Where does Windriver printf

[omsahmad]

So I know you can setup smartdashboard or DriverStationLCD, but where does Windriver print a line if you just put in the following (as seen in vision example):

if(scoreCompare(scores[i], false))
{
printf("particle: %d is a High Goal centerX: %f centerY: %f \n", i, report->center_mass_x_normalized, report->center_mass_y_normalized);
printf("Distance: %f \n", computeDistance(thresholdImage, report, false));
} else if (scoreCompare(scores[i], true)) {
printf("particle: %d is a Middle Goal centerX: %f centerY: %f \n", i, report->center_mass_x_normalized, report->center_mass_y_normalized);
printf("Distance: %f \n", computeDistance(thresholdImage, report, true));
} else {
printf("particle: %d is not a goal centerX: %f centerY: %f \n", i, report->center_mass_x_normalized, report->center_mass_y_normalized);
}
printf("rect: %f ARinner: %f \n", scores[i].rectangularity, scores[i].aspectRatioInner);
printf("ARouter: %f xEdge: %f yEdge: %f \n", scores[i].aspectRatioOuter, scores[i].xEdge, scores[i].yEdge);
}
printf("\n");

DriverStationLCD is pretty limited and I am still figuring stuff in SmartDashboard.

Thanks.

[Tanaythan]

Printf's go to the NetConsole for cRio or to the target console that can be accessed from Windriver. NetConsole is much more convenient as it does not go away when the cRio reboots; if you enabled NetConsole with your cRio imaging tool, I highly recommend the use of NetConsole. You can monitor all printfs from there.

[omsahmad]

Printf's go to the NetConsole for cRio or to the target console that can be accessed from Windriver. NetConsole is much more convenient as it does not go away when the cRio reboots; if you enabled NetConsole with your cRio imaging tool, I highly recommend the use of NetConsole. You can monitor all printfs from there.

Awesome, thanks

[bob.wolff68]

Just be careful of sending a printf() in your while(IsOperatorControl()) loop. The frequency of such a thing is very high and will quickly swamp the network/cRio etc. Often we will use a static int counter or a timer.HasPeriodPassed(500) to only allow a printf to occur a few times per second.

bob

[rbmj]

Just be careful of sending a printf() in your while(IsOperatorControl()) loop. The frequency of such a thing is very high and will quickly swamp the network/cRio etc. Often we will use a static int counter or a timer.HasPeriodPassed(500) to only allow a printf to occur a few times per second.


^This. Another good option is to printf() in a separate task that sleeps for 100ms or so every loop - we did this for our DriverStationLCD stuff and any printf()s we needed for debugging last year.