Yardstick — Home Assistant integration

Brings your Yarbo into Home Assistant as a first-class Yardstick integration, with its own name and logo, discovered automatically. It talks only to Yardstick running on your own network. Yardstick in turn reaches the robot through your Yarbo account, the same way the Yarbo app does, so it needs Yardstick signed in and online. (A Yarbo firmware update in September 2026 closed the local connection Yardstick used to make, which is why earlier versions of this page said "no cloud".)

What you get

One device per robot, branded Yardstick, with live entities:

• Battery (%)
• Activity — Working / Standby / Charging / Returning to dock
• RTK signal — Fixed / Float / …
• Fault code
• Online and Charging (binary)

More (the robot on the map, controls) follows.

Requirements

• Yardstick 0.7.21 or newer running on your network, with an active licence.
• Home Assistant 2024.8 or newer.

Install

HACS (recommended once published)

Add this repository to HACS as a custom repository (category: Integration), install Yardstick, and restart Home Assistant.

Manually

Copy custom_components/yardstick/ into your Home Assistant config folder so you have config/custom_components/yardstick/…, then restart Home Assistant.

Set it up

After restarting, Home Assistant should discover Yardstick on its own and show "Yardstick found — set up?" under Settings → Devices & Services. Accept it.

If it does not auto-discover (some networks block mDNS), add it by hand: Settings → Devices & Services → Add Integration → Yardstick, and enter the address of the computer running Yardstick (for example 192.168.1.250, port 8477).

Notes

• The integration is read-only for now and polls Yardstick every 15 seconds.
• If the Yardstick licence lapses, Home Assistant will say a licence is required.