Android to RoboRIO Communication
 

Hello all,

My team has decided to see what is necessary to use an Android Phone for vision tracking and sending the target information to the RoboRIO. We have been looking through the RIOdroid library (https://github.com/Spectrum3847/RIOdroid). ADB installs fine on the RIO, however, there is a program called SOCAT which is used for port forwarding and virtualization which refuses to install saying that the architecture is incompatible. When we attempt to install it on a RIO with last years image on it, the installer works fine. We have tried downloading various versions of SOCAT, but all of them fail with the same message. Are there any other communication protocols that can be used between Android and the RoboRIO? All help would be appreciated!

Re: Android to RoboRIO Communication
 

The RioDroid library link provided does not work. the ")" counts as part of the link.

The proper link is this

Re: Android to RoboRIO Communication
 

We have been able to communicate with an android phone using RIOdroid without using SOCAT. By running "adb reverse tcp:3000 tcp:3000" on the roboRIO you can establish a tcp connection between the roboRIO and the phone, so that connecting to 127.0.0.1 on port 3000 on the phone will connect you to port 3000 on the RIO.

Re: Android to RoboRIO Communication
 

Could I get some a snippet of what that code looks like? Also does that mean that everything else from the RIOdroid library is functional? Finally, was this tested on the 2017 image of the RIO?

Re: Android to RoboRIO Communication
 

Here is our code that does this on the RIO and you can look inside the vision folder for the rest of our code that handles the connection on the roboRIO (it is almost entirely a copy of 254's code from last year). This is all we have used the library for so I cannot comment on whether the rest is working, however this is enough to send messages back and forth between the RIO and a phone. We have this all set up and working on the 2017 image of the RIO as well.

Re: Android to RoboRIO Communication
 

Thank you so much!!