiting to start, and the Activity list says so. Every program still runs at its next scheduled time.
Rainy days
A weather rule can keep your programs on the dock after rain, until the grass has had time to dry. The rules live in the Weather rules section of this page and need a weather source turned on in Settings → Weather.
Press New weather rule
Set the trigger: after this much rain, in inches, keep the rule in force for a number of hours after the rain, from 6 hours to 7 days. More rain while it is in force starts the count again.
Pick what it holds
Under Scheduled programs to hold, tick Every scheduled program or just the ones you choose. The same rule can close no-go zones too.
What a hold does
A held program is skipped for that day and runs again at its next scheduled time. It stops a program from starting, and from going back out after quiet hours, a charging break or between plans. You get a Rain hold on alert saying which rule is holding things and when the hold ends.
When rainfall cannot be read
If your weather source stops reporting, a rule cannot tell whether it rained, so the programs it holds are held to be safe. Each skipped run sends you an alert saying rainfall could not be read, so you can check the station. A program already out carries on, and pressing Start always runs a program by hand.
The full rule editor is described in Closing a zone after rain.
Seeing what is coming
Quiet hours
Quiet hours override everything else on the page. Yarbo will not start a job inside the window, and if the window begins while it is out working it returns to the dock and stays there.
When something did not run
Open Schedule, then click Activity to open the closed section. If your schedule skipped a run or stopped early, read the entry for the expected start time. For an offline robot, check the connection. For a rain hold, check Weather rules and the weather source. For a missing plan, check Plans.
Before you rely on it
It needs the computer on
Schedules run only while Yardstick is running, and a power cut or network drop can stop one firing. Do not treat scheduling as a safety feature. Yarbo’s own safety systems always take priority.
Only one scheduler at a time
Turning on Yardstick's Scheduler switches your Yarbo app schedules off, so the two never argue. While it is on, Yardstick checks again when it starts and each time you open this page, switches off any Yarbo app schedule that has come back on, and tells you which one. To switch back, turn off Yardstick’s scheduler first, then re-enable the schedules in the Yarbo app.
An offline robot is waited for
If your Yarbo is offline when a program is due, Yardstick waits up to 30 minutes for it and starts the program as soon as it is back, noting in the Activity list how late it started. If it stays offline the whole time, the run is skipped and you are told.
A deleted plan switches a program off
If a plan a program runs is deleted, Yardstick turns that program off and names the missing piece, rather than letting it come due and quietly do less than it says. Deleting a zone or dead end in the map editor keeps your plans intact, so it does not do this.
You hear when a program stops part way
If a program ends before all its zones have run, you get an alert that says so and names the zones that will not run this time.
Charging can be shorter
Turn on Go back out on a partial charge and a job that stops to charge goes back out as soon as it has enough for the rest, instead of waiting for a full battery. It covers your programs and plans you start from Yardstick (the Plans page or the phone page). A job started in the Yarbo app is left to the robot.