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Guide Aerial Photo
If your server's operator switched it on (Aerial photo under the map), the mower page can show an aerial photo of your garden under the map, so you see areas, no-go zones, the mower's track and missed spots on the real lawn.
- Open a mower. Under the map, in the layer strip, choose Luftbild. The map turns north up and the photo appears under the outlines.
- With the photo on, a slider Deckkraft appears: lower it to make the outlines and heat layers stand out, raise it to see the lawn better.
- Choose Luftbild again to go back to the metric grid.
The choice and the opacity are remembered on this device. The credit of the photo's source is shown at the lower edge of the map while it is on. The photo is an aerial survey and may be a year or more old; trees, beds and furniture may have moved. If a tile is missing or the photo does not cover your address, the map simply stays on the grid.
You do not see the toggle if your server has no photo source configured or the mower has not published its map yet.
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Decisions (ADR)
- Architecture decisions
- ADR 0001: OpenFGA instead of self-built authorization
- ADR 0002: Self-built Identity service in FastAPI instead of Keycloak or Zitadel
- ADR 0003: SvelteKit for the web app
- ADR 0004: Monorepo with a uv workspace
- ADR 0005: AGPL-3.0 for services and apps, Apache-2.0 for libraries
- ADR 0006: PostgreSQL for all persistence, no SQLite
- ADR 0007: NATS JetStream as event bus
- ADR 0008: Traefik as gateway
- ADR 0009: Command and event envelopes, subject naming and de-duplication
- ADR 0010: Python 3.13 for all services and libraries
- ADR 0011: Separate GPL-3.0 package for the PyMammotion adapter
- ADR 0012: Mower control interface and safety rules
- ADR 0013: Device-Gateway registry, sharding and per-mower concurrency
- ADR 0014: Authorization model, tuple ownership and the mowdeck-authz client
- ADR 0015: Tokens, sessions and key rotation
- ADR 0016: Fleet commands and authorization per command kind
- ADR 0017: Telemetry storage and retention
- ADR 0018: Realtime WebSocket protocol
- ADR 0019: Mammotion adapter transports, manual drive and secrets
- ADR 0020: Web app architecture
- ADR 0021: Browser authentication flow
- ADR 0022: Notifications: rules, recipients and delivery
- ADR 0023: Map rendering and projection
- ADR 0024: Scheduler: recurrence, rain pause and command issuing
- ADR 0025: Home Assistant integration as a pure API client
- ADR 0026: Manual drive channel over the Realtime WebSocket
- ADR 0027: Health history and theft alarm
- ADR 0028: Entitlements: plans as data and enforcement
- ADR 0029: Helm chart and release pipeline
- ADR 0030: Mowing patterns as plug-ins and the Planner
- ADR 0031: Billing with a Stripe adapter
- ADR 0032: Live camera over Agora, joined directly by the browser
- ADR 0033: Vision-assisted recovery with human approval
- ADR 0034: Linked cloud accounts and device discovery
- ADR 0035: Server-side camera frames and automatic AI analysis on errors
- ADR 0036: Native app shells with Capacitor, loading the web app from the server
- ADR 0037: Camera panorama calibration in the browser, with the AI supplying points only
- ADR 0038: Dual link per mower and firmware updates
- ADR 0039: Spot mowing by MowDeck-driven paths
- ADR 0040: Link heartbeat for online status
- ADR 0041: Spot runs from the dock: undock, transit and return
- ADR 0042: Drive calibration
- ADR 0043: Turn styles
- ADR 0044: Drive view with camera
- ADR 0045: Camera relay
- ADR 0046: Device settings as capabilities
- ADR 0047: The RTK base station as a Fleet device
- ADR 0048: Maintenance commands
- ADR 0049: Manual driving over the Mammotion cloud
- ADR 0050: Passkeys and the app login hand-off
- ADR 0051: Sign in with GitHub
- ADR 0052: Sign in with Apple
- ADR 0053: Retention and downsampling of the position track
- ADR 0054: Aerial photo under the mower map
- ADR 0055: Deploy maintenance window
- ADR 0056: Camera photo in push notifications for errors and theft alarms
- ADR 0057: Step-up re-authentication for critical actions
- ADR 0058: Theft tracking mode
- ADR 0059: iOS widgets and the mowing Live Activity
- ADR 0060: Apple Watch app
- ADR 0061: Mowing angle rotation
- ADR 0062: Setup tour for new users
- ADR 0063: Matter server (mowers in Apple Home and Google Home)
- ADR 0064: Personal access tokens and the public API documentation
- Development
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Operations
- Operating the Compose stack
- Operating MowDeck on Kubernetes (Helm)
- Building the Bluetooth bridge (ESPHome on a XIAO ESP32-S3)
- Releases
- Billing operations
- Telemetry: retention and position downsampling
- iPhone and Android apps
- Passkeys
- Sign in with GitHub
- Aerial photo under the map
- Sign in with Apple
- Theft tracking mode
- Matter server
- Source code offer (AGPL-3.0 section 13)
- Spikes
- Guides
- API reference
- Original plan (German)