Waypoints Feature Enhancement

Suggestion and Feature Requests
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The new Waypoints feature for SAM was highly anticipated. But when I went to use it today, it does not do what I had been expecting at all.

Here is a real-world scenario that I would love to use Waypoints for…

I want to use Yarbo to pull a garden cart to the front yard to collect the debris from trimming the hedges.

  • I go into the app, and select a PREDEFIINED Waypoint for the front yard that Yarbo autonomously pulls the cart to, then stops.
  • When the yard work is done, it’s time to dump the yard waste. Select another pre-defined Waypoint, and Yarbo pulls the cart over to the yard waste disposal area so I can dump it.
  • Now it’s time to store the cart in the barn. You guessed it… Another Waypoint. Yarbo pulls the cart to the barn, and I remove the cart for storage. Then I tell Yarbo to go recharge, and it zips back to the dock.

So in summary, we need the ability to SAVE pre-defined Waypoints in the app that Yarbo will drive to upon command. The current implementation only allows a one-time map selection that does not save.

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This was part of the original request - defining Waypoints and then sending the rover there (“Send” or “Summon”).

“Come to my phone,” too.

I had also floated the idea of a railroad-like setup where there would be Waypoints along some kind of Pathway where the rover would stop and you could resume when ready. Imagine someone hauling water to water plants around the yard. Or hauling my firewood up to the house.

There’s any number of variations to the Waypoint feature, yeah. I saw the feature we have now as first stab.

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Does Yarbo see it that way to do they think this is feature complete?

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I believe they see this as phase 1. There’s a lot in the back log.

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I hope they don’t consider this initial iteration as being “done”. It’s a great idea; this 1.0 version is simply not really feature complete.

My concern is that they will not quickly iterate Waypoints due to their focus being on other areas.

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Release 8 is around the corner and supposedly has some big stuff in it. All we can do is hope that more features like additional waypoint features are included. Maybe @Yarbo-Forum can determine if it’s on the near term roadmap. They typically don’t like to promise dates in case they need more time to flesh it out.

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Thanks for sharing your real-world use case and thoughtful suggestion. This kind of feedback is incredibly valuable, and I’ll be sure to pass it along to our product team for consideration.

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Can you confirm that feature enhancements to Waypoints are in the backlog? And can you provide any specifics? Thanks.

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Thank you for your question.

At the moment, we do not have a confirmed roadmap for the waypoint-related feature enhancements you mentioned, as our product team has not yet completed their evaluation of these ideas.

That said, I’ll be sure to keep you updated once the evaluation is complete or if there are any developments.

Thanks again for your interest and feedback!