How do I get my Yarbo to stop mowing at night? I scheduled it to mow my main area between 6:00 and 22:00 over two days, but it keeps mowing past 10pm anyway. I have to manually stop it. I’m tired of babysitting this robot all the time. Why doesn’t it follow the scheduled time limits?
Can you post a screenshot of your schedule? I setup a schedule today from 2PM to 5PM GMT-4 for Thursday on repeat. At 5PM it went back to the dock to my surprise. I had heard that it would keep mowing until the plan finished. I hit resume and it went back out and finished without issue.
There’s a discussion of this on FB as some of us try to figure out the scheduler, worth a look and maybe discuss there until we figure this out:
FB Group: Official Yarbo Support & Solutions
Post: Tom Campbell - April 24, 2025 9:47pm US Eastern
Here’s what’s in the KB Article regarding stop time:
- The work plan in the schedule is still being executed when Yarbo reaches the end time, and it will return to recharge when the work plan is completed.
Given the grammar, it almost wants to say X and ends saying Y.
It says the opposite of your experience, @bryan.wheeler.
In that post I described what I thought was happening and really should be, and how to test it to be sure. I don’t know if the OP tried it.
Bottom line the stop time has no real purpose if the Work Plan isn’t paused at that time and then resumed at the next Start time for that schedule (not restarted, but resumed).
Ken, yeah it surprised me when it went back. I am pretty sure even Yarbo said in that post that it will continue until the plan is finished. If not that post, others. Maybe it was a fluke that mine did that or maybe it’s a fluke that it doesn’t. Not sure which. Maybe @Yarbo-Forum can get some clarity on that for us.
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It keeps mowing past 10pm. If I pause it by pressing “charge” it stops for the night, but the next morning it starts back at the beginning of the plan, not where it left off. I have to manually advance it to the level of completion from the previous day’s mowing. Too much hassle!
@brysach2 - If this is how it’s working for you, yep, it’s not the right thing IMO, way too much hassle.
So, basically, your Work Plan finishes when it finishes. On FB the OP has a 30-hour Work Plan. I’ve asked if he can break it up if he can’t mow past a certain hour, but if the Scheduler worked the way I thought it did with pause end time and resume at next Schedule time, both of you would be fine. Nope.
Except @bryan.wheeler - his seems to work the way we’d want…? LOL!
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After checking with our development team, Yarbo is designed to stop operation and return to the docking station once the scheduled end time is reached.
If it does not stop as scheduled, it may require further investigation. We recommend that you submit a support ticket and provide the estimated timestamp when the issue occurred, so we can assist you more efficiently.
Please also note that once the operation stops, Yarbo will not resume the previous plan in the next scheduled window. Instead, it will start a new work plan.
We are actively working on optimizing this feature.
Thank you for your understanding and support.
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Apologies for the incorrect information in the KB article. We will update and correct the content as soon as possible.
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Thank you for the follow-up @Yarbo-Forum. This is the related FB post. I put a TL;DR comment in there with how I “thought” this works, probably how it “should” work to help with use cases here and the original FB post’s 30 hour Work Plan.
My workaround the failure-to-return problem is to just schedule the first day of a long plan and leave the next couple of days open. At bedtime select “recharge” and that will bring Yarbo in for the night because it won’t resume on its own. Then in the morning I press “resume”. I haven’t figured out how to pause the plan if its already on the charger, though.
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